Printed programme of the review of the British and Commonwealth naval and merchant fleet by HM Queen Elizabeth II at Spithead, 15 Jun 1953, including map of the review published by the Admiralty, 1953

German armed forces maps, gazetteers, and geographic charts of the United Kingdom, 1939-1944. Includes detailed study produced by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force concerning the organisation of the RAF, the strengths and locations of British aircraft production facilities, the location of RAF flight schools, airfields and anti-aircraft facilities, the location and strengths of RN facilities in Britain and the North Sea, and British aircraft carrier strengths, 1939; German harbour atlas and gazetteer produced and distributed by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force, entitled Seehafensatlas Großbritannien, detailing in 1:50,000 maps and aerial photographs, naval harbours and ports in Britain, 1940; German Navy High Command map books of naval ports and harbours in the United Kingdom, their associated agricultural and heavy industries production rates, defence facilities, and geographical locations, 1940; map books issued by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force, entitled Luftgeographisches Einzelheft Großbritannien, detailing the location of British heavy industry, gas works, water works, aircraft and naval production facilities in Britain, including 1:21,120 maps, 1940; German Army High Command book, entitled Militärgeographie Angaben über Irland, and detailing in photographs the towns, cities and countryside of Ireland and Northern Ireland; German Army Command gazetteer of Ireland and Northern Ireland, entitled Militärgeographie Angaben über Irland, listing county sizes, numbers of inhabitants, population densities, industries, and harbour and port facilities in Ireland and Northern Ireland, 1940; German Army High Command gazetteers of Britain, listing alphabetically towns and cities, their longitude and latitude co-ordinates, their respective counties, numbers of inhabitants, industrial and agricultural production rates, and trains station facilities, 1941; map book distributed by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force, entitled Britische Flugrüstungsindustrie, detailing the location, size, and production rate of ship-building and aircraft production centres in Great Britain, 1941; map books distributed by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force including detailed photographs, 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 maps, longitude and latitude co-ordinates, population density statistics, and points of reference notes for town and cities in Britain, 1943-1944

Typescript proof copy of article'German Military Mapping: An Exploratory Survey' by Andrew F Tatham, Map Curator, King's College London, for The Cartographic Journal, 1977. Also, typescript draft of same article, in which the author reviews the range and extent of German military mapping, largely of World War Two, and the role of the cartographer in supplying information during conflicts

World War Two maps of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff and the Army Map Service, US Army, including one inch to the one mile ordnance survey maps of England and Wales produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of London, Bath and Bristol, Cardiff and the mouth of the Severn, Windsor, the Isle of Wight, Weymouth and Dorchester, Bolton and Manchester, 1940-1942; one inch to the one mile ordnance survey maps of British counties produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1940-1942; 1:250,000 and 1:500,000 scale maps of Germany produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of Kiel, Hamburg, Halle, Leipzig, Lubeck, Bremen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Hannover, Osnabrück, Magdeburg, Schwerin, and Munich; Army Map Service, US Army 1:200,000 road maps of France copied from 1939 Michelin guide including of the Carcassonne-Nimes, Avignon-Digne, Auxerre-Dijon, Mons- Luxembourg, and Lyon-Geneve areas, 1943-1944; 1:100,000 map of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1:50,000 map of Arnhem, Netherlands, and 1:250,000 map of Amsterdam, Netherlands, produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1940-1944; 1:250,000 maps of Italy produced by the Geographical Section, General Staff, including of Bologna, Firenze, Genova, and Siena, 1943

A collection of twentieth century maps formerly held by the Map Library of King,s College London. A large number of maps in the collection relate to World War One. These were either produced for military use, as in the case of the British maps published by the Geographical Section, General Staff (GSGS), 1909-1918, or were produced subsequently to illustrate World War One battles and campaigns, such as the set of tracings of the strategic development of the battle of Jutland, 1916, the War Office Historical Section (Military Branch) maps of the campaign in Palestine, 1917-1918, published 1927-1929 and the French and German maps. There are several later Geographical Section, General Staff (GSGS), maps produced 1935-1953, including maps published during World War Two and a map of the area of Cassino, Italy, compiled and reproduced by 12 Polish Field Survey Company, Dec 1945. The final section consists of a number of maps and diagrams produced for use in Staff College entrance and staff/promotion examinations, 1955-1962

Home Guard training notes, booklets and maps, 1916-1943; comprising 2 folders of Home Guard papers consisting of typescript and manuscript exercise orders, training camp instructions, night training guidance, guidance notes on the use of weapons and training proficiency badge examination mark sheets, all relating to 61 Surrey (Norwood) Bn, 1941-1943; printed War Office Home Guard regulations, training and information booklets with a guide to German infantry, 1941-1943; maps of the Western Front, Belgium and France, 1916-1918, British and German, some showing trenches, focussing on the Hazebrouck and Senlis regions, and of the Western Front and of Europe in general published by the Daily Telegraph, Ordnance Survey and others; photographic panorama showing a stretch of front with identifying background features such as roads, settlements and woodland in the Neuve Chapelle area, [1916].

Papers of Edmund Myers, 1942-1981, relating to his service as Commander, of the British Military Mission to the Greek partisans in German occupied Greece, 1942-1943, Special Operations Executive (SOE). Notably on Operation HARLING and the destruction of the Gorgopotamos Viaduct, Greece, Nov 1942 and Operation WASHING, the destruction of the Asopos Viaduct, Greece, Jun 1943. Also including reports, lectures and radio broadcasts on Greece and the British Military Mission; papers relating to the National Band of Rebels formed under Allied command; papers relating to a delegation of six Greek partisans (andartes) sent to Cairo to consult with the Greek government in attempt to avoid political crisis and civil war, Aug 1943; papers on British support of Greek monarch, King George II; correspondence on Myers' attempts to return to Greece; maps related to British Military Mission; photographs of the British Military Mission including individuals, landscapes and the British Military cemetery in Athens, 1971; post-war papers on Greece including correspondence with Myers, draft copy of Greek Entanglement by Myers with scrapbook of reviews and papers relating to the funeral of Gen Napoleon Zervas.

Papers relating to Gallipoli (Faber and Faber, London, 1936), 1927-1967, principally comprising original typescript, [1936]; correspondence, 1927-1967, notably with Brig Gen Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander, 1933-1939, Gen Sir Ian (Standish Monteith) Hamilton, 1934-1941, Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 1936-1937, AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Bt, 1934-1939, and Maj Gen Arthur Cecil Temperley, 1935-1939; newspaper cuttings, [1915]-1966, including reviews of Gallipoli, 1936-1937, and cuttings relating to the Gallipoli campaign, [1915]-1966; 'Gallipoli', [script of radio programme] by Val Henry Gielgud, 1936; photographs of Gallipoli taken by North, [1936]. Papers relating to North West Europe (HMSO, London, 1953), 1943-1961, including original typescript, [1953]; correspondence, 1944-1957, notably with Liddell Hart, 1953-1954, and FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1954-1955; press cuttings, 1943-1961, comprising reviews of North West Europe, 1944-1945, dated 1953-1954, and cuttings relating to World War Two, dated 1943-1961; official US Government and HMSO publications relating to World War Two, 1945-1946. Papers relating to The Alexander memoirs (Cassell, London, 1962), dated 1941, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1959-1964, including draft copy, [1962], and published copy, 1962; correspondence, 1961-1964, notably with FM Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, 1961-1963, Liddell Hart, 1961-1962, and Montgomery, 1962; newspaper cuttings, 1945-1946, 1948, 1959-1963; photographs taken by North and Alexander on a visit to the Middle East and Italy, 1960. Other papers, [1931-1968], including articles by North, [1939-1966], notably concerning training, tactics and weaponry; correspondence, [1933-1960]; maps of UK and North West Europe, 1931-1944; press cuttings, 1939-1966, including reviews of Men Fighting (Faber and Faber, London, 1958), 1958-1959; 'Diary of the Belgian Campaign, May 1940', typescript text by AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, dated [1940].

Papers comprising printed or typescript reports and supporting publications, on the 1 Army, North Africa, Civil Affairs Staff Centre (CASC), and on the administration of civilians in occupied territory including the Control Commission Germany (CCG), 1885-1947; notably comprising printed and typescript instructions, orders and reports issued by the Provost Marshal's Office, 1 Army, North Africa, including on traffic control, stores, planning, lessons learnt from the operations, intelligence summaries, 1 Army newsletters, 'Crusade', with an air raid precautions poster from Algeria, 1939-1943; reports and typescript summaries relating to the Civil Affairs Staff Centre (CASC), on 'captivity neurosis', the economics and finance of wartime Europe, fire and civil defence, road transport, military writing, the welfare of occupied populations, Nazi doctrines, files of information on national temperaments and characteristics of various occupied countries including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Italy, 1943-1944; appointments diary compiled by Paton Walsh (1945), memoranda, correspondence and papers on aspects of the German penal system under the Nazis and Allied occupation, notably the police, procedures, juvenile courts, penal statistics from Nazi Germany, 1929-1947, including copies of British Zone Review, Nov 1945-Dec 1946; papers on the Control Commission Germany including confidential reports on police trainees, lectures given by Paton Walsh, the purging of Nazis from office, training and planning for post-Nazi administration, training and organisation of the penal system in Allied occupied Germany with observations on the regulation of the system under the Weimar Republic and the National Socialists, precautions against sabotage directed against occupying forces, 1943-1946; witnesses' depositions in the Nuremberg trials, account of Brendonk Concentration Camp, defence positions of the Gestapo, Sturm Abteilung (SA), 1945-1946; papers on Cologne Prison, including an autobiographical account and journal of Rudolf Kirsch, prisoner, and correspondence, 1939-1944, papers on executions at Cologne Prison with copies of the last letters of the condemned, 1941-1944; publications in English on military law, police and transport, mainly manuals, regulations and information notes on Imperial policing, traffic patrols, military law, inspection and care of vehicles, 1917-1945; publications on the Allied occupation of Germany, consisting of notes on the military government of occupied territory, internment camps, contact lists for civil administrators, Who's who in occupied Europe, chart of the Nazi administrative structure, re-education programmes, maps and gazetteers of Germany, Austria and Denmark, 1943-1945; American publications, namely civil affairs information guides, fileld manual of military government, an entertainment guide for American soldiers entitled, 'What's Cooking in Berlin', copies of The Stars and Stripes and the New York Herald Tribune, 1940-1946; general military handbooks including guidance for officers on allowances, the training of Army tradesmen, training manuals on air support of infantry and the use of parachute troops, catering, defence of aerodromes against attack, the disposition of unit records, signals, mine clearance, anti-malarial precautions, 1939-1943; Army Education booklets in a series entitled 'The British Way and Purpose', 1942-1943; German language publications on law, crime and prisons especially regulations, criminal biology, youth crime, 1885-1942; German National Socialist publications on topics ranging from flying schools, the SA in Berlin to the beginnings of radio broadcasting,1926-1946; maps, mainly Ordnance Survey and Stanfords, of United Kingdom cities and counties, including Wolverhampton, Winchester, Dover, East Sussex and Suffolk, 1913-1940; maps of Germany, central and eastern Europe, 1936-[1945]; maps of Algeria, French North Africa, Tunisia, 1942; propaganda cartoon and other posters published by the Evening Standard, Stationery Office and Army Bureau of Current Affairs, 1944; 1 file of telegrams, commission of 1918 and details of the various promotions of Paton Walsh, 1916-1947.

Copy of dossier containing maps, plans and technical data on the port of Boulogne, produced by the Director of Ports and Inland Water Transport, War Office, for the use of port construction and repair companies engaged on the rehabilitation of ports damaged by enemy action, [1943-1944].

Prentice's manuscript diaries, mainly detailing his services at General Headquarters, Middle East Command, Cairo, Egypt, including mention of Long Range Desert Group operations in the Western Desert, 1942; manuscript diaries and notebooks kept by Prentice and Wickstead, mainly relating to SOE operations in West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944; reports, mainly compiled by Allied Military Mission personnel, detailing demolition, intelligence and reconnaissance missions in West Macedonia, combined missions with Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 9 Div, liaison operations with Raiding Support Regiment and US Operational Group 7 personnel, sabotage targets, and administrative and operational procedures, 1943-1944; papers, in Greek, mainly relating to ELAS partisan activities in West Macedonia, including a copy of the 'National Bands Agreement', memoranda to Allied Military Mission regarding struggles with Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES) factions, political proclamations and ELAS propaganda; papers, in Greek, relating to Greek partisan forces not under the jurisdiction of the Allied Military Mission, including memoranda, propaganda and military orders from the Ellinikos Ethnikis Stratos (EES) and Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE) and official Greek government notices, 1943- 1944; maps and photographs of Allied Military Mission areas of operation, 1943- 1944; correspondence between Allied Military Mission commanders and sub-area commanders, 1943-1944, including correspondence between Greek partisan commanders and Prentice, 1944; personal letters from Allied personnel to Prentice, 1946-1955; correspondence between Wickstead, Officer Commanding Signals, Area 1, and Allied personnel, 1944; papers relating to wireless/telegraphy signals, Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; papers, relating mainly to the administration and supply of the Allied Military Mission; German papers, including German 1 Mountain Div operational orders, propaganda, personal letters from German soldiers to family members and German-language newspapers; Greek political papers, notably including propaganda newspapers and party leaflets, including letters to Maj Gen Arthur Wilmot Wadeson Holworthy, 1941-1946; Wickstead's post-war index of Allied Military Mission signals, [1989]; papers relating to post-war publications about SOE operations in Greece, including the working papers for Lt Col Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond's, The Allied Military Mission and the Resistance in West Macedonia (Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, 1993); post-war Greek newspapers, leaflets and war memorial publications, 1945-[1991]. 3.3.4 Arrangement: Arranged in the following sections: diaries and notebooks of Maj Ronald R Prentice and Capt H Arthur Wickstead, 1942-1944; documents and papers relating to Allied Military Mission operations, West Macedonia, 1943-1944; papers relating to Greek partisan activities, 1943-1944; maps and photographs of Allied Military Mission areas of operations, 1943-1944; correspondence between Allied Military Mission commanders, 1943-1944 and former Greek partisans, 1946-1955; papers relating to wireless/telegraphy signals, Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; papers relating to the administration, finances and logistics of the Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; German papers, documents and newspapers during the occupation of Greece, 1943-1944; Greek political papers, documents and newspapers, 1941-1946; Wickstead's post-war partial index of signals, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, [1989]; papers relating to post-war publications about the resistance movement in West Macedonia, [1989-1991]; post- war Greek newspapers, leaflets and war memorial publications, 1945-[1991].

Newspaper cuttings mostly from The Irish Times, Evening Herald and The Globe, 1899-1901, relating to the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902. Papers and photographs relating to the Mohmand Field Force, North West Frontier, India, May-Jun 1908, including pocket diary detailing operations of 1 Bn, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regt) against Mohmand tribesmen, 1908; typescript extract, written on 13 Aug 1908, from the Record of Service of 1 Bn, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regt), Mohmand Expedition, May-Jun 1908; fifty nine mostly captioned photographs of the Mohmand Field Force, 1908, including the defences of H Company, 1 Bn, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regt), Mutta camp, North West Frontier, India, 1908; two printed maps of the North West Frontier, India [1908]; printed booklet entitled Standing Orders for Mohmand Field Force, May 1908 by Maj Gen Sir James Willcocks (Victoria Press, Peshawar, India, 1908); cutting from The Sphere with printed map of 'Mohmand country', 9 May 1908. Five letters from Riall to his father and sister, and to Riall from his mother, 1906-1910, with letter to Riall from Sgt Lipscombe, 1 Bn, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regt), relating to a Battalion shooting competition, 30 Mar 1910.

Papers of John Patrick Ryland, comprising papers relating to the Home Guard, 1940-1944 and collected material relating to World War One, 1916-1918, Home Guard papers, 1940-1944, comprise published material including Home Guard instructions on training 1940-1944; regulations, 1942, and training manuals, 1940-1944 and unpublished material including instructions for training exercises; notes from training courses and Home Guard examination papers; map of 'Hazebrouck 5a, Belgium', edition 2, scale 1:100,000, Geographical Section, General Staff, No. 2364, published by Ordnance Survey ,1916; map of the Somme, France entitled 'Special Sheet, edition 2 A' showing British and enemy trenches corrected from information received up to 24 Jun 1918, scale 1:20,000, published by the Field Survey Co. No. 3790; German map of France, Belgium and the Netherlands entitled 'Spezialkarte der Nördlichen Westfront' Flemmingskriegskarte No 23, scale 1:320,000, 1916 and 120 degree panoramic photograph Number 304 of the Somme from North North West to East created for the Fourth Army, 16 Nov 1916 and Daily Telegraph War Map of Europe, World War Two, specially prepared for The Daily Telegraph by the London Geographical Institute, displaying neutral and belligerent countries, scale 50 miles = 1 inch.

Photocopies of correspondence and photographs, taken from five albums, relating to Sclater's career, 1898-1927, including letter from FM Sir (Henry) Evelyn Wood, Adjutant General to the Forces, confirming Sclater's appointment as Bde Maj, Aldershot, 1898; seventeen copies of photographs and nine sketch maps relating to the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902, including photographs of Bloemfontein and Brandfort, Orange Free State, and sketch maps of the Battles of Modder River, Nov 1899 and Paardeberg Drift, Feb 1900; two photographs of the 13 pounder Quick Fire gun, newly issued to the Royal Horse Artillery, 1904; letter from Lt Col Rt Hon Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham, thanking Sclater for congratulatory letter on the award of a peerage to Stamfordham, 1911; three photographs of Indian Army sepoys, 1912; correspondence, 1912- 1917, including letters relating to recruitment, military inspections and the availability of manpower from FM Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, Feb 1917, Gen Sir (Henry Macleod) Leslie Rundle, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, Feb-May 1916, and Lt Gen Sir (Cecil Frederick) Nevil Macready, Adjutant General to the Forces, Jul 1917; letter to Slater from Gen Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, relating to riots in Egypt, Jun 1920; letter to Sclater from Lt Gen Sir George Fletcher MacMunn, Quartermaster General, India, dated Jun 1921, relating to the political and military situation in India, particularly in the aftermath of the massacre of 479 Indian civilians by troops of the Indian Army, commanded by Brig Gen Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, Amritsar, Punjab, Apr 1919; printed obituary of Sclater [1927].

Papers relating to the campaign in France, 1940, including copy of typescript War Diary, written by Scott Elliot, of 154 Infantry Bde, 1-30 Jun 1940, on the withdrawal and evacuation of 'Ark Force' from Cherbourg, 15 Jun 1940, and copy of typescript 'ARK Force Operation Order No 2', 11 Jun 1940. Papers relating to Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945, including copy of typescript War Diary, written by Scott Elliot, Commanding Officer, 8 Bn, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), on the attack on Centuripe, Sicily, Aug 1943, with typescript retrospective account entitled '8 Bn The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders at Centuripe' [1947]; typescript account by Scott Elliot on operations of 167 (London) Infantry Bde, Italy, Sep-Oct 1944; copy of typescript memorandum by Maj Gen John Yeldham Whitfield, General Officer Commanding 56 (London) Div, Italy, entitled 'Battle absentees', Apr 1944, with typescript article by Scott Elliot entitled 'The 5th casualty: battle absentees' [1947]; copy of part of map of northern Italy, entitled 'Coriano', scale 1: 50, 000 [1945]; typescript of 'Operations of British, Indian and Dominion Forces in Italy, 3 Sep 1943-2 May 1945. 56 (London) Div', with maps, prepared by the British Historical Section, Central Mediterranean Forces [1945]; typescript account by Capt Close Brooks, Adjutant, 7 Bn, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, entitled 'Anzio beach-head' [1946]. Typescript lecture notes by Scott Elliot entitled 'The mental training of the soldier' [1949].

Copies of correspondence, 1916-1925, including letter from Lt Frank Sutherland, 2 Dragoon Guards, wounded with Serby in 1916, letters home from the Western Front, 1916 and from northern Russia, 1918- 1919, with letter to Serby from Capt P R Knowles, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) on the Allied intervention in northern Russia, 1919. Copy of diary transcript detailing operations on the Dvina river, northern Russia, Sep-Oct 1918. Copies of twenty three manuscript and printed maps of northern Russia, various scales, ELOPE and North Russia Expeditionary Force Mapping Sections, 1918. Copies of leave papers and travel documents for UK leave granted to Serby from northern Russia, Jul-Aug 1919.

Papers relating to early career including memoirs covering 1903-1935 and Army Record of Service, 1923-1952; campaign in Norway, World War Two, including War Diary, May 1940, operational orders and diary covering preparation of 2 Independent Company for service in Norway; papers including lecture notes and schedules for courses at Special Training Centre, Inverailort Castle, Loch Ailort, 1940-1941; Madagascar, 1942-1943, including photograph album on service with 2 Company Royal Welch Fusiliers and order of battle for Battle of Majunga, Sep 1942; Burma, 1943-1945, including memoir and photograph album, 29 Brigade, 36 Division, official reports and printed histories including the Arakan campaign; Palestine, 1947-1948 including Operation BROADSIDE, 1946, reports and correspondence; transfer of 6 Airborne Division to British Army of the Rhine, 1947-1948; Malaya, including operational papers, photographs and texts of speeches; Suez Crisis, 1956, including reports, maps, photographs and correspondence; Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, 1960-1964 including photographs; and miscellaneous papers relating to postwar career, including memorial address, 1987.

Journals of holiday tours in the years 1868-1892. In general the destination was Switzerland, the journey there and back from England taking in, at various times, parts of Belgium, Germany, Austria-Hungary (specifically Bohemia and the Tyrol), Italy and France. Exceptions are MS.4507, documenting a tour taking Sewell to South-West France; MS.4508, taking him to the United States and Canada; MS.4512, taking him to Norway; MS.4513, taking him to Northern England, Scotland and Ireland; and MS.4515, taking him to Southern England and the Isle of Wight. The journals are illustrated with inset material such as advertisments, photographs and folding maps.

Papers, 1851-1919, relating to the military career of Sir Archibald Alison, including: detailed sketch map of Lucknow Garrison, India, 1851; memoranda to Alison from Lt Gen Sir Colin Campbell, Commander of British expedition to suppress Indian Mutiny, concerning troop movements, India, and operations at Lucknow for the relief of Lucknow Garrison, India, 1857; correspondence relating to British military operations in India, 1858-1862; records of service and correspondence relating to Alison's appointments, 1858-1892, with correspondents including Sir Henry Thurston Holland, 1st Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, Commander in Chief of the British Army, and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Secretary of State for War; press cuttings relating to Alison's career, 1863-1907, including article, 'The brains of the Army', The Word, 17 Nov 1880, detailing the work of the Intelligence Department under Alison; official correspondence, 1868-1892; lithograph map of the battle of Amoaful (Amoafo), Ghana, printed by the Topographical Department of the War Office, 1874; letter from Alison's cousin, Gen Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard, with detailed account of the capture of Kabul, Afghanistan, 1880; official correspondence relating to the campaign in Egypt, 1882-1883, chiefly concerning appointments, the state of the troops, organisation, and the necessity of retaining a permanent force in Egypt; memoranda by Alison, 1885-1886, on subjects including the Government of India proposals for a permanent increase in British troops in India, demobilisation in Egypt, Colonel Sir Charles Wilson's failure to reach Khartoum in time to relieve General Charles Gordon, and the importance of mounted infantry; notes [1889], by Alison on his career, 1845-1881; correspondence and press cuttings relating to Alison's death and funeral, 1907; correspondence between the Alison family and Blackwoods publishers, 1914-1918, concerning a possible biography of Alison; article, 'The European Brigade under Brigadier General Sir Archibald Alison in the Ashanti War, 1873-1874' by Major General Sir Charles Walker Robinson, Alison's son-in-law, [1919].

Eighteen captioned photographs of operations in Waziristan, North West Frontier, India, Jul 1930, of troops of the Durham Light Infantry and 20 Medium Battery, Royal Artillery. Eight uncaptioned photographs of parades, groups and individuals officers, UK, 1940. Papers relating to the Allied campaigns in North Africa and Italy, 1943-1945, including printed map of Tunisia, scale 1: 1, 000, 000, 1943, and two printed maps of Anzio and the surrounding area, scales 1: 50, 000 and 1: 1, 000, 000, 1944; typescript 'The First Division in action. Tunisia 1943', with printed booklet entitled 'The First Divisional Artillery, Tunisia, 1943. Banana Ridge' [1943]; manuscript graph entitled 'Casualties-1st British Division and attached troops-Anzio', 21 Jan-6 Jun 1944; typescript report entitled 'The First Division in action, Anzio, March to June 1944'; typescript account by Anderton, Assistant Director of Medical Services, 1 Div, entitled 'History of the Divisional medical services in the Anzio campaign', Dec 1945; two volumes, History of the First Division. Anzio campaign. January-June 1944 (Ahva Press, Jerusalem, Palestine, [1946]) and History of the First Division. Florence to Monte Grande. August 1944-January 1945 (Schindler's Press, Cairo, Egypt, [1946]). Papers and photographs relating to Hong Kong and Korea, 1946-1952, including map of 'Hong Kong and the New Territories', scale 1: 80, 000, GSGS 3961, 1946; typescript memorandum by Anderton, as Deputy Director of Medical Services, Hong Kong, entitled 'The medical aspects of the expansion of the Hong Kong garrison in 1949', 1950; nineteen photographs of Korea and Hong Kong, 1950-1952, including visit by Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, to Hong Kong, 1950; large annotated manuscript map showing positions of UN medical units, near the Imjin river and north of Seoul, Korea [1951]; edition of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Jan 1953, with article by Anderton entitled 'The birth of the British Commonwealth Division, Korea'. Typescript article on the Louise Margaret Hospital, Aldershot, 1949, with group photograph of the staff.

Typescript papers relating to Territorial Army annual training exercises, UK, 1935-1937. Papers relating to Barber's time as a Japanese POW in Changi POW Camp, Singapore, 1942-1945, including detailed manuscript diary, 25 Aug 1942-4 Sep 1945, with notes on diet, casualties, disease and nominal rolls of prisoners; eight manuscript letters home from Barber, written after the liberation of Singapore, 1945; printed 'Memorandum for the information of prisoners of war of United Kingdom Forces detained in the Far East' [1945]; two 18 Division Association printed booklets, 1950 and 1993. Two portrait photographs of Barber [1939]. Papers relating to the campaign in France, 1940, including four printed maps of France, Belgium and the Netherlands, various scales, 1938-1939; typescript 'Orders for troops in transit at Cherbourg' and 'Orders for disembarkation' [1940]. Printed training manuals, 1925-1945, including Royal Army Service Corps training manual Mechanical transport. Maintenance, upkeep and operation (HMSO, London, 1925); Section leading (HMSO, London, 1928); Air Raid Precautions. Respirators (HMSO, London, 1939).

Papers relating to Beaufoy Brown's life and RN career, 1925-1979, including scrapbook with newspaper cuttings and fifty five photographs, Aug 1927-Jul 1929, including Atlantic Fleet exercises, 1927, the loss of HM Submarine H47, off St David's Head, Pembrokeshire, following collision with HM Submarine L12, 9 Jul 1929, and photographs of HMS REVENGE, HMS FORRES, HMS RODNEY, HMS HOOD, HMS NELSON and HMS ADVENTURE, 1927-1929. Two Midshipman's journals, 26 Aug 1927-12 Jul 1930, relating to service on HM Ships REVENGE, RODNEY and WALKER, including manuscript sketches and maps, two photographs of the main armament of HMS RODNEY, and photograph of HMS CENTURION, RN radio-controlled target ship, Portland, Dorset, Nov 1928, with twelve loose photographs, 1925-1929, including HMS RODNEY, HMS STURGEON and group of Cadets, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, 1925. Typescript report by Beaufoy Brown on the visit to Malta of the Yugoslav training ship JADRAN, 9-11 Jul 1934. Papers and photographs relating to the development and deployment of X craft midget submarines and Chariot manned torpedoes, 1943-[1950], including sixty seven photographs relating to the training of crews for X craft midget submarine operations, 1943-1945, notably six aerial photographs, taken by 544 Sqn, RAF, of Bergen harbour, Norway, before and after Operation GUIDANCE, the sinking by X Craft of German merchant ship BARENFELS, Apr 1944, and Operation HECKLE, the destruction of a floating dock, Laksvaag, Bergen, Norway, Sep 1944; edition of The Illustrated London News, 15 Dec 1945, with article on X Craft operation against Japanese cruiser TAKAO, Singapore, Jul 1945; edition of The Dittybox, the Navy's own magazine, containing article by G V Galwey entitled 'Life in a midget submarine', Feb 1948; typescript text of lecture by Beaufoy Brown on World War Two midget submarine operations [1950]. Photograph album containing 111 photographs relating to Beaufoy Brown's service as Executive Officer, HMS GAMBIA, Mediterranean and East Indies, 1951-1952, including peace keeping patrols, Port Said, Egypt, 1951, and inspection of ship by acting Adm Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Commnder-in-Chief Mediterranean, Malta, 1952. Typescript Curriculum Vitae for Beaufoy Brown [1965], and obituary, 1979.

Papers including maps, relating to operations of British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, 1940-1941; Staff College study of Italian campaign, 1915; papers including those by Maj Gen G M Lindsay relating to armoured support for 7 Infantry Brigade, 1933-1934; appendix, including maps of Britain annotated for exercises including SPARTAN, 1943; correspondence dated 1977-1978 with Martin Alexander of St Antony's College, Oxford including Franco-British military relations, 1939-1940; notes of conversation in 1975 with Dr A W J Houghton relating to the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940.

Papers relating to early career, including material on early aviation, 1911-1913, and texts of lectures given at the RAF Staff College, Andover, 1922-1926. Material relating to post as Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq, 1928-1935, including correspondence, memoranda and telegrams relating to operations in Iraq and Kuwait, 1928-1930, and negotiations for the Anglo-Iraq Treaty, 1930; news cuttings and notes relating to political and military affairs in Iraq, and the situation of the Assyrians and Kurds, 1930-1935. Papers created as Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Air Defence of Great Britain, 1933-1935, mainly relating to a Royal Review of the RAF at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Papers relating to post as Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Middle East, notably memoranda, cypher signals, letters and notes, 1931-1936, relating to RAF operations, mainly planning and preparation for the possibility of war between the League of Nations and Italy following the Italian invasion and annexation of Abyssinia; correspondence with ACM Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, Chief of Air Staff, 1935-1936; memoranda, telegrams, correspondence and newscuttings on operational matters relating to the Arab Rebellion against the British Mandate in Palestine, 1936; material collated by Brooke-Popham for lectures on the Middle East, 1930, 1936; correspondence, memoranda and minutes relating to the formation and working of an Executive Committee on Assyrian Settlement, 1943-1947. Papers relating to the creation and implementation of the Empire Air Training Scheme in Canada and South Africa, 1939-1945, including personal correspondence with Arthur William Street, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Air, 1940. Papers relating to post as Commander in Chief, Far East, notably telegrams and memoranda relating to the requirements of the RAF and Army in the Far East, 1940-1949; personal correspondence with Maj Gen Sir Hastings Lionel Ismay, Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1940-1941; semi-official correspondence with Street, 1940-1941; material relating to the replacement of Brooke-Popham as Commander in Chief, Far East, Nov 1941; telegrams relating to reconnaissance sightings of Japanese convoys, the decision not to launch Operation MATADOR, the outbreak of war with Japan, and the sinking of RN battleships HMS PRINCE OF WALES and HMS REPULSE, Dec 1941; papers, correspondence and proofs relating to the publication of various despatches and reports concerning operations in Malaya, 1941-1947. Papers created whilst Inspector General of the Air Training Corps, 1942-1947, 1950-1952, mainly comprising inspection reports and material relating to the post-war organisation of the Air Training Corps. Booklets, memoranda, and reports collated by Brooke-Popham relating to RAF training, policy and operations, [1914]-1946. Material relating to research for and writing of articles, lectures and pamphlets, mainly relating to history, aviation or training, 1923-1952. Printed material, 1890-1953, mainly relating to aviation. Maps and photographs, 1917-[1945], including aerial photographs of the Western Front during World War One, 1917-1918.

Copies of unpublished typescript memoirs, 1895-1945, by Burnett-Stuart, Chapter 1-12, 152pp, and Chapters 14-23, 191pp. Papers relating to Belgian military exercises, 1913, including typescript 'Report on the Belgian Grand Manoeuvres 1913' by Capt Harry Cecil Johnson, General Staff, with five printed maps of areas of Belgium, notably Namur, Dinant and Brussels [1913]. Copies of correspondence relating to the Moplah Rebellion, 1921-1922, including correspondence with Col Edward Thomas Humphreys, commanding Malabar Force, Sep 1921-Feb 1922; correspondence with Gen Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson of Trent, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Baron Willingdon of Ratton, Governor of Madras, Lt Gen Sir William Raine Marshall, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command, India, Lt Gen Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea, General Officer Commanding Central Provinces District, India, Maj Gen Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery, Deputy Chief of General Staff, India, Col Walter Patrick Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Baron Ruthven, commanding Bangalore Bde Area, Southern Command, India, Col Henry Karslake, General Staff Officer 1, Headquarters Peshawar, India, and Col William Henry Beach, Deputy Director (Intelligence), General Staff, India, with typescript copy of order of battle, Malabar Force, India, 1921-1922, and lecture on the Moplah rebellion [1924]. Papers relating to Burnett-Stuart's service as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, UK, 1934-1938, including typescript memorandum by Burnett-Stuart 'British Defence Policy', Apr 1935; typescript memorandum by FM Sir Cyril John Deverell, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 'The organisation, armament and equipment of the Army', Nov 1936; typescript volume 'Southern Command. Annual report on training of the regular Army 1936-1937'; typescript address by Burnett-Stuart, 'Southern Command Winter Exercise (The Mobile Division) 1936-1937'.

Papers, photographs and maps relating to the invasions of Sicily and Italy, including the war diary of 41 Royal Marines Commando, 1943.

Five sketch maps showing British, USA and French troop movements in North Africa, [1942].

Papers relating to service with the 12 (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers during World War One, notably relating the advance into Flanders, the first Battle of Ypres, and the advance to, and fighting around, Amiens, 1914-1935; the writing and publication of Charrington's book Where Cavalry Stands Today (Hugh Rees, London, 1927), 1927-1928; papers from a report by Charrington on the operations of the British Army in Eritrea and Abyssinia during 1941; correspondence, narratives, photographs and maps relating to Charrington's command of 1 Armoured Bde during operations in Greece and Crete, 1941, 1941-1962.

Typescript draft of 'The memoirs of a professional soldier in peace and war', an unpublished account of Clarke's career in the army, including service in Gallipoli and Palestine during World War One, 1968; various papers and pamphlets collated by Clarke, mainly relating to the training and performance of the Royal West African Frontier Force, 1923-[1960]; articles written by Clarke and published in British and African journals and periodicals, 1926-1959; printer's transparencies of maps used by Clarke in Part Two of the History of the Royal West African Frontier Force (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1964).

Narrative of operations of 7 Division, 1918 by the Revd E C Crosse including reference to Clifford's service as Officer Commanding 95 Field Company, Royal Engineers; papers relating to Anglo-Italian Jubaland Boundary Commission, 1925-1928 including maps; British Somaliland-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1931-1936, including intelligence reports on French Somaliland, air survey operations, Walwal incident between Italian and Ethiopian troops, and printed reports on the work of the Commission; Chief Engineer, China Command, including report on Royal Engineers in Hong Kong, 1941-1942; Kenya-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1950-1957, including diaries, 1951-1955, printed reports, and maps of the boundary, 1946-1949; published articles by Clifford, 1928-1947, mainly on boundary commissions; technical manuals, 1924-1932, including surveying; publications and printed works, 1892-1952, including boundary commissions.

Thirty two British and French printed maps of France, Belgium, Germany and the UK, various scales, 1911-1918, including annotated trench maps of operations and advances during the Battles of Cambrai, 1917, Bellecourt, 1917, and Fourth Battle of Arras, 1918, with newspaper cuttings of the Western Front, 1918 and aerial photograph of Solesmes, France, annotated with position of 461 Field Company Royal Engineers, 19-20 Oct 1918, also painted unit insignia of 62 (2 West Riding) Div, Royal Engineers [1918].

Letters From A Volunteer, a pamphlet edition of letters written to his parents while in barracks at Dover with 3 and 10 Bns East Surrey Regt, Oct 1914-Jan 1915, illustrated with photographs and privately published by Don(ald) Cook in 1984; photocopies of two articles by Donald Cook, namely 'The agony of Loos', on the Battle of Loos, France, Sep 1915, from Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association, Summer 1985, and 'Divisional Commander in France: General Sir David Campbell GCB', on the military career of Campbell, 1896-1936, particularly his service on the Western Front, 1914-1918, and his role as commander of 21 Div, 1916-1919, from The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, vol 118, no 2, Apr 1988; copies of sketch maps relating to the above articles, [1984-1988].

Manuscript extracts from Regimental diary, Second Boer War, South Africa, 23 Dec 1900-4 Mar 1901; six letters relating to operations against Boer forces in the Transvaal, South Africa, 1899-1901, with manuscript sketch map of a Boer night attack, Lake Chrissie (Chrissiesmeer), 6 Feb 1901, approximate scale 1: 10, 660. Photograph album with 106 photographs, mostly relating to service in South Africa, 1900-1904, Ireland, 1904-1905, and the UK, 1906-1907; photograph album with 485 photographs relating to service in Scutari, Albania, 1913, with German map entitled Scutari (Militärgeographisches Institut, Berlin, Germany, 1912), scale 1: 200, 000, and typescript copy of article from the Yorkshire Post entitled 'The West Yorkshires in Scutari. Incidents of International Control', 28 Aug 1913; photograph album with 283 photographs, mostly relating to service in India, Aden, Egypt and the Sudan, 1925-1928.

The collection consists of pamphlets written by Davidson, papers relating to his part in the Allied Military Mission to Moscow, USSR, 1939 and papers relating to his career in World War Two as Commander in the Royal Artillery and as Director of Military Intelligence. The World War Two material includes maps used in the retreat of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) to Dunkirk, France, maps used as Director of Military Intelligence to illustrate the progress of the war to Queen Mary, mother of George VI and a personal diary kept while Director of Military Intelligence. There is also a file containing correspondence with E E Thomas of the Cabinet Office Historical Section relating to aspects of Military Intelligence during World War Two.

Papers relating to 8 Army operations in Western Desert and Battle of El Alamein, 1941-1942, in particular Operations LIGHTFOOT, SUPERCHARGE and GRAPESHOT, including maps, memoranda and plans; 21 Army Group, Operation OVERLORD, 1944 including notes of operations, Jun 1944-May 1945; report on Operation BLACKCOCK, attack by 12 Corps at Roermond, Jan 1945; surrender by German forces, May 1945 including plans for administration of enemy territory and troops. Excerpts from German wireless messages, 1941-1943. Printed material, including messages from Montgomery, General Officer Commanding 8 Army, Nov 1942-Jan 1944 and as Commander-in- Chief, 21 Army Group, Jun 1944-Aug 1945; personal messages from Supreme Commander, SHAEF, 1944; handbooks and pamphlets, Dec 1942-Dec 1944; limited circulation newspapers, 1943 and 1945, including 'Eighth Army News'; operational reports, 1945, including 79 Armoured Division, 21 Army Group and Allied Expeditionary Force.

Papers relating to his life and career, 1885-1941, including typescript volume entitled 'The story of the Egyptian campaign, 1885-1886', written in [1914]; two typescript volumes entitled 'My narrative of the South African War 1899-1902' and 'Second phase of the South African War' with sketch maps, notes and recommendations of awards for officers and men of 2 Mounted Infantry Corps, 1899-1900; reports, notes and correspondence, 1900-1912, relating to the future development of cavalry in the British Army, including typescript extracts from article by Maj Gen Sir Ian Monteith Hamilton on operations at Diamond Hill, Second Boer War, South Africa, Jun 1900, and correspondence with FM Rt Hon Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, Lt Gen Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, Maj Gen Edmund Henry Hyman Allenby, Maj Gen Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton, and Lt Col Hubert De la Poer Gough, 1903-1910; typescript notes on cavalry tactics, equipment and history, entitled 'Letters from an old cavalry officer to his son', 1909; two typescript volumes entitled 'My narrative of the Great German War', an account of his service in World War One in Gallipoli and on the Western Front, 1914-1918, including 29 photographs and typescript table showing number of 29 Div casualties between 1915 and 1917; manuscript article by De Lisle entitled 'General Sir Archibald Wavell GCB: the unknown leader', 1941; typescript unpublished novel entitled 'The great recovery', 1941, based on De Lisle's experiences in World War One, 1914-1918.

The papers cover the period 1914-1965 and include papers relating to service in England, France and with British Army of the Rhine, 1914-1919 in particular 35 Division Artillery Signals; Iraq, including diary, 1920-1921; Nigeria, including field message book, 1924; Quetta, India, including earthquake diary, 1935; newspapers covering death of King George V, 1936; command of Northern Rhodesia Regt, Lusaka, 1937-1940, including scrap albums; command of 26 (East African) Infantry Brigade, East Africa and Abyssinia, 1940- 1941, including operation reports; command of 22 (East African) Infantry Brigade, Madagascar, 1942, including operation reports; command of 28 (East African) Infantry Brigade and 11 (East African) division, Burma and India, 1944-1946 including accounts of operations; General Officer Commanding East Africa, 1946- 1948, including official circulars, speeches and addresses; General Officer Commanding Aldershot Command, 1948-1951, including speeches and lectures; Representative on Military Staff Committtee, United Nations, 1951-1953, including diary; Col Commandant of Northern Rhodesia Regiment, King's African Rifles and Kenya Regiment, including correspondence, 1952-1964, committee papers and publications; papers relating to Army Cadet Force Association including minutes of meetings, 1956-1959; Inter-Parliamentary Union, including account of journey to Warsaw, Poland, 1959; maps, 1914-1943, including Western Front, Iraq and India, Nigeria and Madagascar.

Papers of Sir Derek Dodson, 1935-1986, relating to his service in Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Greece and Italy, comprising papers including message books, notes, reports and correspondence related to service in the Allied Military Mission to Greece, Sep 1943-Mar 1945; messages, notes, and diary relating to service with partisans in Italy, Apr-May 1945; photographs of Dodson; maps of Greece, Italy and France; report by the Salonika Bureau, 'The Macedonian Autonomy Movement in North West Greece: its setting and recent histor', Oct 1945.

Papers relating to his military career, 1944-1952, dated [1944-1953], [1960-1980], comprising account of advance of 2 Bn, Essex Regt through Northern France and Belgium, June-Oct 1944, notably covering the attack on Le Havre, 10 Sep 1944, written in [1945], with appendix dated [1960-1980]; account of withdrawal of 2 Infantry Bde from Belgium and Northern France, May 1940,culminating in their evacuation from Dunkirk on 1 Jun 1940, written in [1944-1945]; notes on the allotment and loading of vehicles, Operation OVERLORD, June 1944; map of German defences at Le Havre, issued by [the War Office], 1944; map showing position of 51 and 49 Div to the north of Le Havre, 7 Jun 1944, issued by the War Office, 1947; two accounts of the work of 1 Bn, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, in Malaya, 1952, written in [1953].

Papers of Edwin Embleton, 1939-1949, chiefly comprising World War Two propaganda pamphlets, 1939-1945, on subjects including the Allied war effort, the Home Front, British Allies, anti-Nazism and the Empire, largely produced by the Ministry of Information for dissemination both within Britain and overseas. These pamphlets are in a number of European, Middle Eastern, African and Asian languages. An approximate translation has been provided for all foreign language titles. The remainder of the collection comprises Ministry of Information produced propaganda posters, postcards, cigarette cards, scrapbook stamps; portraits of Islamic leaders; maps from the Ministry of Information 'Map series' for use by newspapers; American propaganda pamphlets and Ministry of Information administrative papers. Administrative papers include progress reports, memoranda and plans relating to strategy, visual presentation, print deadlines and staff.

Plans made by the Engineer's Department, West Ham Borough Council, 1894-1966. The collection includes building plans, site plans, proposals for projects and Ordnance Survey maps. The maps have been amended by the engineers to show proposals or extent of works. The proposals include swimming pools, recreation grounds, public baths, sewers, new roads and unemployment relief works. There is a large amount of material relating to Whipps Cross Hospital, including contract plans. A detailed index of the plans can be found in hard copy at the LMA Information Area.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Civil Defence Department comprising plans drawn up by the local authorities in Middlesex in the period 1937-1940. They show, in varying degree of detail, the locations of first aid posts; shelters; repair, rescue and demolition posts; distribution depots; respirator stores; trenches; wardens sectors; decontamination centres; police centres; police stations; hospitals; fire stations. Also plans of London Region Civil Defence boundaries, 1948-1965.

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.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Planning Department relating to the Rights of Way Survey, 1949-1964, including maps; statements; relevant legislation; objections to the first map and review of the Survey.

London County Council circulars 'Notes on Allowances to Soldiers' Wives' and 'Notes on Allowances to Sailors' Wives', 1914.

Plan books, Public Health Department, Corporation of London, 1900-1947.

Also plans prepared for Parliamentary sessions including plans of the Central London Railway, 1902-1903; the City, Wandsworth and Wimbledon Electric Railway, 1902; the East London, City and Peckham Railway, 1902; the City and North East Suburban Electric Railway, 1903; the City and Crystal Palace Railway, 1903; the Metropolitan District Railway, 1903; new lines and extensions on the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, 1903; the Hammersmith, City and North East London Railway, 1903; Patent Office property on Furnival Street, near Chancery Lane, 1903; the Queen Victoria Street Fire Station, 1904; the Port of London Authority, 1911; Mansion House Station Subway, 1912; Public Records Office, Chancery Lane, 1912 and tramways and other street improvements, 1912.

Plans, maps and diagrams of streets and properties in the City of London and Greater London, [1500]-1983. Please note that this series is extensive and this list has been chosen to demonstrate the wide range of available material rather than being an exhaustive list. Please consult the detailed listings for further information.

General plans and maps of the City of London including survey of encroachments upon London Wall with encroachments upon the wall surrounding Moorfields, by William Leybourn, 1676; plan of the City, Westminster and Southwark, 1752; coloured map of Greater London, showing the boundaries of the City of London, 1825; diagram showing relative levels and contour lines, 1847; general plan of the City of London by Frank Summer, City Engineer, 1914; plan showing City boundary, 1914; map of London and surrounding districts showing administrative counties; county, municipal and metropolitan boroughs; urban and rural district and civil parish boundaries; and parliamentary constituencies scheduled in Representation of the People Act, 1948. Map showing the parishes of the City prior to the Union of Parishes Acts, 1878-1880; coloured directory map of London, showing ward boundaries and parish boundaries, 1909; plan of the City of London showing the wards of Langbourn, Candlewick, Walbrook, Dowgate, Billingsgate, Bridge Within, Cheap and Farringdon without, accompanied by drawings of churches and the arms of the two aldermen of the wards, 1755; plan showing the division of the City of London into Wards, with the number of common councilmen representing each ward, 1822; map of the Wards of Cheap, Cordwainer, Vintry and Walbrook to accompany the Act of Common Council to alter the boundaries of those wards, 1957; map of the wards of Aldersgate, Cripplegate and Farringdon Within to accompany the Act of Common Council to alter the boundaries of those wards, 1969; map of the Wards of Cheap, Cordwainer, Vintry and Walbrook to accompany Act of Common Council, 1971; outline plan of Greater London, showing the approximate boundaries of London Borough Administrative Areas, 1970.

Maps showing public sewers within the City of London, showing Inspector's Districts, 1841-1853; map of London and its environs showing the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the boundaries of the City of London, and the boundaries of the water companies' districts, 1884; plans and sections of the proposed works by the London Sewage Chemical Manure Company in Westminster, Barmondsey and Lambeth, 1846; plan and sections of the proposed works of the London Drainage Company to drain the Metropolis and preserve the Thames from impurities, 1847-1853; sewers and electricity mains, 1902-1909; London Electric Supply Company high pressure mains, 1909; London County Council unfiltered water mains, 1944; boundaries and area of the Coal Duty with locations of coal posts, [1846] and [1959]; plan showing police divisions of the City of London and also areas of jurisdiction of the Guildhall and Mansion House Justice Rooms, 1914; carriageway traffic in the City of London for one day of 12 hours, 1903; plan showing existing and proposed pedestrian crossings, 1914; plan marked to show the location of accidents involving pedestrians, 1966; maps relating to Stopping up of Public Paths Orders, 1970-1981. Maps showing land in the City owned by different companies including City Livery Companies, Central London Electricity Ltd, with service positions, Cable and Wireless Ltd, the General Post Office and the Port of London Authority, 1947; preliminary survey, preservation of trees, 1950; plan of City showing the location of public conveniences, 1968 and plan of the City of London showing the positions of five hydrants as fixed by the Corporation, and also police and fire brigade stations and five alarm posts, 1880.

Plans relating to general urban development including plan showing numbering of street properties, 1842; plan of the City of London showing slum property presented in the Medical Officer's Report as being in need of rebuilding, 1880, plan of the City of London, showing 21 sites proposed to be dealt with by the Medical Officer of Health under the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act 1875; diagrams showing restrictions on height of buildings and the percentage of a site which may be occupied under the Town Planning Scheme, 1938-1939; survey of the North Lambeth and Southwark redevelopment area, showing borough and wood boundaries; age and condition of buildings; church property; education; licensed premises; industry, commerce and railways; health and social services; and open spaces, 1945; maps relating to Compulsory Purchase Orders, 1950-1982; maps attached to the London County Council Development Plan, 1962.

General plans of the Thames and other waterways including plan of the Maze Ponds, being a portion of the survey of the water courses, streams and ponds belonging to Battle Mills, 1680; surveys of the Thames, 1770-1839; 32 sheets of plans and sections of the River Thames at various points showing tidal observations, navigational and geological points and other observations, 1833 - 1882; plan of sections of the River Thames appointed by the Corporation of London as places for colliers to anchor on their entrance into the port, 1838; 37 sheets of plans and sections showing proposed works for the improvement of the navigation of the River Lee, 1849 - 1850; plan of the River Lea, Middlesex, 1881; diagrams of tidal observations taken from Deptford, Erith Pier, Gravesend Pier, Teddington Lock and Southend Pier every day from 13 September to 30 November 1882; and hydrographic survey of the Thames from Blackfriars Bridge to London Bridge, 1958.

Plans of Corporation of London properties including plan of Guildhall Yard, showing the vicarage and the Comptroller's house, 1681; plan and sections of a design for a muniment room at the Guildhall, 1835; plan of the Town Clerk's House, Guildhall, 1859-1860; 22 black and white photographs and drawings of the Guildhall, collected during restoration work in 1910 for use by Sydney Perks, late City Architect and Surveyor, in his 'Essays on Old London'; plans for the extension for new offices and committee rooms, 1926 - 1927; plan of the Guildhall Crypt as it appeared in the early part of the fifteenth century, 1927; plans for the reconstruction of the Guildhall by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1935-1968. Also proposals for the site of the Mansion House, including at Stocks Market by George Dance the Elder, 1730s and by John James, 1735-1737, and on Leadenhall Street, by John James, 1735-1737 and by James Gibbs, 1735; plans of Mansion House, 1930 and 1953; Bridgehouse offices and yard, 1790-1793; alterations at the Sessions House, 1806; Commissioners of Sewers offices, 1860-1896; Barbican South Block, 1962-1971 and the Museum of London, 1964-1971.

Plans of hospitals, workhouses, schools and prisons including plan of Christ's Hospital premises adjoining London Wall, showing distiller's house and workhouse, Aldersgate Churchyard and parish workhouse, town ditch, hospital churchyard, a brewhouse and the passage to Little Britain, [1750]; plan of part of old Bethlem Burying Ground, 1773; design for a new entrance to Christ's Hospital, 1832; plan of Bethlehem Hospital and King Edward's School, 1894; plan of land on lease to the City of London Mental Hospital, Kent, Dartford, 1909 and plan of land behind the Hospital, 1917; Christ's Hospital offices, Tower Street, 1913; plan of the new Bethlem Hospital, 1926; plan of the Bethlem Royal Hospital estate at Monks Orchard, Beckenham, 1928 and 1937; St Bartholomew's Hospital plans, 1928-1929; plans of the Golden Lane Mortuary, 1911-1950; plan for letting ground for building on the site occupied by the London Workhouse and for erecting a dwelling house and school rooms for children, 1823; plan for letting on building leases the site of the late London Workhouse, Bishopsgate Street, 1830-1831; proposed workhouse for the West London Union, Cornwallis Road, Upper Holloway, [1863]; proposals for site of the City of London School in Islington, 1833, and in Honey Lane Market, 1835; plan and elevations of the City of London Freemen's School, 1854-1926; plan of the Cordwainer and Bread Street Schools, 1852; plans of the City of London School, Grove Park, Kent, 1924; plans of the Freemen's School at Ashtead Park, showing the allocation of rooms on each floor in the school and mansion, 1929-1939; plan of new building at City of London School for Boys, 1936; plans of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1970-1973; plans of the former site of the City of London School for Girls and Guildhall School of Music at John Carpenter Street, 1977; plan of Gresham College with its grounds and almshouses, [1700]; plan of property belonging to the London, Gresham and Rogers almhous es on the Ferndale Road, 1901; broadsheets describing the state of the Newgate gaol [ such as number of prisoners, offences, numbers executed], 1785-1792; plans of Newgate gaol, 1757-1848; plans of Giltspur Street Compter, 1800 and 1848, Southwark Compter, 1848 and Whitecross Street Compter, 1848.

Plans, maps and diagrams of London markets, including survey and plans of Leadenhall Market, 1677-1981, plans for improvements at Leadenhall and Smithfield markets, by Horace Jones, 1868-1881; plans of Smithfield, 1837-1868, and plans of London Central Market [Smithfield] including plan of the Southern Railway route below the market, showing proposed works to the substructure, 1923, the Meat Inspection Offices at London Central Market, 1930 and 1980 and plans of the market, 1937 and 1958-1969; plan and section of Billingsgate Market showing the supply of water, ventilation and drainage to the market, 1850, and other plans 1856-1980, plans of stalls at Newgate Market, 1692-1860; plans of Spitalfields Market 1900-1974 including photographs 1912-1934; map of East London showing the situation of 11 proposed sites for a foreign cattle market, 1870; plans of the Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford, showing the quantity of cattle pens and the layout of the slaughter houses, 1871-1902, including photographs, 1872; plans of Fleet Market, 1737 and 1799; plans of Farringdon Market, 1824-1828; map of East London, showing the proposed site of a metropolitan fish market at Shadwell and including a proposed subway for foot and carriage traffic under the Thames, 1881; plan of Stocks Market, off The Poultry, 1692; and plans of Honey Lane Market, showing the dimensions of the roads and adjoining areas and of the stalls, including the member of each, 1692, 1781 and 1833. Plans showing proposed sites for the new Metropolitan Cattle market including sites at Acton; Crouch End Road, off Seven Sisters Road; Bow Common; Wanstead Flats; Blackwall; Duckets Farm Tottenham; Church End, Finchley, off the Great North Road and Brentford, 1832-1852; plan of the proposed layout for the estate of Samuel Pocock, Esquire at Islington, including the new cattle market and Caledonian Road, 1855; coloured lithograph of the Inauguration of the New Metropolitan Cattle Market, 1855; plan o f the Metropolitan Cattle Market, showing approach roads, public houses, and the layout of the market place, 1855; plan of the decoration for the first stone to be laid in the new clock tower, including all the names of the members of the Metropolitan Cattle Market Committee, 1854; plans of the Metropolitan Cattle Market, 1916-1963, including plan of war time use; graph showing fluctuation in the number of cattle, sheep, calves and pigs slaughtered at the Metropolitan Cattle Market between 1912 and 1955 and photographs of visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to the abattoir in connection with the inauguration by the Ministry of Agriculture of their Scheme for the grading of cattle carcases, 23 Oct 1929.

Site plans, elevations and sections of individual properties including plan of the Rose Tavern near Poultry Compter, [1500]; plan of 8 tenements belonging to the Bridge House Estates on the north-side of Newgate Market Street, showing the names of each tenant and the extent of their plots, 1616; two plans of houses in Old Bethlem belonging to City Lands Estates, [1676]; plan of properties belonging to the Bridge House Estates showing tenements in Black Raven Court, off Golden Lane, 1714; plan of Conduit Mead property off Bond Street and Grafton Street, giving detailed measurements and plot boundaries, 1733; plans of the Conduit Mead estate, 1736 and 1807; plans of properties and streets in Deptford, including canals and docks, 1760-1932; properties along Blackfriars Road, [1760] and 1815-1892; plan and elevation of property belonging to the Bridge House Estates in and around Angel Court, Bishopsgate Street, 1764; properties and streets in St George's Fields, 1768-1859; properties on the Minories, 1774-1798; properties on Butcher Row, 1775; properties on Fenchurch Street, 1776-1908; plan of ground in Blackman Street and part of King's Bench Prison, 1777; properties in Lewisham, especially High Street, 1795-1921; City Lands property, 1799; plan of Limehouse fronting the river, showing the various premises and their owners, and also the position of the footpath to Poplar, 1799; ground plan of East India House, Leadenhall Street, 1800; plan of Blackwall fronting the river, showing the various premises and their owners, 1800; the Stock Exchange and vicinity, 1802; properties on Mill Lane, including Borough Compter and Hayes's Wharf, 1803-1859; properties on Paternoster Row, 1803-1913; plan of premises belonging to Messrs Jukes, Coulson and Company at Limehouse, 1808; the London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill, 1812; properties in Tooley Street, 1813-1912; the General Post Office, St Martin's le Grand, 1819-1828; Coleman Street Ward Watch House, 1824; properties on London Wall, 1824-1969; properties in Wood Street, 1829-1938; estate at Mile End Road, Bromley by Bow, belonging to Emanuel Goodhant, 1833; the Royal Exchange, 1838-1844 and 1938; Bishopsgate Street properties, [1830]-1940 and 1966; properties on Newgate Street, 1840-1908; properties in White Street, Bermondsey, 1842-1928; properties on Old Kent Road, 1843-1907; various public conveniences [toilets] and urinals, 1845-1914; properties on Leadenhall Street, 1846-1917; properties along Borough Road, 1854-1936; The Coal Exchange, including Roman ruins in basement, 1859 and 1950-1968; properties on Queen Victoria Street, 1862-1936; premises at No. 10 Bury Court, St Mary Axe, 1868; plan of alterations and repairs proposed for 'The Lamb Tavern', Islington, 1875; artisan's dwellings at the Petticoat Square housing development, 1879-1902; various artisan's dwellings developments, 1879-1881, including plans and sections of the artesian well proposed by the Hydraulic Rapid Boring Company to supply the development at Petticoat Square, 1887-1892; properties in Westminster Bridge Road, 1892-1922; properties on Eldon Street near Finsbury Circus, 1898-1901; plan of property on the corner of Blomfield Street and Eldon Street, late the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, 1900; underground convenience [toilet] near Blackfriars Bridge, 1912; Ilford Housing project, 1913-1923; Hutchison Street Area Housing, 1919-1930; plans of The Circus No. 7, Queen's Court Nos. 1-4 and Vine Street No. 3 and 5, 1925; general plans of the artisan's dwellings at Middlesex Street Estate, 1926-1928, also plans of properties on the estate including proposed reconstruction of Kings Flats, 1957-1958, Dutton House improvements, 1961-1962, and scheme to demolish flats on the estate, 1967-1973; proposals for Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, 1928; Meat Inspection Offices, Charterhouse Street, 1930; plan of the property of the City Parochial Foundation's Southwark Es tate on Southwark Bridge Road, 1936; Holloway Housing Estate, including property purchased from HMP Holloway, 1938-1951; fire escapes at Merchant Taylor's Hall, Threadneedle Street, 1939; proposals for the Bankers' Clearing House, King William Street, 1939; rebuilding of Heal and Son Ltd, Tottenham Court Road, 1939; the Lloyd's Bank Buildings, Moorgate, 1942-1950; proposals for the Golden Lane Housing Scheme, 1951; elevation of Bucklersbury House, Queen Victoria Street, 1956; car park, Upper Thames Street, 1960-1962; development at Houndsditch, 1963 and Cavendish Telephone Exchange, Houndsditch, 1966; Telephone Exchange, Wood Street, 1964; rebuilding of head office, National Provincial Bank, Bishopsgate, 1965; Norfolk Suffolk House, Laurence Pountney Hill, 1967-1969; and No 51-53, Charterhouse Street, 1971.

Plans and maps of street layouts, particularly improvement works, including Oxford Street, 1708-1779; plans of the Finsbury Estate, including Bunhill Fields, the Artillery Ground, Old Street and City Road, 1774, 1781 and 1802; plan for making an opening from Bride Street to the Broadway in Blackfriars, showing premises affected and the course of the Fleet Sewer, 1779; Newgate street, 1787-1963; Moorfields area, 1815-1925; plan of streets stopped up for His Majesty King William IV's visit to the City, 1830; Holborn Valley improvements, including Holborn Viaduct, 1832-1869; plan of the projected viaduct from Fetter Lane to the Old Bailey showing also the proposed extension to Chancery Lane and improvement to Farringdon Market, 1834; 'Mr Belchers plan for improvements of Holborn Hill, by a proposed viaduct from Holborn to Skinner St', [1842]; plan and sections of the proposed embankment road from Whitehall Place to Chatham Place, Blackfriars, and of the proposed embankment from Westminster Bridge to the northern pier of Hungerford Bridge, 1843; Cheapside area, 1846-1967; proposed improvements to streets, Billingsgate Ward, 1852; plan and section of the proposed embankment and public roadway on the Middlesex side of the Thames between Vauxhall Bridge and Battersea Bridge, 1852; plan of Reynolds Estate, Stratford, Essex, 1862; subways, Aldersgate Street, 1880; Middlesex Street, 1927 and 1964-1967; plans for development of St Paul's Cathedral precinct including maps superimposed with different proposals for development, including the piazza of St Peter's Rome, the Royal Academy, the Royal Fine Art Commission, Holden-Holford and William Holford [planning consultants to the City of London] proposals, 1934-1969; and diagrams of St Paul's Height Zoning to protect views of the Cathedral, 1935-1939; Houndsditch Pipe Subway extension, 1935-1937; improvements, Cannon Street - Queen Victoria Street intersection, 1947; redevelopment, Bucklersbury / Pancras Lane ar ea and Thavies Inn area, Holborn Circus, 1950; street improvements at Holborn Circus, [1959]; Moorfields development works, 1960-1966, Aldgate High Street improvements, 1963 - 1969 and Holborn Viaduct and Snow Hill redevelopment, 1965-1967.

Plans of churches and churchyards, including ground plans of Christ Church, Newgate Street; Bridewell Chapel; Hallows Staining, Mark Lane; All Hallows, London Wall; All Hallows, Lombard Street; All Hallows, Bread Street; All Hallows Barking, Great Tower Street; Holy Trinity Church, Fetter Lane; Holy Trinity the Less; St Michael Queenhithe; St Vedast-alias-Foster; St Stephen, Coleman Street; St Stephen, Walbrook; St Swithin, London Stone; St Mary Bothaw; St Sepulchre, Holborn; St Peter, Paul's Wharf; St Peter le Poor; St Peter West Cheap; St. Paul's Cathedral and the Cathedral Churchyard; St. Gregory by St. Paul's; St. Augine, Old Change; St Pancras, Soper Lane; St Nicolas Olave; St Olave Hart Street; St Olave Silver Street; St Nicholas Cole Abbey; St Mildred, Bread Street; St Mildred the Virgin, Poultry; St Nicholas Acon; St Michael Paternoster Royal; St Michael Queenhithe; St Michael Bassishaw; St Matthew, Friday Street; St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Bloomfield Street; St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street; St Mary Bothaw; St Mary le Bow, Cheapside; St Mary Abchurch; St Mary the Virgin Aldermanbury; St Martin Ludgate; St Martin Orgar; St Martin Outwich; St Martin Vintry; St Margaret, Fish Street Hill; St Magnus the Martyr; St Margaret Eastcheap; St Leonard Eastcheap; St Lawrence Pountney; St Lawrence Jewry; St John Zachary; St Katherine Cree, Leadenhall Street; St John the Baptist, Walbrook; St Giles Cripplegate; St Gregory by St Paul's; St Helen, Bishopsgate Street; St Giles Without, Cripplegate; St James, Duke's Place; St James, Garlickhithe; St Andrew Undershaft; St Andrew, Holborn; St Alphage, London Wall; St Alban Wood Street; St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield; St Augustine, Watling Street; St Antholin, Watling Street; St Anne and St Agnes, St Ann's Lane; St Anne Blackfriars; St Andrew by the Wardrobe, St Andrew's Hill; St Benet Fink; St Bartholomew the Less, Goswell Street; St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield; St Botolph, Aldergate; St Bennet, Paul's Wharf; St Benet Sherehog, Pancras Lane; St Benet, Gracechurch Street; St Dunstan in the East; St Clement's, Eastcheap; St Dionis Backchurch, Lime Street; St Botolph, Bishopsgate; St Bride, Fleet Street; St Botolph, Billingsgate; St Gabriel Fenchurch, Fenchurch Street; St George, Botolph Lane; St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate Street; St Edmund the King and St Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, all dating to 1853; plan showing alterations to St Sepulchre's Churchyard in connection with Holborn Valley improvements, 1868; plan of churchyard of St Matthew' Church, Brinton Hill, showing site of William Ward's tomb, with plan, elevation and detail of inscription, 1881? and plan of All Hallows, Lombard Street, 1938.

Plans, diagrams and maps relating to railway lines and stations, including plans and sections of the Great Northern and City Railway, to run from Finsbury Park to Finsbury Pavement, City, 1831; extension, Commercial Railway, 1838; 19 sheets of plans and sections showing the London and Enniskellen Railway with a branch to Lough Swilly, 1844; proposed extension of the Eastern Counties Railway, from Tottenham to Farringdon Street, 1845; plan and section of the proposed extension of the London and Birmingham Railway to Farringdon Street, 1845; Central City Railway, 1851; proposed Hammersmith, Fulham and Westminster Railways, 1854; plan of London showing the Holborn and City Extension Railway from Copenhagen Tunnel to Tokenhouse Yard, 1859; plan of Wandsworth Common detailing a proposed new railway goods station and road, and highlighting the limits within which the powers of the conservators of the common extended, 1871; plans from the Metropolitan District Railway and Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion and Eastern Extension Railway, showing various stations and lines, 1875-1950; plan of Thames Haven Station (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway) showing the boundaries of the landing place for foreign animals, 1885; proposals for the Waterloo and City Railway, 1891; plans of lines and stations from various companies including the London and North Eastern Railway; Hammersmith, City and North East London Railway; Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway; Great Northern and City Railway; City and Crystal Palace Railways; Great Northern Railway; City and North East Suburban Railway; Great Northern and City Railway; City and North, Central London and Metropolitan District Railway; Central London Railway, Waterloo and City Railway, all dating between 1896-1931; plan and section of City Station tunnels showing ways to or from platforms, and terminal station of the Waterloo and City Railway at Queen Victoria Street, 1897; Cannon Street Station, 1913 and 1958-1964; plan of Moor Lane Bridge, Moorgate Station, showing the proposed widening of the bridge by the Metropolitan Railway, 1913; City Station (now Bank), 1929-1939; London Passenger Transport Board plans, 1933-1947; map of the North Eastern Railway's route through Tottenham, Hackney, Old Street and Shoreditch and Section of the North Eastern Railway's route through Hackney Parish and Tottenham parish, showing the levels of the land, 1936; Liverpool Street Station, 1937 and 1981-1982; proposed interchange of Old Tower Hill Station (District Line) with Fenchurch Street station, 1953; Holborn Viaduct Station, 1959; widening and realignment work on the railways at Tower Hill, Aldersgate and Moorgate, 1960; plans from London Transport for work on various stations, 1962-1982 and plans prepared for the London Docklands Railway Bill, 1982-1983.

Plan and section of proposed tramways to run between Holborn, Clerkenwell and Islington, 1884; proposed tramways between Pimlico, Peckham and Greenwich, 1871 and proposed extension of the Metropolitan Street Tramway in the City of London and in Surrey, 1871; proposed Kensington, Westminster and City tramways, 1871; tramways and improvements, London County Council, 1913-1924. Also map of Greater London showing existing airports and the site of the proposed City of London Airport at Fairlop, Essex, 1936.

Plans, maps and diagrams relating to bridges, including map of London and environs showing the River Thames and the River Lee, and indicating whether their bridges are free bridges, toll bridges or toll bridges to be made free, 1869; general plans of London Bridge, 1799-1800; maps and plans of the approaches to London Bridge, including plans and elevations of premises along streets redesigned by John Rennie, 1806-1836, 1842, 1875, and 1959; plan of the levels of Holborn Hill, Skinner Street, Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill and Regent Street, taken from London Bridge, 1830; plan of alteration of parapet, London Bridge footway, 1877; improvements to pedestrian access from London Bridge to London Bridge Station via Duke Street Hill, 1960?; plans showing London Bridge improvement works, 1961-1962 and plans from the London Bridge reconstruction, 1965-1968; plans and elevations of Tower Bridge, its approaches and its machinery, with some drawings and preliminary sketches by George D Stevenson (City Architect's Office), Sir Horace Jones and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, 1886-1899; elevations and sections of the bascules, Tower Bridge, 1903; arrangement of steam pumping engine counters, with details of fittings for both engine rooms, Tower Bridge, 1906; arrangement of Motlerup's Lubricators to steam pumping engines, with detail of fittings for same, Tower Bridge, 1913; approximate positions of lamps lighted by the Corporation on Tower Bridge, 1921 and 'A' and 'B' Pumping Engines, Tower Bridge, 1935. Map of Blackfriars Bridge approach roads, 1768; general plans of Blackfriars Bridge, 1820-1870, 1906 and 1959 and plans of improvements to Blackfriars Bridge, including changes to street layout, 1961-1969. Plan and elevation of the proposed Prince's Bridge at Vauxhall across the River Thames, 1805; plans of proposed additions to the width of Peg's Hole Bridge, Stratford and St Michael's Bridge, Stratford with their south elevations, 1847; plan of Southwark Bridge, 1904 and plans for the reconstruction of Southwark Bridge, 1912-1920; plan for the never built St Paul's Bridge, 1911 and diagram of the Southwark Bridge intersection with Queen Street Place, Queen Street and Upper Thames Street, 1968.

Plans of wharves and docks including plan of Stone Wharf, Hannott Wharf, and Ramseys Wharf, showing the properties there including Justice Hartley, George Ale House, Captain Metcalfe and the Comptroller's House, 1710; plan of Billingsgate Dock showing adjoining premises and encroachments on the dock, 1700s; the Hay's Wharf area, 1803-1859; plan of alterations to Billingsgate Market and Dock showing the layout of the sheds, tables and flaps, and naming the premises or occupiers of houses behind the Piazza, 1828-1829; wharfs and quays between London Bridge and Billingsgate, 1838; general plans of Letts Wharf, 1876-1897 and diagrams showing sections of Fryer's Destructor Apparatus [a rubbish incinerator], Letts Wharf, 1887; plans and photographs of Hornchurch Wharf, Essex, 1897-1953; proposals for a dam, locks and sluices at Gravesend, Thames Harbour, 1905; Fresh Wharf, Lower Thames Street, Adelaide Place and the riverside east of London Bridge, 1909 and 1913; Letts Wharf, 1937 and map of the River Thames from Teddington to the Nove, showing the limits of the Port of London Authority and including a detailed map of the docks and communications, 1950.;Maps and plans of parks, gardens and cemeteries, including maps of Epping Forest, 1865-1882 and 1921-1968, including maps of areas where horse riding is not permitted and plan of pavilion, dais and refreshment tents for Queen Victoria's visit, 1882; plans of Burnham Beeches and East Burnham, 1808-1899, also War Department Requisition diagrammatic plans of Prisoner of War camp, huts occupied by squatters, built-up areas, huts awaiting removal and huts not being dealt with, 1946-1950 and the Macros Cottage and tearooms, Burnham Beeches, 1958; maps of West Ham Park, 1873 and 1895, also cottage and lodge, West Ham Park, prior to destruction by enemy action in World War Two; boundary survey with details of adjacent properties, West Wickham Common, [1900]; proposals for a new bandstand, Finsbury Circus Gardens, 1955; plans showing proposed open space at St Mary Aldermanbury, 1968; plan of Kenley Common showing tracks and areas suitable to be ridden over, 1934 and plans showing proposals for the post war reinstatement of Kenley Common, including removal of temporary installations and repair of bomb damage, 194-; plan of Coulsdon Common, Surrey, 1869 and plan of Coulsdon Common showing tracks suitable to be ridden over, 1934; plan of Farthing Downs and Fairdean Downs, Surrey, 1871 and plan of Farthing Downs showing tracks suitable to be ridden over, 1934; plan of Riddles Down, Surrey, 1912 and plan of Riddles Down showing tracks suitable to be ridden over, 1934; plan of North Woolwich Gardens, Woolwich, 1889; plan of Merton and Morden Urban District Council area showing Morden Park, 1936; plan of land at Kilburn commissioned under the Highgate and Kilburn open spaces Act 1886, showing 30 acres of land between Kensal Green Railway Station and Queen's Park Railway Station, 1886 and plan of a public park for Kilburn [Queen's Park], 1887; plan commissioned under the Highgate and Kilburn Open Spaces Act 1886 showing 30 acres of land at Highgate between Highgate Railway Station, the Alexandra Park Branch and the Edgware Highgate and London (Tunnel) Line of the Great Northern Railway, 1886; plan of the proposed layout for Gravel Pit Wood, Highgate, 1886; plan for new vaults, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, 1833; proposals to turn Bunhill Fields into a public garden, 1950-1959; plan of Alders Brook Farm in the parishes of Wanstead and Little Ilford in the County of Essex, surveyed in 1853 for suitability to become the City of London Cemetery; maps and plans of the City of London Cemetery and buildings on site, 1854-1855 and 1903-1928, including plans of the catacombs, dissenting or non-conformist chapels, Episcopal chapels, entrance gates, superintendent's house, old crematorium and public conveniences.

Plans of monuments, including proposals for improvements at Temple Bar, 1795 and 1834; elevation of Temple Bar facing the Strand, 1877; plan, sections and elevation of the Monument, drawn while undergoing repair, 1888; plans relating to re-erection of a statue of King William IV at St Mary's Church, Greenwich, 1936; proposal to re-erect statue of Sir Robert Peel in Aldersgate, 1951 and tracing of measurements of the Waithman Memorial [to Robert Waithman, Lord Mayor 1823-1824] with plan of proposed location for re-erection in St Bartholomew Close, 195-; proposals for re-erection of Temple Bar on the Embankment, 1950-1952 and proposals for re-erection in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1979 [Temple Bar was dismantled and sold, and re-erected in Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire until 2004 when it returned to the City].

Maps and plans of the Corporation owned Brandesburton Estate in Yorkshire, part of the bequest by Lady Anne Dacre, including a survey by John Brown, 1732 and plans of various estate properties, 1700-1917.

Maps and plans relating to the Second World War, including plan of the First Aid and Gas Cleansing Station at Great St Helens, 1938-1939; maps of the City showing the provision of public and private air raid shelters, and identifying areas where more shelters are needed, 1938-1940; plans and sections of air raid shelters, 1938-1949; map of the City showing divisional police stations, fire alarm posts, ambulance call boxes, and so on, 1939; maps of the City of London marked into areas of civil defence, showing positions of warden's posts and police and warden's divisions, 1940; plans showing air raid damage in the City, marking total destruction, demolition necessary, serious damage and slight damage, 1940-1944; map of area covered by Fire Watchers Squad No. 4, in the Vicinity of the Coal Exchange, 1941; map of the City showing buildings demolished or in course of demolition, buildings destroyed and partially demolished, churches destroyed, static water tanks and so on, 1942; plan showing the districts of No. 36 Fire Force, covering the eastern half of the City of London, parts of Middlesex, and parts of Essex, 1944; general plan of the City showing site of fly bomb incidents in 1944; plan of London showing licensed premises, including those damaged, [1940]; plans of the Camomile Street area post-war redevelopment, including plan showing bomb damage, 1948; maps prepared under theWar Damaged Sites Act 1949, 1950 and redevelopment, Barbican area, 1954 - 1959, including plan of war damage.

Copy of a map of Deptford with remarks by John Evelyn, 1600s; plan of the Society of Apothecaries Physic Garden, Chelsea, 1725; poster showing "Rules, Orders and Regulations for the preservation of brood and fry of fish in the River of Thames and Waters of Medway within the jurisdiction of the City of London", 1754-1755; plans of the Pneumatic Despatch Co. Ltd. accompanying notices of intention to open and break up portions of the Holborn Viaduct for the purposes of laying their pneumatic dispatch tube, 1869; Post Office plan of pneumatic tube between Farringdon Street and St. Martin's le Grand, 1869?; sketch and photograph of the Aldgate pump, 1887; plans drawn by W H Poole of the City Police showing the crime scenes, Houndsditch Murders, 1911; plan of the Daily Sketch and Sunday Herald Pneumatic Pipe, 1925; plan and section of Leathern Doublet Sewer under City of London Brewery, Upper Thames Street, 1935; plans showing the proposed location of the Festival of Britain, 1951 and proposals for a refuse tip at Mucking, Stanford le Hope, Essex, 1954-1959.

Plans used by the City Architect, Planning Department, 1752-1979, including plans, diagrams, maps and photographs of City of London and Greater London housing estates, offices, warehouses, wharves, churches, railway stations and tunnels, police stations, public houses, schools and colleges, the Guildhall complex, Mansion House, markets (including the Metropolitan Cattle Market, Spitalfields, Billingsgate, Leadenhall and London Central Market), streets, squares, bridge approach roads, City of London Cemetery, courts, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, open spaces, parks and gardens, the Monument and sewer systems, 1752-1979.

Also plans of Tower Pier, 1827-1828; Victoria Embankment, 1910, including proposals for a miniature rifle range; plans of the proposed site for Fairlop Airport, Essex, 1938-1950; War Department plans of Burnham Beeches, 1940-1946; anti tank ditches in Epping Forest, 1945; tracings of sites of Temple Bar and Temple Bar Memorial, with tracings of elevations and detail of Memorial, and notes on history, sculptors etc, also includes tracings of Queen Anne's Statue in front of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1960.

Papers and maps of George James Brown, land agent and surveyor, relating to premises in Ealing, Hanworth, Hampton and South Mimms, 1894-1900; including report, with plan, presenting case for damages to value of Mr. Wood's estate east of Hangar Lane, Ealing, caused by construction of Ealing and South Harrow Railway, 1899; papers relating to a dispute between The New River Company and The Gye Process Fresh Foods Co. Ltd over the purchase of land in Hanworth, with plan of the disputed premises, 1899-1900; particulars, plan and illustrations of building land for sale on the Marling Park Estate, Hampton, 1900; and Ordnance Survey maps, with annotations.

Map of Yeoveney Farm, Staines, 1775 and map of Batcher Heath Farm, Ruislip, 1810.