Records of Ashurst Morris Crisp, 1685-1999, including partnership agreements; financial records; copy-out letters; client papers, including Fairey Aviation Company Limited and White Waltham Airfield; press cuttings; papers relating to firm's history; staff salary books; correspondence concerning staff matters; papers relating to Ashmor Musical Society; photographs of company dinners and functions; plans and deeds relating to firm's offices at Throgmorton Avenue; papers concerning the Ashurst, Morris and Crisp families.

Records of Associated British Foods Pension Scheme's trustees, which include:

• the Trustees of Allied Bakeries Limited Pension Scheme,

• the Trustees of George Weston Holdings Limited Pension Scheme,

• the Trustees of Associated British Foods Pension Scheme, and

• Associated British Foods Pension Trustees Limited.

These include the corporate records of the trustees, records of the scheme's administration, finance and property management, and publicity material.

Records for ABF's other pension schemes, namely the senior management pensions schemes of ABF and Allied Bakeries, the Weston Life Assurance scheme and the Allied Bakeries Limited 'Q' Pension Scheme.

Records of G.W.H. Properties Limited, who managed the property of ABF Pension Scheme's trustees.

Records of the Weston Provident Fund.

Records relating to the administration of pension schemes of ABF's subsidiary companies, including the British Sugar pension schemes, the Crazy Prices Pension and Life Assurance Scheme, the D.E. Longe and Company Limited Pension Fund, and the 'Small Pension Funds', which includes the pension schemes of Thomas Burton Limited, Coxes Lock Milling Company Limited, S. Edwards and Sons Bishops Storford Limited, Gilliatt and Sons Limited, S. Healing and Sons Limited, Hipwell and Sons Limited, Andrew G Kidd Limited, J G and B Thompson Limited, William King Limited, Witherington and Over Brothers Limited and Yorkshire's Ideal Flour Mill Limited.

Records of Associated British Foods Trustee Company of Ireland Limited, which acted as trustees for ABF's pension schemes for their staff in Ireland.

Records of the London Waste Regulatory Authority, 1986-1996, including the minutes and presented papers of the Executive Committee 1986-1996, Site Licensing Committee/Licensing and Registration Sub-Committee 1987-1996, Urgency Committee 1986-1996, and Senior Officers' Appointments Sub-Committee 1986-1996, as well as minutes and presented papers of the working parties and Forums created by the LWRA, including Members Working Group on Major Issues, Enforcement and Fly-Tipping Working Party, East and South East London Fly-Tipping Liaison Group, Waste Recycling in London Members Liaison Group and London Forum on Recycling (LWRA/A and LWRA/C).

There are a large and complete series of the WRA reports (LWRA/B) produced by the LWRA which are supported by a detailed index. The index is arranged both chronologically and as an alphabetical sequence, giving the report (WRA) number and the committee that considered the report, along with the date the committee sat, so they can be used in conjunction with the committee minutes for the relevant meeting.

It should be noted that the committee reports have been divided into two sequences. At some point the reports presented to the Executive Committee were extracted into a separate series. Both series run in chronological order and are numbered. The detailed index provides and entry into the reports. However it is worth checking both series for a particular report.

The Clerks Department files (LWRA/D) were a separate filing system maintained by the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority on behalf of the LWRA. The original filing system has been retained although many of these files contained copies of the reports found in LWRA/B/02, so duplicate copies have not been retained. A small sample of files has been retained as examples.

The Information Centre's records (LWRA/E) includes material that had been stored at Kingsmeadow House in Reading, now the South East Regional Offices of the Environmental Agency. This includes publications about waste including 'Today's Waste, Tomorrow's Resources': The Waste Management Plan for Greater London 1995 - 2015, a series of transcripts of the annual conference held by LWRA as well as staff handbooks and Health and Safety guidelines.

MBW/1901-1908: Thames Floods (estimate of works required to repair damage caused by floods and estimates of works for defence against future flooding)

MBW/1909-1910: Redistribution Of Vestrymen (cuttings from minutes)

MBW/1911-1913: Water Supply (reports on the metropolis water supply)

MBW/1914-1916: Letters (in-letters, petitions, applications and out-letters)

MBW/1917-1919: Advertisements

MBW/1920-1924: Newspaper Cuttings

MBW/1925-1928: Staff Lists (including duties of officers)

MBW/1929-2309: Finance (including registers of contracts and agreements, salary books and rate books)

MBW/2310-2420: Printed Reports (including annual reports of the Board and Committees, architect's, engineer's and fire brigade reports, papers circulated to Board members, Bills and Acts of Parliament)

MBW/2421-2445: Contracts And Specifications for work on sewers, drains and embankments.

MBW/2446-2653: Plans (plans submitted to Parliament, plans of local improvements arranged by parish, plans of artisan's dwellings, plans of the metropolis water supply, plans of Thames floods, plans of parks and open spaces, plans presented to the Board and to various Committees to accompany reports, memorials and proposals for improvements, creation of parks, drainage, bridges, roads and tunnels, plans of railways)

MBW/2654-2656: District Surveyor (monthly returns and drainage applications)

MBW/2657-2663: Bridges (Accountant's Department papers concerning claims of the bridge companies whose bridges were acquired under the Metropolitan Toll Bridges Act 1877 and the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1883)

MBW/2664-2682: Thames Floods (volumes of duplicate copies of notices served on riparian [situated on the banks of a river] owners under the Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act 1879 and Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1882, with associated plans and riverfront elevations)

MBW/2683-2685: Financial Records (Accountant's Department papers)

MBW/2686-2807: Thames Floods (plans and estimates for flood prevention works and plans of river frontage with elevations of riparian [situated on the banks of a river] properties)

MBW/2808-2812: Thames Soundings

MBW/2813-2830: Specifications (volumes of specifications for housing, fire stations, bridges, drainage, parks, embankments and sewers)

MBW/2831-2837: Contract Books and Registers

MBW/2838-2840: Rate Books

MBW/P: Plans

MBW/OW: Office of Works (papers relating to the Chelsea Bridge and Embankment, Westminster Bridge, Battersea Park, Kennington Park and Victoria Park)

MBW/BC: Bridge Company (papers relating to Vauxhall Bridge)

Records of the Middlesex County Council Civil Defence Department, including general files, 1953-1964, relating to civil defence including planning, guidance, memoranda, reports, background information, general correspondence, correspondence relating to air raid shelters, surveys, conferences and papers on the use of the Civil Defence Corps in peacetime emergencies.

Files on training, 1949-1964, including syllabus and instructor notes for training in handling casualties, rescue, wardens, tactics, evacuation, care of the homeless, billeting, rest centres, operational control, cable laying and communications; orders for training exercises; demonstrations and competitions, and plaques presented to the Middlesex Division Civil Defence Corps for completion of training by the Royal Air Force.

Files on tactical studies, 1953-1962, including London tactical study exercise questions; London Region control and deployment study; papers from a London tactical exercise at Park Royal; and papers from a Middlesex County Council tactical study at Hirst Hall, Wembley including programmes, talks and notes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Local Taxation Department, 1916-1965, including Section Heads meetings notes; Inspector's Conferences notes; correspondence with the Ministry of Transport; statistics relating to licences; papers relating to overtime and leave; petrol allowances; papers relating to the administration and control of licences for hawkers, moneylenders, pawnbrokers and refreshment houses; papers relating to dog, gun and game licences; notes on local taxation licences; papers relating to vehicle registration and licensing including correspondence and registers; and examples of application forms and licences.

Minutes and presented papers of meetings of the Middlesex County Council, 1889-1965. Also minutes and presented papers of Middlesex County Council Committees, as follows:

Aerodromes and Development Committee

Agriculture Committee

Air Raid Precautions Committee

Asylums Committee

Buildings Committee

Children's Committee

Civil Defence Committee

Coordinating Committee

Costs and Policy Review Committee

Diseases of Animals Committee

Drainage Committee

Education Committee

Emergency Committee

Establishment Committee

Estates Committee

Finance Committee

Fire Brigade Committee

General Purposes Committee

Highways Committee

Housing Committee

Industrial Schools Committee

Land Committee

Licensing Committee

Light Railways Committee

Local Government Committee

Luncheon Club Committee

Maternity Committee

Office Accommodation Committee

Parliamentary Committee

Planning Committee

Public Health Committee

Rates Committee

Rivers Committee

Selection Committee

Small Dwellings Committee

Small Holdings Committee

Staff Committee

Standing Orders Committee

Supplies Committee

Taxation Committee

Valuation Committee

War Committee

Welfare Committee

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Control Department, 1904-1965, including personal papers of Chief Officer John O'Keefe (1950-1960) including files on the foods and food standards commission, food labelling, weights and measures regulations, Consumer's Advisory Council, samples sent to the public analyst, articles on food and drugs legislation, correspondence, photographs of the work of the department and examples of labels and forms used by the department.

Papers relating to food standards including files on coffee, gelatine, fish paste, ice cream, margarine, mustard, salad cream and mayonnaise, jams and jellies, beverages, wines, spirits and liquors, bread, milk, butter, cream, yoghurt, confectionary, vegetables, meat, eggs, soups, herbs and spices, cakes, pies and biscuits, slimming foods, vinegars and condiments, cheese, cereals, crisps, honey, soya products, vitamins. Also files on drugs, cosmetics, pollen tablets, and animal fats.

Papers relating to merchandise marks including legislation; notes regarding legal points; and files regarding honey, fruit and vegetables, meat, poultry, butter, turpentine, bleach and fabrics. Papers relating to the interpretation and labelling of poisons.

Papers relating to weights and measures including regulations; notes for the guidance of inspectors; correspondence and enquiries relating to sand and ballast; files regarding coke, coal, liquid fuels and lubricating oils; files regarding weighing equipment and measuring instruments including weighbridges.

Also registers and index cards of infringements; reports of infringements and legal appeals.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Planning Department relating to the County of Middlesex Development Plan, 1950-1965, including draft; amendments; objections and correspondence regarding the Plan; consultations; Quinquennial Review including objections, and accompanying maps for both the Plan and the Review.

Records of the Middlesex Deeds Registry, 1709-1938. Deeds and documents brought into the Registry for registration were initially copied onto pieces of parchment called memorials, and then into large volumes or registers. The registers exist for 1709-1938. Information held in the memorials and registers includes the date of the transaction, the names of the parties and a description of the property. Plans were frequently included in the entries and from 1892 a separate series of plan tracings of larger map and plans was made.

The indexes cover 1709-1919, and consist of large volumes with entries arranged under the surname of the vendor or first party in alpha-chronological order. Against each entry is a note of the other parties and the location of the property. Indexes for 1920-1938 take the form of an alphabetised card index to the names of the vendors or first parties. Information is given on the location of the property, varying in detail from a parish to a street name and number.

The indexes 1709-1919 and registers of memorials have been microfilmed.

School Board for London: Clifton Road School; card for punctual and regular attendance awarded to S. T. Beets, 1878.

Printed posters displaying rules, orders and bye-laws for the preservation and use of Paddington Green; Saint Mary's parish church disused burial ground, and Saint George's Parish Vestry Hall Gardens, Mount Street, Hanover Square, 1890-1894.

Text of his lecture on the development of the Royal Indian Navy during the period 1918-1944, written in 1944. 'The findings of the Board of Enquiry convened by the Flag Officer, Bombay, to enquire into the mutiny at the Castle Barracks on 18th February 1946', dated Mar 1946.

Legal papers relating to this partnership and dispute between partners over credit for inventing plastic optical lens, 1935-1938, 1944.

Four volumes of administrative documentation relating to the Bath Casualty Hospital: two volumes relating to the Hospital's rules and orders, an account book and a register of wills in the Hospital's favour, 1788-1840.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Chiswick, including registers of baptisms (1870-1953), marriages (1872-1964) and banns of marriage (1872-1913), as well as parish magazines, PCC minutes, preachers', readers' and collections registers, and service registers.

Collection of title deeds relating to ownership of property in Earl's Court Road, Somerset Place, Bath Place and Edwards Square, Kensington. Documents include leases, assignments, mortgages, abstract of title and releases.

Records of G Bedford, including apprenticeship indentures, leases, assignments, marriage settlement, mortgage and other documents relating to property. The properties mentioned are situated across London, including Hanover Square, Soho, Golden Square, Grosvenor Square, and Hackney.

Records of the estates of the Russell family, Dukes of Bedford, in Covent Garden, Streatham and Rotherhithe, 16th to 19th Century. These records are of properties no longer owned by the Bedford Estate and none of them relate to Bloomsbury. The papers include title deeds, leases, abstracts of title, surveys, valuations, maps, plans, rentals, financial accounts, correspondence, legal papers, printed items, papers relating to Covent Garden market and Rotherhithe docks.

Records of William Bagshaw relating to two properties in which he had an interest, 42 Craven Street, Strand and 3 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and to a grave in Highgate Cemetery he purchased. One document shows him acting as a trustee. Two apprenticeship indentures have no obvious link with the rest of the documents, and may have come from another source.

Papers relating to the estate of John Bacon the younger, sculptor, including title deeds and documents relating to the purchase, ownership and sale of properties in the City of London, Bethnal Green, Paddington, Marylebone, Hoxton, Shoreditch, Stepney, Knightsbridge, Westminster and Kent; correspondence; articles of co-partnership with Charles Manning; and lists of sculptural works underway.

Records of Lord Bolingbroke relating to his estates in Battersea, including leases, releases, conveyances and particulars of the estate including plans.

Records of Bovril Limited, 1797-1959, comprising leases, mortgages, conveyances and other legal documents relating to the ownership of premises on Old Street, Bunhill Row and Banner Street, Finsbury, Islington and Farringdon Street, City of London.

Papers relating to the estates of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury comprising documents relating to property transfer, such as conveyances, mortgages, valuations, leases and abstracts of title. The properties mentioned are primarily in the St James's Park area, Westminster.

Papers, 1551-1950, of the Benyon family, including records of the de Beauvoir estate in Hackney, Shoreditch and elsewhere, and including references to several families including the de Beauvoir, Macdougall, Tyssen and Whitmore families.

The first deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1551-1723, largely 17th century, also relating to some property in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Ref: E/BVR/1-28);
De Beauvoir Town (Hackney): rent books, 1830-1950, for properties in the area bounded by Regent's Canal in the south, Kingsland Road in the east, Ball's Pond Road in the North, and Southgate Road in the West, also notebooks concerning rents, 1829-1845, and a Trust account book of the late Rev Peter Beauvoir, 1821-1843 (Ref: E/BVR/29-193);
accounts, 1857-1859, 1867-1950, and associated records concerning the estate and its administration, including correspondence, 1821-1935 (Ref: E/BVR/194-286);
Tyssen estate: manor of Hackney Lordshold, Kingshold and Grumbolds: correspondence, accounts, etc, 1746-1820, concerning administration of the estate, also mentioning Hackney church (Ref: E/BVR/287-346);
Piccadilly estate (St Martin in the Fields): deeds (copies), 1623-1676 (Ref: E/BVR/347-358);
Haymarket properties (St Martin in the Fields): deeds: Macdougall family papers, 1632-1821 (Ref: E/BVR/359-399);
Pall Mall properties (St Martin in the Fields and St James, Westminster): deeds, 1660-1812 (Ref: E/BVR/400-411);
Redcross Street (St Giles, Cripplegate) properties: deeds, 1669-1755, including one item, a note c1700, relating to property in Acton (Middlesex) (Ref: E/BVR/412-418);
Vauxhall estate: rental, including record of rents received, 1758-1821, and list of deeds, 1694-1822, concerning this estate, copyhold to the Manor of Kennington (Ref: E/BVR/419);
Maps, plans and engravings, 1831-1879 and undated {19th century}, including printed, manuscript and lithographed items, largely of Hackney and Shoreditch, including De Beauvoir Town, some including details of settlement and other information as well as property ownership (Ref: E/BVR/420-428).

The second deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1627, 1773 (Ref: E/BVR/429-431);
'Essex' rental, 1839-1907, including also De Beauvoir Town, Haymarket and Vauxhall (Ref: E/BVR/432);
De Beauvoir Town: estate papers etc, 1869-1900 (Ref: E/BVR/433-437);
correspondence and papers, 1867-1906, relating to St Peter's Church parish matters and church fabric, and an original watercolour of the church, 1842 (Ref: E/BVR/438-446);
Piccadilly estate: case for opposition to rate for cleaning Piccadilly and Park Lane, 1809 (Ref: E/BVR/447);
Haymarket: rentals, 1903 (Ref: E/BVR/448).

The third deposit comprises:
Hoxton: deed, 1551 (Ref: E/BVR/449);
Manor of Balmes: deeds, 1626, 1634 (Ref: E/BVR/450-453);
Estate accounts: De Beauvoir Town vouchers for various payments, 1831-1852, including work on the new church, De Beauvoir Town; vouchers for repairs etc, 1921-1933; correspondence and statement of accounts of the estates' London solicitor and agent, 1838-1917 (Ref: E/BVR/454-496);
No 27 Grosvenor Square: lease, 1911 (Ref: E/BVR/497);
West Hackney Church: correspondence with the Bishop of London re proposed church, 1838 (Ref: E/BVR/498).

The fourth deposit comprises: Valuation and accounts for the De Beauvoir Town estate (Ref: E/BVR/499-501).

Records relating to the Calthorpe family estates, including mortgages, conveyances, insurance policies, tax redemption certificates, and letters. The estate included premises in Grays Inn Road, City Road, Gough Square, Chelsea, Fleet Street and in Norfolk.

Papers relating to the London estate of the Marquess of Camden. The records consist almost exclusively of deeds and leases for property on the estate.

This collection comprises records of the William Cotton Estate (later the Bow Common Estate) and documents the acquisition and running of the Cotton estate from [1714]- 1936.. The records include marriage settlements, trustee appointments, wills and probates, legal case papers, administrative papers for the Limehouse estate, papers relating to property transactions, registers of properties, plans and maps, catalogue of wines for auction and register of leases. Some of the material concerns the Bow Common Estate Company Ltd.

Records of the Crawley family relating to the management of their estates in Holborn and Marylebone.

Papers of the Davis family, comprising deeds relating to 52 Marlborough Place, Saint Marylebone.

Records of the du Cane family relating to their estates in London, as follows:

Freehold title:
E/DCA/001-041 Manor or farm of Ballams/Balham, in Clapham and Streatham;
E/DCA/042-049 Ruddocks and 7 Acres Grove, in Croydon.

Copyhold title:
E/DCA/050-099 Land of Manor of Fauxhall, in Streatham;
E/DCA/100-131, 134 Land of Manor of Norbury, in Streatham and Croydon;
E/DCA/132, 133 Land of Manor of Croydon, in [? Streatham or Croydon].

Leasehold title:
E/DCA/135, 136 Houses in City of London;
E/DCA/137, 138 Sheepwalk of Manor of Battersea and Wandsworth, in [? Battersea].

Leases:
E/DCA/139-152 Balham Farm;
E/DCA/153-163 Streatham Farm.

Estate management:
E/DCA/164-189 Valuations, etc.

Correspondence:
E/DCA/190-237 Estate;
E/DCA/238-241 Croydon Inclosure;
E/DCA/242-246 Chancery case relating to Shelley family settlement;
E/DCA/247-250 Family.

Miscellaneous:
E/DCA/251-256 Documents unrelated to those above.

Plans:
E/DCA/257-266 Balham and Streatham Farms, and Streatham Common.

Records of the Duncombe family relating to their property in London, as follows:

E/DNC/1-10: property, including that of William Lowndes, in Westminster and elsewhere;
E/DNC/11: Duncombe family property: Westminster;
E/DNC/12-25: Duncombe family property: Holborn;
E/DNC/26, 27: Duncombe family property: City;
E/DNC/29-30: Duncombe family property: St Giles in the Fields etc.
E/DNC/31: Duncombe family property: Kensington;
E/DNC/32: Duncombe family property: Hoxton;
E/DNC/33: Duncombe family property: unspecified [perhaps as solicitors].

Records of the Evelyn family estates in Deptford, including leases and agreements to lease for premises (including public houses the Admiral Rodney, The Ship and the White Hart) in New King Street, Grove Street, Mill Lane, Slaughterhouse Lane, and Czar Street; building agreements for Alexandra Street, Amersham Grove, Amersham Vale Road, Greenfield Place, Junction Road, Milton Court Road, Napier Street, Vansittart Street, Wardour Lane, Woodpecker Road, Evelyn Street and the Prince Street police station.

Title deeds of Barn House and estates, Eltham, including mention of the Teggart and Lewis families.

Records of the Fielding family estates in Fulham, including leases, releases, bargain and sales, mortgages, bonds, indentures of fine, and bills.

Title deeds and other papers relating to the Gort family estates in London, the Isle of Wight and Ireland.

E/GOR/1-174 comprise documents relating mainly to Gresse Street, Stephen Street, Percy Street and Tottenham Court Road, St Pancras, London. E/GOR/175-243 comprise documents relating to East Cowes Castle Estate and other properties at Whippingham and East Cowes, Isle of Wight. E/GOR/244-263 comprise documents relating mainly to Oatlands and Roxborough, Co Limerick, Ireland.

Each of these sections is further divided into: (i) marriage settlements, probates, and other documents listed by person, which cannot be related to a specific property; and (ii) documents listed by property. Except in listing the original numbered series, sub-numbering has only been used where an item was originally enclosed inside another item.

E/GOR/59-174 form an original numbered series. The series contains a few conveyances but consists mainly of licences to demise granted by the Lord of the Manor of Tottenham to a trustee under the will of John Jones, leases made by the trustees under the same will, and assignments of leases.

The properties were held in trust for his daughter, Elizabeth Mary, wife of George Tudor (who was also one of the trustees) and later wife of John Prendergast, Viscount Gort. Each group of deeds relating to a property has an original number (marked in red ink on some of the documents) making it a part of an original series consecutively numbered.

Within this number series the series is ordered by street and then by street number, although occasionally a document relates to different properties in different streets. Many of the documents are not numbered but were found with numbered documents relating to the same properties. This particularly applies to the licences.

Records relating to Hagen family property in Wapping and Bermondsey, comprising bills, receipts and plans.

Papers of the Hodson family relating to their properties in London, including

1. St. Martin's-le-Grand, City of London, property,
2. Southwark and Camberwell properties,
3. E. Wickham property, Kent,
4. Lambeth property,
5. Properties in London, Westminster, Islington and Fulham, formerly part of the estate of Elizabeth Pratt; found with the Hodson deeds,
6. Probates and deeds of unknown provenance, found with the Hodson deeds.

Records relating to property owned by Charles Hird in St Pancras, Marylebone and Peckham.

Papers of the Holland family relating to leasehold premises, 21 Shaftesbury Terrace, Warwick Road, Kensington (re-named and re-numbered 139 Warwick Road in 1890).

Papers of Lord Lloyd Kenyon relating to premises in Conduit Street, St George Hanover Square, Westminster.

Records of the Lethbridge family relating to their estates in Southwark and the City of London, including the Manor of Paris Garden.

Records relating to the Goldsmiths Company and the Lane Clarke family, including correspondence; legal papers; deeds; schedules; copies of baptism and burial certificates.

The collection comprises records of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Anne Leigh Smith, including marriage settlement, insurance documents, and papers relating to property in Marylebone.

Records of the Maryon-Wilson family relating to their estates and property holdings. Papers relating to the Manor of Charlton include rentals, correspondence, agreements, court rolls, deeds, leases, legal papers, papers relating to the Woolwich ferry and the Thames Steam Boat Company, plans of the estate, tithes and papers relating to the Charlton churches of St Luke, St Thomas and St Paul, photographs of Charlton House, and papers relating to the Blackheath regiment.

Papers relating to the Manor of Hampstead include court rolls and minutes, admissions and enfranchisements, licence books, plans and surveys, leases, papers relating to the Hampstead Heath Act, and family papers.

The collection includes a small number of documents relating to the family estates in Sussex and Essex.

Records of the Maxse family relating to property in Marylebone, Hanover Square, Westminster and Kensington.

Records relating to properties owned by the Bonney and Nevinson families in St James, Westminster; St George Hanover Square; and Marylebone.

The remaining documents do not appear to be connected with the main group. However, since the series of deeds for the property in St James Westminster, at least, are clearly incomplete, it may be that the two groups are related, though the link is not now apparent.

Papers of the Nokes family, mostly relating to property in the City of London, Newington and Shoreditch, but also copies of certificates (baptisms, marriages, deaths) and copies of wills and probates.

The records of the Marquess of Northampton's London Estates in Holloway and Canonbury form a considerable collection of material from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries relating to the development of Islington.

Estate Records (E/NOR/E): These relate almost entirely to the Northampton Estates in London in Clerkenwell and Canonbury, Islington. There is a fine series of eighteenth century rentals and accounts which extend into the twentieth century. These can be used in conjunction with the leases and maps in E/NOR/L.

Also included in this section are records of Estate administration in the twentieth century, relating to legislation under the Housing Acts of 1925, 1930 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, together with more local orders by Finsbury Justices. In particular, there is a lot of material relating to the Clearance of the Northampton Road area in the 1930s and the building of new flats in Canonbury via the Compton Housing Association in the same decade. By 1954 at least part of the Canonbury Estate had been sold by the Northampton trustees to property companies Western Ground Rents and the Oriel Property Trust.

The development of the Canonbury Estate is outlined in the Victoria County History of Middlesex vol VIII pp 54,55.

Leases (E/NOR/L): There are a number of schedules of leases giving an insight into the running of the Estates in the nineteenth century; these are complemented by the Maps of Estates which vary in date from 1809 to 1947 (E/NOR/L/2), the maps in the Map and Print Section of the LMA, and Estate Records mentioned above.

The leases have been split into two groups: one covering the geographical area of Clerkenwell (E/NOR/L/3) and one covering Canonbury (E/NOR/L/4). They include documents from all forms of transfer of property and other related records: bargain and sale, demises, assignments, abstracts of title, building agreements, mortgages. Most of these have been kept in original bundles where possible.

For ease of access the leases have been listed in alphabetical order of streets and within each street by the numbered property. An attempt has been made to give alternative street names. Similarly cross references to properties mentioned in other deeds have been added. However, it has not been possible (or considered necessary) to produce a totally comprehensive appendix of street numbering changes. Individual instances of street numbering can be further clarified by reference to the LCC's published Names of Streets and Places and the accompanying list of Street Naming and Numbering records in the Catalogue Room.

Many of the nineteenth century leases have plans on them, but a number of separate plans of buildings are included separately at the end of the leases section (E/NOR/L/5).

Among the leases of Clerkenwell properties belonging to the Marquess of Northampton are the London Spa, Wilmington Square, Exmouth Market, the Sheep Skin Market at Woods Close, and Northampton Square.

Canonbury leases include Canonbury Tower, Canonbury House, Canonbury Square and Northampton House. Pevsner describes Canonbury as "especially illuminating for the development of domestic building in London."

Other Records: Apart from the Estate Records there are a number of significant small collections and individual items in this archive.

The Sheep Skin Market run by the Skinners Company in Woods Close is documented by three volumes of market books 1754-1772 (E/NOR/S/1-3).

Among items of local historical interest there are photographs of Canonbury (E/NOR/X) and a small amount of printed material on Clerkenwell including a History of Spa Fields Burial Ground (E/NOR/Y/2), and a sketch of Finsbury Health Centre (E/NOR/Y/7).

Away from Clerkenwell and Canonbury, there are some records concerning the Northampton family's involvement in the Ragged School at Hertford Place, Mile End Old Town (E/NOR/R) and the Northampton Training Ship (E/NOR/Y/8).

The collection comprises title deeds relating to land owned by the Benn-Walsh family, barons Ormathwaite, in Marylebone, Westminster, Stepney, Essex, Buckinghamshire and County Durham.