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      GB 0074 DRO/150 · Collection · 1840-1957

      Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Twickenham, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; registers of burials; registers of banns of marriage; registers of church services; and registers of preachers.

      Parish of Holy Trinity, Twickenham , Church of England
      GB 0074 P95/TRI2 · Collection · 1855-1983

      Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; papers relating to the maintenance of the church; papers relating to the vicarage; financial records; and papers relating to parish societies.

      Parish of Holy Trinity, Upper Tooting , Church of England
      GB 0074 P95/TRI3 · Collection · 1886-1952

      Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, West Hill, Wandsworth, including baptisms 1874-1950; marriages 1886-1952; banns of marriage 1891-1984; service registers 1877-1986; building committee minutes and fund book; faculties and licences for church; accounts, ledgers, cash books, churchwarden accounts and pew rent books; vestry minutes 1909-1921; Parochial Church Council minutes 1914-1982; standing committee minutes; plans. photographs and correspondence and memoranda.

      Parish of Holy Trinity, Wandsworth , Church of England
      GB 0074 DRO/162 · Collection · 1932-1990

      Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Wealdstone, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns of marriage; preachers' book; registers of services; papers relating to alterations to parish boundaries; papers relating to the construction or maintenance of the church, vicarage and church hall; Vestry meeting minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes, reports, correspondence and papers; programmes and invitations for parish events; financial accounts; papers of parish societies and clubs; and printed items including newspaper cuttings, newsletters and annual reports.

      Parish of Holy Trinity, Wealdstone , Church of England
      GB 0074 DRO/044 · Collection · 1908-1996

      Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Winchmore Hill, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage, church services; Parochial Church Council and Vestry meetings minutes; and Fund Raising and Appeal Committee minutes.

      Parish of Holy Trinity, Winchmore Hill , Church of England
      GB 0074 P97/TRI · Collection · 1880-1940

      Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Beresford Square, Woolwich, registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; legal documents relating to parish property; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; and financial accounts.

      Parish of Holy Trinity, Woolwich , Church of England
      GB 0074 ACC/0809 · Collection · 1200?-1953

      Records of Horne, Engall and Freeman, solicitors, [1200]-1953, consisting of practice papers, records deriving from clerkships and other official capacities and Mr Scott Freeman's personal records, collection of maps and prints of Middlesex and printed material on the history of Staines. The material relates predominantly to Staines but also includes Ashford, Cranford, Egham, Feltham and Stanwell.

      Horne, Engall and Freeman , solicitors
      HOUSING DEPARTMENT: FINANCE
      LCC/HSG/FIN · Collection · 1908-1934
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the London County Council Housing Department relating to finance, 1908-1934, including estimates for the Becontree Estate and Old Oak Estate; loan sanctions for local housing operations by Bermondsey Borough Council, Poplar Borough Council, Wandsworth Borough Council and Woolwich Borough Council; subsidy registers, containing copies of reports and Council minutes fixing rents and giving estimated financial results, lists of houses subject to special conditions and copies of completion certificates, for the Becontree Estate, Castelnau Estate, Wormholt Estate, White Hart Lane Estate and Downham Estate.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      HOUSING DEPARTMENT: GENERAL
      LCC/HSG/GEN · Collection · 1845-1971
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the London County Council Housing Department, 1845-1971, including subject and policy files regarding the Becontree Estate; Old Oak Estate; National Housing and Town Planning Council; visits to estates and to the Housing Department Chart Room; correspondence; rents; Norbury Estate; Roehampton Estate Tenants Association; Watling Estate; White Hart Lane Estate, Tottenham and the Bellingham Estate.

      Selection of reports relating to the Housing of the Working Classes, bound into volumes; annual reports of the Housing Committee; Housing Manager's annual reports and statistical tables; Workmen's Trains: report of the case of LCC and others versus Great Eastern Railway Company and others before the Railway and Canal Commission of the High Court; evidence from the Inquiry into the Whitecross Street Scheme; Housing notebook containing particulars of the Council's Estates and Dwellings; lecture "Working Class Dwellings - the Rebuilding of the Boundary Street Estate" by Owen Fleming, assistant architect to LCC; lecture "Overcrowded London" by R.M Beachcroft, LCC alderman; speech "A Remedy for Overcrowding in London" by Henry Jephson; lecture "Slum Areas in London" by Cecil B Levita, chairman of the LCC Housing Committee; LCC Housing Progress Handbook.

      Plans and details of Standard Types of LCC Housing Accommodation; Acts of Parliament relating to housing functions and lodging houses; plans referred to in schemes made under the Housing of the Working Classes Act; map and guide to LCC housing estates; samples of tenant's handbooks; Code of Instructions for the Guidance of Superintendents of Estates; rent books and tenancy file of a model tenant on the Downham Estate; large poster inviting applications for tenancy of LCC dwellings, listing all estates with details of accommodation and rents; samples of completed application forms for tenancy of Council houses and flats.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      LCC/HSG/PP · Collection · 1950-1965
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Housing Estate Plans from the London County Council Housing Department, 1950-1965, for the following estates:

      Ainsworth Estate, Hampstead

      Albion Street Areas, Bermondsey

      Ashburton Estate, Chartfield Avenue, Wandsworth

      Avebury Estate, Turin Street Site, Bethnal Green

      Avery Hill, Woolwich

      Barn Elms Park Site, Wandsworth

      Baxter Grove Areas, Islington

      Baylis Road, Lambeth

      Beckenham Hill Road, Lewisham

      Bellingham Estate Extension, Lewisham

      Besson Street Area, Deptford

      Blessington Road Site, Lewisham

      Boreham Wood Estate, Hertfordshire

      Regal Cinema Site, Bromley High Street and Bow Road, Poplar

      Bricknall Place areas, Lambeth

      Broadway Site, Hackney

      Bromley Road Extension, Lewisham

      Brook Lane Site, Greenwich

      Browning Estate, Townley Street Site, Southwark

      Burdett Estate Extension, Stepney

      Burlington Road Site, Fulham

      Butterswick Cottages, Hammersmith

      Campbell House Site, Woolwich

      Carnbrook Road Site, Greenwich

      Caroline Estate Extension, Hammersmith

      Castle House, Woolwich

      Cherry Garden Site, Bermondsey

      Church Crescent, Hackney

      Colebrook Row Area, Islington

      Cordelia Street, Poplar

      Creek Road Site, Lewisham

      Dartmouth Road Site, Lewisham

      Dodson Street Site, Southwark

      Dove Row Extension, Shoreditch

      East Dulwich Estate Extension, Camberwell

      East India Dock Road Site

      Eastman Street Site, Bethnal Green

      Elmington Estate

      Ember Street Site, Bermondsey

      Fayland Estate, Wandsworth

      Finchley Road Development, Hampstead

      Flamstead Estate Extension, Greenwich

      Frampton Park, Hackney

      Gauden Road Site, Wandsworth

      Giffrin Street Site Extension Reginald Road site, Deptford

      Glamis Road Site, Stepney

      Grove Street site, Deptford

      Hawgood Street site, Poplar

      Heathside Estate, Greenwich

      Hedgers Grove, Hackney

      Heston Street Area, Deptford

      Hilgrove Estate, Finchley Road, Hampstead

      Hilldrop Estate, Islington

      Hillside Gardens Estate Extension, Wandsworth

      Hobson's Place, Stepney

      Jackman Street site, Hackney

      Jamaica Road site, Bermondsey

      Kender Street Area, Deptford

      Kidbrooke Park Estate Extension, Greenwich

      King Henry Street, Islington

      Lancaster Street site, Southwark

      Lansbury Estate, Stepney and Poplar

      Lant Street site, Southwark

      Lawson Street Development, Southwark

      Lindley Estate, Camberwell

      Loampit Vale site, Lewisham

      Long Lane Areas, Bermondsey

      Longstaff Estate, Wandsworth

      Loughborough Street, Lambeth

      Lurgan Avenue Area, Fulham

      Malay Street Area, Stepney

      Maple Court, Acacia Grove, New Malden

      Mardyke Street Area, Southwark

      Maxey Road site, Woolwich

      Mill Gardens Area, Lewisham

      Milne Estate Extension, Woolwich

      Ocean Street site, Skidmore Street, Stepney

      Patmore Street site, Battersea

      Pearscroft Road, Fulham

      Pennyfields, Poplar

      Pitsea Street site, Stepney

      Polthorne Street Area, Woolwich

      Poplar High Street, Poplar

      Priory site, Wandsworth

      Prospect Estate, Farnborough, Hampshire

      Raglan Street Area, Saint Pancras

      Rapley Place, Bethnal Green

      Ravensbourne Estate, Lewisham

      Roehampton High Street site, Wandsworth

      Rowlett Street, Poplar

      Ruskin Park Estate Extension, Camberwell

      Saint George-in-the-East Hospital site, Stepney

      Saint Katherine's Way (Matilda House), Stepney

      Saint Luke's Housing Development, Old Street, Finsbury

      Saint Martin's Estate, Upper Tulse Hill Lambeth

      Saint Peter's Hospital site, Stepney

      Samuda's Wharf Site, Poplar

      Southend Lane Site, Lewisham

      Stockwell Gardens, Lambeth

      Stockwell Lane, Lambeth

      Stockwell Road Development, Lambeth

      Streatham Hill, Wandsworth

      Sydenham Hill Site, Lewisham

      Tabard Garden Extension, Southwark

      Teesdale estate, Bethnal Green

      Trafalgar Road Site, Greenwich

      Tyers Street Site, Lambeth

      Tyson Road Site, Lewisham

      Vauxhall Gardens Extension, Tate Street Site, Lambeth

      Wager Street Site, Stepney

      Wapping Estate Extension, Stepney

      Watermead Estate Extension, Lewisham

      Watson's Street, Deptford

      Welshpool Street Site, Hackney

      Weston Rise Site, Finsbury

      Whetstone Road Site, Greenwich

      White City Estate, Hammersmith

      Woodberry Down Estate, Stoke Newington

      York Hill Site, Lambeth

      Zangwill Road Sites, Greenwich

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      GB 0074 P95/IMM · Collection · 1854-1966

      Records of the parish of Immanuel, Streatham Common, including baptisms (1854-1965); marriages (1855-1966); banns of marriage (1854-1968); confirmations (1899-1900); church service registers (1859-1960); Vestry minutes (1860-1913); Parochial Church Council minutes (1913-1961); accounts (1931-1968); Immanuel Church School manager's minutes (1937-1961); cash books (1919-1943); correspondence, memoranda, plans and photographs.

      Parish of Immanuel, Streatham Common , Church of England
      ACC/3537 · Collection · 1985

      Adult Education VHS videos: "Teaching English as a second language in the Post School Sector", 1985 and "Teaching adult literacy Unit A: A mixed ability class", 1980s.

      ILEA , Inner London Education Authority x Inner London Education Authority
      INNER LONDON SESSIONS
      GB 0074 ILS · Collection · 1790-1974

      Records of the Inner London Quarter Sessions, 1790-1974.

      Papers of the Justices of the Peace, including Lord Lieutenant's papers; official lists of Justices; papers relating to the jurisdiction of Justices; papers relating to juvenile courts; correspondence and papers relating to the County of London Magistrates Club.

      Papers of the Court in Session, including sessions rolls; court books; deposition books; court minute books; registers and indexes of appeals; Sheriff's inquisitions and returns; depositions; certificates of conviction; orders of court; reports and correspondence regarding the Mental Deficiency Acts; calendars of prisoners; estreat papers and rolls; and calendars of viticular licences.

      Administrative papers including staff books; papers relating to probationers; County of London Standing Joint Committee minutes and papers; Committee of Quarter Sessions papers; Magistrates' Court Committee minutes and papers; County of London Licensing Committee papers and reports; County of London Licensing Planning Committee minutes and applications and County Confirming and Compensation Committee papers and reports.

      Documents registered with the Court including papers relating to licences; maps and plans showing petty sessional divisions, borough boundaries, licensed premises and roads; papers relating to railways; lists of blind persons; register of parliamentary deposits and reports from the Commissioners on the State of the Roads.

      Papers of the Clerk of the Peace and the Treasurer, including cash book; papers relating to County Days; correspondence relating to borough maps; general correspondence; indexes of deposited records and plans; and summaries of costs of criminal prosecutions.

      Inner London Quarter Sessions
      ISLINGTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS
      ISBG · Collection · 1864-1933

      Records of the Islington Poor Law Parish, 1864-1933, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; Committee reports; Guardian's diaries; standing orders; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics; lunatic case papers; registers for the Shadwell Road Workhouse (later the Cornwallis Road Workhouse), Highgate Hill Workhouse and Infirmary, Saint John's Road Workhouse and Infirmary, and Liverpool Road Workhouse; registers of children, including servants and apprentices, children boarded out, children in the workhouse and at other institutions; children's case papers; registers of children at the Receiving Homes, Hornsey Rise and the Andover Children's Home, Hornsey Road; financial accounts and staff records.

      Islington Poor Law Parish x Islington Board of Guardians
      JACOBS FAMILY
      CLA/061 · Collection · 1841-1966

      Papers of Major Harry Ronald Jacobs and his father Hyman Jacobs acquired during their service as Common Councilmen, including programmes and menus from Corporation and linked functions, 1938-1966; programmes and menus from non-Corporation functions including London County Council 1960, Freemasons 1948-1965, Bassishaw Ward 1962, Portsoken Ward 1946-1963, Livery Companies: Haberdashers' Company 1960-1961, Paviors' Company 1947-1966, Skinners' Company no date [c. 1950s?], Solicitors' Company 1960, Wheelwrights' Company 1964, City Pickwick Club 1962-1966, City University 1966, United Synagogue Orders of Service 1960; official Corporation publications and guides; art, library and museum catalogues 1950-1965; brochures from the Festival of the City of London 1962-1966; and publication The Corporation of the City of London and the First Twelve of the Great City Guilds in the Diamond Jubilee Year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897. Also Broker's Medal of Charles Telford, 1841.

      Jacobs , Harry Ronald , 1912-1966 , Major , Common Councilman Jacobs , Hyman , 1888-1945 , Common Councilman Telford , Charles , ? 1876 , Stock broker
      GB 0097 JEGER · Collection · 1943-2004

      Papers of Lena May Jeger, 1943-2004, mainly correspondence, reports, briefings, speeches, photographs and other papers relating to her work as a local councillor, MP and member of the House of Lords. Also includes draft articles, correspondence and other papers relating to her time as a journalist.

      Jeger , Lena May , 1915-2007 , Baroness , journalist and politician
      GB 0097 JENKINS · 1945-1970

      Papers relating to Jenkins' early political career, including material concerning the Suez Crisis, post-war Czechoslovakia, the National Union of Bank Employees, and industrial welfare; papers relating to Jenkins' time on the London County Council; parliamentary papers on subjects including the Arts and foreign visits; Jenkins' diary as Minister for the Arts; papers relating to Putney Labour Party, including constituency correspondence, publicity material, 'Why: Putney Labour Monthly', 'Voice: Putney Labour Party', and photocopies of press cuttings from 'Battersea News'; publications and scripts for broadcasts by or concerning Jenkins; pocket diaries and personal ephemera; photographs of public engagements; papers relating to Jenkins' work with Rangoon Radio; and papers relating to Victory for Socialism.

      Jenkins, Hugh Gater, b 1908, Baron Jenkins of Putney, politician
      GB 0074 ACC/0704 · Collection · 1726-1920

      Papers of Jessop and Gough, solicitors, 1726-1920, including practice papers; papers arising from work as clerks to Edmonton petty sessions, relating to licensing, rates, school attendance and certain other matters; list of Guardians of Edmonton Union, elected between 1865 and 1879; vestry papers for Waltham Abbey parish, and correspondence. The papers relate mainly to Edmonton and Enfield, but also Wood Green, Kentish Town, Islington, Waltham Abbey, Hendon, Ponders End, Cricklewood, Lea Valley, Harrow, Lee, Catford and Tottenham.

      Jessop and Gough , solicitors
      GB 0074 DRO/046 · Collection · 1835-1989

      Records of Jesus Church, Enfield, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage and church services; papers relating to the benefice and glebe lands; papers relating to the church building including correspondence regarding alterations and restorations, faculties, plans, reports and surveys; Churchwardens' annual reports; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to almshouses; and parish magazines.

      Parish of Jesus Church, Enfield , Church of England
      John Burns Collection
      GB 0347 D170 · Collection · 1886-1943

      A collection of material put together for an exhibition about the Battersea MP John Burns. Includes: correspondence; photographs; publications by and about John Burns; correspondence, annual reports and other material relating to the Battersea Labour Party and Trades Council; bulletins relating to the 1926 General Strike.

      Please contact the Archive for further information.
      JOINT WARD COLLECTIONS
      GB 0074 CLC/W/ZA · Collection · 1709

      Two receipts signed by the deputies of the wards of Bridge and Candlewick for money received towards providing for the poor and list of jurors (inquest men) for the wards of Farringdon Within and Langbourn.

      Various.
      GB 0097 JOYCE · Collection · 1997-1998

      Papers of Professor Paul Joyce, 1997-1998, include minutes, financial papers, newsletters and publications relating to the User-Led Innovation in Local Government research project.

      Joyce , Paul , b 1952 , Professor of Strategic Management
      GB 0074 ACC/3743 · Collection · 1949-1979

      Papers relating to the work of Witold Kay-Korzeniewicz, including development plans, photographs and reports for Paternoster Square, Saint Paul's Cathedral, Heathrow Airport, Elephant and Castle, King's Cross Station, Saint Pancras Station, South Bank, Festival of Britain, London Underground, Wembley Stadium, Grand Union Canal, and Warren Street Station.

      Korzeniewicz , Witold , Kay- , fl 1949-1979 , town planner x Kay-Korzeniewicz , Witold , fl 1949-1979 , town planner
      KBG · Collection · 1837-1931

      Records of the Kensington Poor Law Union, 1837-1931, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; standing orders; year books; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics; lunatic reception orders; registers of paupers in various hospitals; apprenticeship indentures; registers of children at the Kensington and Chelsea Branch School (Marlesford Lodge, Hammersmith), and the Kensington and Chelsea District School, Banstead; registers of boys and girls in employment; financial accounts and staff records.

      Kensington Poor Law Union x Kensington Board of Guardians
      GB 0074 ACC/0333 · Collection · 1585-1933

      Records of Kent and Sons, solicitors, 1831-1923, including solicitor's diaries; financial records; day books; ledgers; letter books; clerk's records; returns of property; accounts of building materials; labour account book; estate records and attendance book.

      Also client records, 1585-1933, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including Hampton parish records; maps and plans; papers relating to property, legal, family, parish, local government and businesses. These records include information relating to parish poor relief in Hampton.

      Hampton Court Gas Company records, 1850-1892, including the deed of settlement, contracts and specifications, bills and receipts, lists of share-holders and share certificates, title deeds to property, correspondence and the seal of the company.

      Kent and Sons , solicitors
      GB 0097 COLL MISC 0609 · Collection · 1920

      Minutes and papers of the Labour Party Advisory Committee on Local Government Sub-Committee on Town Planning, relating to local government reorganisation, by C M Lloyd, G D H Cole, F W Jowett and W Rees Jeffreys, for a meeting on 26 Mar 1920.

      Labour Party Advisory Committee on Local Government , Sub-Committee on Town Planning
      GB 0074 P92/LDM · Collection · 1884-1977

      Papers of Lady Margaret Church, Chatham Street, Walworth including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; church services registers; papers of church clubs and societies; faculties; a history of the church; and parish magazines.

      Lady Margaret Church, Walworth , Church of England
      LAMBETH BOARD OF GUARDIANS
      LABG · Collection · 1834-1930

      Records of Lambeth Poor Law Union, 1834-1930, including minutes of the Board of Guardians; minutes of the Finance Committee and the Ladies Committee; correspondence with Government departments; orders and rule of the Poor Law Commissioners; Board of Guardians handbook; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; detention orders; registers of lunatics; registers from the Princes Road Workhouse, the Renfrew Road Workhouse, the Brook Drive Infirmary and the Home for the Aged Poor, West Norwood; registers of wives of interned aliens, First World War; registers of emigrated children; apprenticeship indentures; registers of apprentices and servants; registers of children at the Norwood Schools; financial accounts; staff records and building plans for Norwood Schools and Lambeth Infirmary.

      Lambeth Poor Law Parish x Lambeth Board of Guardians
      LANGBOURN WARD
      GB 0074 CLC/W/KA · Collection · 1682-1907

      Records of the Langbourn Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, rate assessments and inhabitants lists, administrative papers and records of assistance sought from the benevolent fund. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

      Langbourn Ward , Corporation of London
      LANGBOURN WARD SCHOOL
      GB 0074 CLC/215-15 · Collection · 1738-1875

      The only surviving records of Langbourn Ward School are trustees' minutes from 1738 and a set of rules.

      Langbourn Ward School
      GB 0097 LANSBURY · 1877-1940

      Lansbury's personal and political correspondence; correspondence between Lansbury's biographer, Raymond Postgate, and others after his death; correspondence and papers on subjects of interest to Lansbury, including schools, the Labour Party, unemployment, agriculture, India, the 1931 Cabinet Crisis, and the Metropolitan Police; photographs, personal and official, and caricatures from the press; press reviews of Lansbury's published works; printed matter, including articles, pamphlets, speeches and leaflets by or concerning Lansbury, election addresses, and personal ephemera. Volumes 1 - 26 consist of the personal and political correspondence and papers used by Lansbury's son-in-law, Raymond Postgate, in researching The Life of George Lansbury, published in 1951. These papers were presented to the British Library of Political and Economic Science by Professor Postgate in 1950. Volumes 27 - 30 were added to the collection some time later, and volume 31 consists of three files of personal correspondence which were added to the collection in 1994 and one file found in 1999.

      Lansbury, George, 1859-1940, Labour politician
      LATHAM (FIRST LORD)
      GB 0074 LMA/4062 · Collection · 1913-1970

      Records of Lord Charles Latham, leader of the London County Council, consisting of reports, papers, correspondence, notebooks and diaries including photographs and press cuttings belonging to Lord Latham.

      Latham , Charles , 1888-1970 , 1st baron Latham , local government official
      LCC/LP · Subfonds · 1867-1948
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the London County Council Legal and Parliamentary Department, 1867-1948, including Parliamentary Sessional papers (Bills and Acts) relevant to aspects of London governance, including water supply, gas supply, tramways, metage and duties, housing, electricity supply, post offices, places of entertainment, telegraphs, parks and open spaces, police and fire services, bridges and tunnels, hospitals and healthcare, railways, markets, education and schools, River Thames, local government, London County Council, construction and building, town planning and finance.

      Also reports by LCC officers, including the Chief Engineer, Architect and Parliamentary Agent, on Bills before Parliament, including bills relating to railways and other schemes affecting London; bills, private bills and provisional orders affecting London and proposals for legislation to be promoted by LCC.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      GB 0096 MS 876 · 1775

      Letter, 18 Jan 1775, signed by Louis Benigne François Bertier de Sauvigny, Intendant of Paris, to Guillaume Joseph Dupleix de Bacquencourt, Intendant of Dijon, sending him the declaration [wanting] of a beggar in official custody at Pontoise.

      Sauvigny , Louis Benigne François , Bertier de , [1737]-1789 , French administrator x Bertier de Sauvigny , Louis Benigne François
      LEWISHAM AND BROMLEY
      ACC/3013 · Collection · 1926

      Correspondence, with plan, between Bromley and Lewisham Boards of Guardians concerning county boundary passing through houses on the Downham Estate, Lewisham, 1926. At this date Bromley was in Kent while Lewisham was in London.

      Lewisham Poor Law Union x Lewisham Board of Guardians Bromley Poor Law Union x Bromley Board of Guardians
      LEWISHAM BOARD OF GUARDIANS
      LEBG · Collection · 1835-1932

      Records of the Lewisham Poor Law Union, 1835-1932, including minutes and proceedings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; annual reports and statements of accounts; rules and regulations; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; applications for relief; reception orders of lunatics; registers of lunatics; registers of the Lewisham High Street Workhouse, the Greenwich Infirmary and the Woolwich Workhouse, Plumstead; general registers of inmates; registers of inmates chargeable to Lewisham Board; registers of apprentices; registers of children at Cumberlow Lodge, South Norwood, scattered homes at Courthill Road and the North Surrey District School at Anerley; financial accounts and staff records.

      Lewisham Poor Law Union x Lewisham Boards of Guardians
      Licences to beg, Norfolk
      GB 0096 MS 684 · 1583-1593

      Nine licences and six draft licences to beg within the county of Norfolk, 1583-1593, especially within the hundreds of Blofelde [Blofield], Tunstede [Tunstead], Happinge [Happing], East and West Flegge [East and West Flegg], Walsham, Loddon, Clavering, Taverham, and in the towns of Wilton, Potter Heigham, Horsford and Horsham St. Faithes [Horsham St. Faiths], Ludham, Cromer alias Shipdom [Shipden], Hofton St. John [Hoveton St. John], Cattfield [Catfield], Hickling and Hemlingtonne [Hemblington]. Most of the originals include the signature of Edmund Scambler, Bishop of Norwich, though other signatories include Sir William Paston, Sir Thomas Berney, Miles Corlett, John Pagrave, William Blenerhayset [Blennerhassett], William Hogdon and Henry Gaudy [Gawdy]; most of the seals are wanting.
      On the dorse of item 7 is a cancelled licence of 21 Nov 1591, by Edmund Scambler, Bishop of Norwich, and Sir William Paston, to Edward Chaundeler of Barton, Norfolk, to keep an alehouse.

      Unknown
      LIME STREET WARD
      GB 0074 CLC/W/KB · Collection · 1654-1996

      Records of Lime Street Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, accounts and a list of voters. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff.

      Lime Street Ward , Corporation of London
      GB 0074 DRO/082 · Collection · 1892-1985

      Records of the parish of Saint Peter and the District Church of Little St Peter, Cricklewood, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage, and church services; financial accounts; and minutes.

      Parish of St Peter, Cricklewood , Church of England District Church of Little St Peter, Cricklewood , Church of England
      GB 0074 ACC/1428 · Collection · 1923

      Illuminated address, with list of subscribers, presented to Alderman W.G. Lobjoit, J.P. OBE, in 1923 as a testimonial of his administrative work in the parish of Heston and on the Local and County Councils, 1898-1923; with illuminated address containing the resolution of the Justices of the Peace of the Petty Sessional Division of Brentford expressing appreciation of 30 years 'distinguished service' by the Deputy Chairman, Sir William George Lobjoit, O.B.E., 1937.

      Heston County Council Brentford Magistrates Court
      LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
      GB 0074 LMA/4222 · Collection · 1911-1985

      Records of the Loal Government Association, comprising annual balances of the County Councils Association 1911-1985 and a group of records relating to Belgravia Holdings Limited.

      Local Government Association Association of County Councils
      LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL
      ACC/1409 · Collection · [1912]-1952

      London County Council register of tramway track lengths, recording description and lengths of route, street length, track length and remarks, such as "conversion to trolleybus", "abandoned" and so on, [1912-1952], with enclosures: photocopy of map of tramways in the London County Council area, revised to 1931; and diagrams of track lengths in Leyton and Hammersmith.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      ACC/3307 · Collection · 1910

      Printed election address by George Craik and Cyril Jackson, Municipal Reform candidates seeking election to the London County Council for the Limehouse, Ratcliffe and Shadwell Division, 1910.

      Jackson , Sir , Cyril , 1863-1924 , Knight , educationalist
      GB 0074 ACC/1632 · Collection · 1890-1900

      Records of the London County Council (LCC) Progressive Society, comprising minutes of the Society, including agendas and lists of candidates.

      London County Council , Progressive Society
      LONDON HISTORY WORKSHOP
      GB 0074 ACC/3704 · Collection · 1984

      Records of the London History Workshop, 1984, consisting of slide carousels relating to the 95th birthday cake exhibition and files of research relating to the history of London government.

      London History Workshop , Greater London Council
      LONDON LIBERAL PARTY
      GB 0074 LMA/4445 · Collection · 1964-1988

      The records of the London Liberal Party are of interest to anyone wishing to study local and/or national politics with reference to London. The working mechanisms of the LLP and achievements of its staff can be assessed, whilst the varying fortunes of the Local Associations and Liberal Party as a whole can be observed. Much of the material gives a fascinating insight into a range of London-wide and national issues, both familiar and contemporary. The records can also provide a useful commentary on the activities of the Greater London Council, Inner London Education Authority and others.

      London Liberal Federation x London Liberal Party
      GB 0074 CLC/163 · Collection · 1615-1998

      Collection of documents relating to local government, including:

      • Court book of the Liberty of St Martin le Grand;
        • Papers of Saint Saviour's Workhouse and the Whitechapel Union;
        • Resolution of thanks from the London School Board to the Corporation of London;
        • Tax assessments for the civil parish of Staple Inn and the Liberty of the Rolls;
        • Papers relating to the repair of roads in the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster;
        • Papers of the Tower Hamlets Libraries Department.
      School Board for London Marlborough Street Workhouse Southwark Poor Law Union x Southwark Board of Guardians x Saint Saviour's Poor Law Union x Saint Saviour's Board of Guardians Whitechapel Poor Law Union x Whitechapel Board of Guardians
      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
      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 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