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      QUEENHITHE WARD CLUB
      GB 0074 CLC/098 · Collection · 1932-1996

      Minute books of the Queenhithe Ward Club.

      Queenhithe Ward Club
      QUEENHITHE WARD
      GB 0074 CLC/W/MA · Collection · 1667-1960

      Records of Queenhithe Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, assessments, wardmote inquest verdicts and a list of voters. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library at various dates.

      Queenhithe Ward , Corporation of London
      MCC/X/PJIC · Collection · 1920-1962
      Part of MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the Middlesex County Council Provincial Joint Industrial Council, 1920-1962, including correspondence; bank book; agendas, reports and minutes of the Executive Committee; constitution, functions and recommendations of the Industrial Council; schedule of wages and working conditions, and decisions of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal affecting Middlesex staff.

      MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
      Powell, Ifor Ball
      GB 0102 PP MS 26 · Created 1926-1986

      Papers, 1926-1986, of Ifor Ball Powell, largely comprising the Philippine reference material collected by him, together with his correspondence and personal papers. The reference material covers topics such as the Philippine legislature; Philippine administration; political parties, elections and election statistics; US Philippine agreements and relations; Philippine Islands during World War II; and the City of Manila. Also included are photographs taken during Powell's field trips in Southeast and East Asia, particularly in the Philippines, and an extensive collection of press cuttings.

      Powell , Ifor Ball , 1902-1986 , historian
      PORTSOKEN WARD
      GB 0074 CLC/W/LA · Collection · 1666-1904

      Records of the Porksoken Ward, City of London. The records comprise minutes and accounts, rate assessments and poll books, records of the volunteer association, rent roll and other administrative and legal papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

      Portsoken Ward , Corporation of London
      POPLAR BOARD OF GUARDIANS
      POBG · Collection · 1813-1940

      Records of Poplar Poor Law Union, 1813-1940, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; annual reports and statements of account; statutes and bye-laws; reports on Guardian's visits to institutions; papers relating to the enquiry by the Local Government Board into the administration of Poplar Union; orders and correspondence from Government departments; contracts; deeds; settlement examinations; orders for removal to and from the Union; applications for relief; registers of lunatics; lunatic reception orders; registers for Poplar High Street Workhouse; registers for Dunton Farm Colony; registers for Forest Gate Branch Workhouse; registers of children, including those at Poplar Training School, Forest Gate and Langley House Children's Home; plans of Poplar Workhouse; financial accounts and staff records.

      Poplar Poor Law Union x Poplar Board of Guardians
      GB 0099 KCLMA Poore R · Created 1887-1924

      Papers relating to his life and career, 1887-1924, comprising published pamphlets and articles relating to his establishment of a freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892], dated 1887, 1891, 1893, 1894, [1912], 1924; correspondence relating to his candidature for a seat on Wiltshire County Council, 1888; photograph of portrait of Poore by T Binney Gibbs, 1912.

      Untitled
      GB 0096 MS 697 · nd [c1720]

      Petition, [1720?], to the justices of the peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire on behalf of Abraham Bean, a farmer of the parish of Cantley, near Doncaster, and signed by John Fox, Vicar of Cantley, Samuel Crabtree, William Morehouse and John Leetham, parishioners. The petition 'Sheweth That your Petitioner is an honest and labourious Person And hath maintain'd himself and family (since he had one) reputably on a Small Farm in This Parish...', and appeals for further aid - the Justices had granted £10 immediate relief the previous August at Rotherham. He had lost 16 head of 'Great Cattle' in the winter, and his house had been burned down. Both he and his wife had suffered from burns, and they and their two children had been forced to enter an alms house 'and are there now barely kept from starving by the Parish'. A note is added at the foot: '29 1. as Charity to be paid by the Treasurer'.

      Parishioners of Cantley, Yorkshire
      PLANNING DEPARTMENT: MAPS
      MCC/PL/MP · Collection · 1920-1961
      Part of MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL

      Maps from the Middlesex County Council Planning Department, 1920-1961, including map of London Airport (Heathrow); map showing allotments in Middlesex; maps of bye-passes, roads and highways; maps of school sites and playing fields; map of land liable for flooding; nature conservancy map; maps of drainage and sewerage; map of the Thames Riverside Walk; maps of the Central, North, South and West Planning Areas and map of parishes, unions, rural and urban sanitary districts.

      MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
      MCC/PL/DP · Collection · 1950-1965
      Part of MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL

      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.

      MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
      GB 0074 LMA/4257 · Collection · 1823

      A letter from Reverend William Aubrey Phelp to James Wilson of Sneaton, Yorkshire concerning the payment of parish rates.

      Phelp , William Aubrey , fl 1792-1839 , vicar of the parish of Stanwell
      PERRYS {SOLICITORS}
      GB 0074 ACC/1621 · Collection · 1810-1907

      Papers, 1810-1907, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Islington, Saint Pancras, Bethnal Green and Fleet Street, including leases, agreements, mortgages and assignments of leases. Also official parochial register of statistics of Church organisation and finance for New Brentford, with statistical return form, 1902-1907.

      Perrys , solicitors
      GB 0372 PERRING · Fonds · 1946-1966

      Papers of businessman and public servant Sir Ralph Edgar Perring, 1962-1963, including five large scrapbooks of press cuttings, invitations, photographs and other ephemera relating to Perring's service as Lord Mayor of London, 1962-1963; large photograph album and loose photographs of ceremonial engagements undertaken by Perring as Lord Mayor of London, 1962-1963; papers, estimates, photographs and correspondence with Wilkinson Sword regarding the production and design of a city processional sword, 1962; three volumes of the published work, 'Presentation of the Lord Mayor to Her Majesty's Judges', 1946-1966

      Perring, Sir, Ralph Edgar (1905-1998) 1st Baron Perring, businessman and public servant
      GB 0074 P92/PCM · Collection · 1886-1991

      Records of the Pembroke College Mission, Barlow Street, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; church services registers; and minutes of the Parochial Church Council and other committees.

      Pembroke College Mission, Walworth , Church of England Parish of St Christopher, Walworth , Church of England
      GB 0074 CLC/259 · Collection · 1890-1898

      Historical research and notes on the parish of Saint Michael Bassishaw, including extracts from parish records.

      Passmore , William Barnes , fl 1890-1898 , churchwarden
      PABG · Collection · 1845-1936

      Records of the Paddington Poor Law Parish, 1845-1936, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; standing orders; reports and accounts; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; orders of removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics and imbeciles; registers for Harrow Road Workhouse; apprenticeship indentures; register of children sent to the Training Ship Exmouth; registers of children sent to the West London District School; registers of children at the Trenmar Gardens Receiving Home; financial accounts and staff records.

      Paddington Poor Law Parish x Paddington Board of Guardians
      NORTHWICK FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/0076 · Collection · 1315-1885

      Papers of the Northwick family relating to the manors of Harrow alias Sudbury and Harrow Rectory alias Harrow-on-the-Hill, including court rolls, financial accounts, rentals, surveys, papers relating to the livings and churches of Harrow and Pinner, papers relating to Harrow School, family papers including correspondence, and papers relating to property owned by the family in Bloomsbury, Shoreditch, the City of London, and Paddington.

      Various.
      GB 0096 MS1146 · Fonds · 1874-[1926]

      W North collection, 1874-[1926], comprising a Leeds parliamentary election poster titled "Reaction versus Disunion", 1874; a report on potato disease by Robert Veitch and Son with sketches of vegetables, possibly by Veitch, 1892; and a children's poster titled "A Pageant of London", c 1926.

      North , W , fl 1874-[1926] , collector
      NORTH SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT
      NSSD · Collection · 1849-1930

      Records of the North Surrey School District, 1849-1930, including minutes of the Board of Managers; minutes and reports of various Committees; medical reports; annual reports and statements of accounts; pamphlet 'A Short History of the North Surrey District School'; orders of and correspondence with the Poor Law Board and Local Government Board; admission and discharge registers for Anerley School; registers of apprentices and servants; staff lists and superannuation registers.

      North Surrey School District
      North Lambeth Labour Party
      GB 0097 NORTH LAMBETH LABOUR PARTY · Collection · 1920-1955

      Minute Books, constituency papers, leaflets and other election ephemera from London County Council and Parliamentary elections, papers of Ray Roberts, the Party agent, 1920-1955.

      North Lambeth Labour Party
      NON-DEPARTMENTAL: PLANS
      LCC/MISC/P · Collection · 1867-1965
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Plans and maps produced by various departments of the London County Council and the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1867-1965, including plans of bridges, memorials, County Hall, exhibition, fire brigade stations, housing estates, embankments, parks, sewers, water supply, railways, tramways, tube railways, electricity supply, gas supply, schools, and institutions. Maps relating to local government functions such as boundaries of metropolitan boroughs and parishes, district surveyors and town planning. Plans and maps relating to the Royal Commission of the Port of London, the Royal Commission on London Traffic and the Royal Commission on London Transport.

      Also portable photometer readings of illuminated power at various sites across London, made by the Chemical and Gas Departments of the Metropolitan Board of Works and then the London County Council. A photometer is an instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or for comparing the intensities of light from different sources.

      Please note that a full index of these plans is available in hard copy in the LMA Information Area.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      GB 0097 COLL MISC 0862 · Collection · 1910-1911

      Papers relating to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, the Minority Report and the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution, including a paper by Sidney Webb "Suggestions and Hypotheses".

      National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution
      GB 0097 MORRISON · Collection · 1921-1969

      The collection consists of Jones and Donoughue's research notes and transcripts of interviews they conducted with Morrison's associates, and original documents and copies collected from various sources, the provenance of some of which is uncertain. The papers include material relating to Morrison's time as Lord President and Leader of the House of Commons, his speeches, publications by and concerning Herbert Morrison, the research notes and correspondence of Jones and Donoughue, interviews with Morrison's associates, original manuscripts and printed material, and copies of manuscripts and printed material held at Nuffield College, Oxford.

      Donoughue , Bernard , b 1934 , Baron Donoughue , journalist Jones , George William , b 1938 , author and academic Morrison , Herbert Stanley , 1888-1965 , 1st Baron Morrison of Lambeth , statesman Boon , P H , fl 1936-1978 , civil servant
      GB 0097 MILL-TAYLOR · Collection · 1817-1918

      Correspondence of John Stuart Mill; correspondence of Helen Taylor concerning the publication and translation of John Stuart Mill's works and correspondence, the Moral Reform Union, women's suffrage, the social position and education of women, the London School Board and education, literary work, the land question, political questions, Irish affairs, miscellaneous public interests, and private correspondence; letters of appreciation and criticism of John Stuart Mill's work and character, and of sympathy on his death; other miscellaneous letters concerning John Stuart Mill; additional correspondence of John Stuart Mill; correspondence of Harriet Taylor and other members of the Taylor family; material relating to honorary degrees, society memberships, etc. conferred on John Stuart Mill; note books, etc. of John Stuart Mill, including botanical notebooks; writings by Helen Taylor, including "Limits of Local Government", "Municipal Vote etc", and her diaries; letters, speeches and articles by and concerning John Stuart Mill, extracted from newspapers and periodicals; miscellaneous papers of John Stuart Mill, Helen Taylor, Harriet Taylor, and others; and photographs and press cuttings.

      Mill , James , 1773-1836 , philosopher Mill , John Stuart , 1806-1873 , philosopher MP Mill , Harriet Taylor , 1807-1858 , nee Hardy , philosopher Taylor , Helen , 1831-1907 , suffragist
      GB 0074 MXS · Collection · 1907-1982

      Records of Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1907-1982. Records relating to Justices of the Peace including registers of attendance of justices; Registers of Justices' oaths; Middlesex Victoria funds; Quarter Sessions Society; Chairman's notebooks; Society of Chairmen of Quarter Sessions; Justices' Property Committee; Conferences of Justices' draft minutes; official registrations; Justices' clerks' fees and accounts and lists of Justices of the Peace.

      Records of the Court in session, including Sessions rolls; Court minutes; depositions; calendars; registers of cases; registers of appeals; general orders of the Court; probation reports and registers of probation orders; recogizances; Criminal Justice Act papers; County Day papers; records of convictions; register of cases committed for trial; oaths, bibles and swearing aids; case papers and registers under tuberculosis orders and standing orders of court and committees.

      Administrative papers of the Quarter Sessions including prison reports; costs papers; maps and plans; accounts of fees and fines; papers of committees including the Parliamentary Committee, Petty Sessional Boundaries Committee, Rota Committee, County Confirming and Compensation Committee, London Area and Advisory Committee and Middlesex Sessions Area Administrative Committee; and Court year books.

      Papers deposited with the Clerk of the Peace including highway diversions, register of fines and cost and jurors' books. Papers of the Clerk of the Peace including reference files; papers relating to ceremonial occasions and receipt book. Also financial accounts of the County Treasurer.

      Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace
      GB 0074 ACC/1055 · Collection · 1802

      Records deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, comprising a parochial list of the poll for the County of Middlesex at the General Election 1802; printed in 1803 with minor handwritten additions, including the signature of Edward Knight, former owner.

      Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace
      GB 0074 ACC/0381 · Collection · 1819-1829

      Records of the Middlesex Sessions of the Peace comprising extracts from minutes of the orders of court relating to County business. The extracts were first made in 1819 for the period 1716-1829. Only two entries were made between 1826 and 1829.

      Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace
      GB 0074 MA · Collection · 1590-1930

      Records of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions relating to local administration, 1590-1930. The number of series in MA reveals the wide scope of county administration dealt with at the sessions. A lot of the records date from the nineteenth century when there was an increase in central attempts at the regulation of many aspects of everyday life. MA/W deals with silk weavers' wage rates; MA/MW covers the work of Inspectors of Weights and Measures; MA/RS are reports from county committees and officers; MA/MS deal with military carriage rates; MA/S is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's sessions houses; MA/MD covers the work of Inspectors of Animal Diseases; MA/C covers the work of the sessions' committees; MA/G is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's prisons; MA/GS, likewise for Feltham Industrial School; MA/DCP are plans of county properties; MA/D and MA/DC contain deeds and contracts for county properties; MA/B are Bridge Committee papers; MA/A is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's lunatic asylums; and MA/MN deals with military and naval recruitment in the county.

      Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace
      MIDDLESEX ELECTION
      ACC/0993 · Collection · 1784

      Protest of John Wilkes and W Mainwaring to the sheriff of Middlesex against holding a "scrubing" following the election of 23rd April 1784 for Knights of the Shire (county representatives in the House of Commons).

      Wilkes , John , 1725-1797 , politician
      MCC/X/COA · Collection · 1933-1965
      Part of MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the Middlesex County Council Officers Association, 1933-1965, comprising correspondence and copies of the Guildhall Gazette staff magazine.

      MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
      MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL
      ACC/0965 · Collection · 1902-1906

      Proposals prepared by the County Engineer and County Architect, Middlesex County Council, including:

      proposed extensions to Willesden Polytechnic, 1902

      estimate for a new bridge across the River Colne near the Upper Mill, Stanwell Moor, 1904

      alterations to Town Hall, Feltham, 1905

      estimate for Magistrates' Court House, Uxbridge, 1906

      specification for reconstruction of Colham Bridge over the Grand Junction Canal at Yiewsley, 1906.

      MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
      GB 0120 WMS/Amer.45 and 89 · 1797-1798

      The items in the collection span the work of the Junta during the 1797-1798 smallpox epidemic, comprising a circular announcing the setting up in late 1797 of local charitable societies to be co-ordinated by the Junta, and the Junta's concluding report of early 1798.

      Junta Principal de Caridad , Mexico City , Mexico
      Mexico: Junta de Sanidad
      GB 0120 WMS/Amer.5 and 69 · 1813

      The collection comprises two sets of directives issued by the Mexico City Junta de Sanidad during the 1813 fever epidemics.

      Junta de Sanidad , Mexico City , Mexico
      METROPOLITAN UNIONS
      O/523 · Collection · 1875

      Printed list of gross and rateable values of valuation lists for Metropolitan parishes and unions, 1875.

      Metropolitan Poor Law Unions
      GB 0347 MBW · Collection · 1900-1965

      This catalogue includes minutes of the Metropolitan Borough and the Council committees. The collection also includes rate books, records of the Town Clerk and records of the borough's libraries.

      Please contact the Archive for further information.
      GB 0347 MBB · Collection · 1900-1965

      This catalogue includes minutes of the Metropolitan Borough and the Council committees. The collection also includes deeds of properties purchased by the Borough Solicitor, rate books, records of the Surveyors Department, including drainage plans for the Borough as well as files of the Town Clerk.

      Please contact the Archive for further information.
      METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS
      MBW · Collection · 1739-1912

      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)

      MBW , Metropolitan Board of Works x Metropolitan Board of Works
      METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD
      ACC/2368 · Collection · 1905

      Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

      MAB , Metropolitan Asylums Board x Metropolitan Asylums Board
      GB 0097 MERTON AND MORDEN LABOUR PARTY · 1926-1970

      Records of the Merton and Morden Labour Party, 1926-1970, including minutes of the General and Executive Committees, the General Management Committee and the Annual General Meetings, 1936-1970; minutes of the Merton and Morden Young Socialists, 1959-1965; minutes of the Morden Ward, 1926-1966, and the Morden Ward Women's Section, 1947-1967; minutes of the Merton Group, 1933-1935; minutes of the Ravensbury and St Helier Ward Women's Section, 1948-1952; various publications, notably the Merton and Morden weekly tote, lottery and bulletin, 1957-1970, copies of The Argus, the Journal of the Merton and Morden Labour Party, 1952-1961, Labour Party General Election literature, 1964-1970, Local Election literature, 1934-1956, and press cuttings, 1960-1968.

      Merton and Morden Labour Party
      GB 0096 MS 805 · 1767

      Manuscript volume containing a transcript of the 'Mémoires de Monsieur [Louis René de Caradeuc] De La Chalotais, Procureur Général au Parlement de Bretagne... Ecrit le 21 janvier MDCCLXVII'. The manuscript is perhaps a fair copy from the printed edition of 1766, containing the first and second Mémoires.

      Unknown
      GB 0097 MEADOWCROFT · 1960-2000

      Papers of Michael James Meadowcroft, 1960-2000, mainly relating to his career in the Liberal Party, notably working papers for Liberal publications written by Meadowcroft, 1976-1992, including Liberal values for a new decade (1980), Bluffers guide to politics (1976), Liberalism and the left (1982) and The case for the Liberal Party (1992); documents collected for an article on Liberal strategy, including the Lib-Lab Pact, 1973-1978; material relating to elections for Leeds West, 1974-1987, including candidates handbooks, campaign manuals, General Election papers, press cuttings and reports to electors; material relating to Liberal Assemblies, 1971-1994, notably official papers, press cuttings and scrapbooks; material relating to the central Liberal Party, [1981-1990], including papers of the Liberal Party Council (1980-1983), minutes of the Parliamentary Liberal Party (1983-1987), and working papers of the Standing Committee (1980-1983); papers concerning the SDP and the Liberal/SDP Alliance, 1981-1988, including notes, press cuttings, manifestos, programme material , and SDP conference material; material concerning the SDP and Liberal Party merger, 1987-1989, notably papers relating to negotiations, and press cuttings; papers relating to the inception of the Liberal Movement, 1988-1989, mainly comprising working papers of the Steering Committee; material concerning European elections, 1977-1984; Leeds City Council papers, 1986-1987; material relating to Hammersmith Liberal Association, 1987, and West Leeds Liberal Association; general Liberal Party literature, 1984-1987, including strategy papers and booklets; material concerning the enquiry into Systime [computer company], 1985-1987, including case papers, parliamentary questions and correspondence with Paddy Ashdown; correspondence and papers relating to Cyril Smith, 1975-1984; later political papers, 1990-2000, mainly relating to Meadowcroft's role in the relaunched Liberal Party.

      Meadowcroft , Michael James , b 1942 , Liberal politician
      Max Lock Archive
      GB 1753 MLA · Fonds · 1936-1988

      Papers of Max Lock, 1936-1988, produced and collected by Max Lock and the Max Lock Group, relate to Lock's career as a planner and architect and to wider issues in planning, particularly after World War Two, and comprise working papers (including survey papers) and finished material.

      They include correspondence; notes and card indexes; photographs (some aerial), slides, drawings, maps and plans; Bills, Acts, white papers and other official publications; books, articles, reports and other publications (some annotated); typescripts; press cuttings; and conference papers. The bulk of the material dates from the 1940s to the early 1970s. Material relating to Lock's career and projects within the UK includes papers on his time as a Watford councillor and his architectural practice in the 1930s, including a timber house he designed at Stanmore, Middlesex; Hull, 1939-1957, including conflicts between Lock and his superiors; Scalby, 1940-1941; Middlesborough, 1943-1970; Hartlepool, 1946-1970; Portsmouth, 1948-1973; Salisbury, 1949-1969; Sutton Coldfield, 1950-1967; Bedford, 1950-1971; Sevenoaks, 1954-1965; Aberdare, 1957-1959; Stratford (West Ham), 1957-1962; Hackney and Shoreditch, 1960-1971; Woodley, 1962-1969; Oldham, 1962-1971; Covent Garden, 1963-1971; Battle, 1964; Brentford and Chiswick, 1964-1970; Torbay, 1968-1969; Dunstable, 1968-1972; Greater London Development Plan Inquiry, 1969-1971, and other material on GLC planning and transport; Beverley, 1969-1972. Material on projects and visits overseas includes papers on Scandinavia, 1937-1939, 1946-1949; India, Pakistan and Ceylon, 1946-1955; the Netherlands, including the Town Planning Institute Tour (1946), 1946-1957; the Americas, including Brazil, the West Indies and the USA, 1952-1969; Italy, 1952-1970; the Middle East, including Iraq and Jordan, 1954-1958; Australia, 1959-1960; Aden, 1960-1961; Kuwait, 1961; Nigeria, including Kaduna and Maiduguri, 1962-1975.

      The collection includes a large volume of accumulated material, 1944-1987, largely printed material by other authors, including other planners, planning bodies and architects, some from architectural and planning journals and from the national and regional press, on planning and related issues both in the UK and overseas, such as planning law and procedures; central and local government and administration; public inquiries; housing; historic buildings; urban development; industry and retail; transport infrastructure, including roads and ports; traffic, noise, and the environment; social and economic issues including employment, labour, and social class; population levels and density; public amenities and utilities; land use and open space; and statistical data. Some papers relate to the affairs, including legal and financial matters, of the Max Lock Group; the architectural work of Max Lock and Partners; premises in Victoria Square, London; and the Max Lock Group Nigeria. Papers of or concerning Lock himself include his notebooks and other papers reflecting the development of his ideas; papers relating to publications and broadcasts; papers relating to professional bodies, including the TPI, RIBA, TCPA and UDAG; personal correspondence; photographs of him and his friends; papers on music and architecture, including lecture notes; articles about Lock, and his obituary in the Independent, 3 May 1988.

      Lock , Cecil Max , 1909-1988 , architect and town planner
      COL/MH/MSH · Collection · 1728-1994
      Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

      Records relating to the Mansion House, including minute books of the Mansion House Committee (which oversaw construction), 1734-1788; papers of the Mansion House Committee, including accounts submitted by contractors, 1728-1810; papers relating to the construction of Mansion House and subsequent maintenance, 1730-1992; pamphlet entitled City corruption and mal-administration display'd; occasion'd by the the Management of the Publick Money in general: with some Remarks upon the modest Enquiry into the Conduct of the Court of Aldermen, etc., addressed to the Citizens of London against the ensuing Election for Common Councilmen. By a citizen. London. Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Annual in Warwick Lane, 1738, protesting at alleged corruption in the allocation of contracts for the building of Mansion House; contracts for work done at Mansion House, 1738-1749; catalogue raisonné of the principal articles of furniture and other objects of artistic and historical importance at the Mansion House, London, 1953; account of dilapidations of furniture at the Mansion House, 1787; inventories of the furniture and other effects at the Mansion House, 1752-1898; catalogue of the Mansion House Plate Collection, 1970?; a list of the plate, with the inscriptions thereon, at the Mansion House of the City of London, 1888; Plate Books, containing particulars of plate as contained in the annual Plate Indentures, and signed by the Plate Butler, 1835-1970; articles and guidebooks about the history of Mansion House, 1925-1994; visitor's books, 1875-1876 and 1919-1920; tenders submitted to the General Purposes Committee of the Common Council for the supply of dinner, dessert, tea and coffee and glass services for 300 persons for use at the Mansion House, 1875 and order of the Court of Common Council offering a reward of £50 for the discovery of persons who took part in a riot and broke the windows and lamps at the Mansion House, 1768.

      Corporation of London
      GB 0074 CLC/257 · Collection · 1950-1979

      Boundary marks of City of London parishes and some parishes in Westminster, Middlesex and Southwark: research notes, photographs and drawings made by Leonard Maguire, 1950s-1970s.

      Maguire , Leonard J , fl 1950-1980 , historian
      GB 0097 MACCOLL · c1930-c1960

      Papers of James Eugene MacColl MP, comprising files on subjects such as Africa, the Church, crime and delinquency, education, housing and planning, local government in theory and practice, and race relations; papers relating to the Labour Party and parliamentary matters; personal papers; writings; and correspondence with constituents.

      MacColl, James Eugene, 1908-1971, Labour MP
      LOWE, Eveline Mary
      GB 106 7EML · Fonds · 1924-1972

      The archive consists of awards and certificates presented to Lowe, a commemorative album describing her achievements, various photographs, medals, memorabilia, press cuttings and publications.

      Lowe , Eveline Mary , 1869-1956 , nee Farren , teacher and labour activist
      LONDON STRATEGIC POLICY UNIT
      LSPU · Collection · 1900-1988

      LSPU/CS: Central Services, 1982-1988, including secretariat files, legal opinions, committee documentation, information videotapes and audiotapes, posters.

      LSPU/DIR: Director's Papers, 1961-1987, including files of P Brayshaw and D Stevenson as Directors of the Policy Unit.

      LSPU/EPG: Economic Policy Group, 1900-1987, including GLC Popular Planning Unit photographs, research project files, files of the Economic Policy group and files of the GLC Industry and Employment Branch.

      LSPU/PMRG: Police Monitoring and Research Group, 1986-1987, comprising copies of 'Policing London' press cuttings bulletin.

      LSPU/PPG: Planning Policy Group, 1965-1987, including Land Use Survey files and plans, GLC Development Planning Branch, policy division files, files of GLC Planning Studies Group on Tourism, office survey files from the GLC Central Policy Unit, files on the statistical analysis of planning decisions, planning files.

      LSPU/PUB: Publications by the London Strategic Policy Unit.

      LSPU/RAG: Recreation and Arts Group policy files, 1986-1987.

      LSPU/REPG: Race Equality Policy Group, 1968-1987, including files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit, files of the GLC Recreation and Arts Department Race Equality Unit, files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit Irish team, files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit Industry and Employment Section, policy team files, 'Patrolling the Frontline' press cuttings bulletin, grants files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit, Development Team files, files of A Wong, Principal Race Equality Adviser, files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit on the Anti-Racist Year Programme.

      LSPU/TG: Transport Group, 1972-1988, including policy files, files of the GLC Public Transport Campaign Unit, and plans.

      LSPU/WEG: Women's Equality Group, 1981-1988, including GLC Women's Committee Support Unit; policy files; files on childcare provision; exhibition boards; files of grant monitoring and administration files.

      London Strategic Policy Unit , Greater London Council
      GB 0074 LMA/4198 · Collection · 1892-1894

      Records of the London (South) Quarter Sessions, 1892-1894, comprising applications for changes to status of highways in South London, originally filed with Newington Sessions House.

      London (South) Quarter Sessions
      LONDON MUNICIPAL SOCIETY
      GB 0074 CLC/088 · Collection · 1894-1963

      London Municipal Society records comprising annual general meetings minutes, 1894-1962 (Ms 19526); council meetings minutes, 1894-1950 (Ms 19527); and executive committee meetings minutes, 1894-1963 (Ms 19528).

      London Municipal Society