Records of Poultry Compter, 1669-1876, including charge books; commitment books; warrants for arrest; lists of prisoners; papers relating to the office of clerksitter; orders and payments relating to rebuilding work; administrative papers including proceedings and minutes.

Records of the City of London Police, 1520-2000, including papers of the Chief officer and Police Commissioner; orders and regulations; papers relating to the building and maintenance of police stations; correspondence; press cuttings; reports; leaflets and brochures; issues of Citywatch, the City of London Police Magazine; papers relating to the City of London Police Reserve (Special Constabulary); papers relating to the Detective Division; manuals and orders; papers relating to the police force during World War Two, including Police War Duties Committee minutes; papers, including photographs and plans, relating to the Houndsditch murders, 1910-1911; record of the inquest held in 1888 by the Coroner of the City of London on Catherine Eddowes, one of the victims of 'Jack the Ripper', and other correspondence relating to the 'Jack the Ripper' murders; records of predecessors to the City of London Police including constables and watch and ward; and financial accounts.

Records relating to the management of open spaces in and around London, 1703-1999, including issues of Ashtead Common News, 1991-1997; histories and guidebooks, transcriptions of inscriptions, tomb surveys, bills for maintenance work and financial accounts for Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, 1703-1991; guidebooks, photographs, papers on pollard and tree management and newsletters for Burnham Beeches, 1883-1998; issues of West Wickham and Coulsdon Commons newsletter, later renamed Kent and Surrey Commons newsletter, 1989-1997; pamphlets, guidebooks and newsletters for Hampstead Heath, 1990-1999; guidebooks, pamphlets and histories of Highgate Wood, 1974-1986; financial accounts, brochures and photographs for Queen's Park, Kilburn, 1884-1987; reports, administrative papers, histories and list of war staff for West Ham Park, 1901-1991 and general papers regarding open spaces, churchyards and gardens maintained by the Corporation of London, including brochures, guidebooks and 'Britain in Bloom' certificates, 1870-1993.

Staff records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including staff standing orders; photographs of staff and related papers and correspondence; instructions, guides and notes for staff; circulars; reminiscences of staff pensioners; papers relating to staff salaries and pension schemes; Eagle Pension Funds Limited: ledgers; papers, correspondence and photographs relating to staff social activities; and magazines.

Photographs of London scenes relating to the government of London and the provision of education, healthcare and welfare services in the 1930s and 1940s. On the backs of the photographs there are typescript captions.

Scenes include the election of the Lord Mayor in the Guildhall; Corporation of London meetings held at Mansion House after Guildhall was burnt out by incendiary bombs; the Lord Mayor's Show; a policeman standing next to Big Ben; Tower Bridge and Pool of London; River Police boarding a coasting steamer moored in the Thames; Covent Garden Market with sacks and baskets stacked outside; County Hall taken from across the Thames; London County Council in session at County Hall; photograph of a sketch map showing location of London County Council housing estates; flats recently completed by London County Council; mains sewer with repair work in progress; map showing open spaces maintained by London County Council; view from Richmond Hill showing stretch of country beside River Thames maintained as an open space by London, Middlesex and Surrey County Councils; babies being weighed at a Child Welfare Centre; exterior view of Honor Oak girls' secondary school maintained by London County Council; cookery class at Carlyle School, Chelsea, a London County Council Girls' secondary school; lunch time at an elementary school; school medical inspection; evacuation of London mothers with children under five, with boy scout assisting; boys in dormitory of a school camp; balconies at the ends of ward blocks, North Eastern Hospital for infectious diseases, later St Ann's Hospital, Tottenham; ward with female patients suffering from tuberculosis at Pinewood Sanatorium, Surrey; verandah of Claybury Hospital, Essex, a London County Council mental hospital; exterior of New Malden Branch Library, Surrey; interior of children's library, New Malden Branch Library, Surrey; women using an ironing machine in a communal laundry.

Also photographs of wartime services including women entering a memorial hall used as a wartime restaurant by the London County Council Londoners' Meals Service; British Restaurant kitchen; Rest Centre for people suddenly made homeless; Air Raid Heavy Rescue Workers in action; patient on stretcher being lifted into London County Council ambulance; London Fire Brigade Headquarters; Fire Service dealing with a fire in Central London caused by incendiary bombs; Fire Service on River Thames fire float provided by the London County Council for dealing with fires in the docks.

Corporate records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including deeds of settlement; acts of parliament; Board of directors: minutes and agendas, resolutions and presented papers; annual general meeting minutes; annual reports and quinquennial valuations; lists of directors, trustees and secretary; death and burial certificates; notes on memorials related to the Chubb family; statutory declaration and related papers; deed and conveyance of assets; key register for strongroom and seal keys; and papers relating to amalgamation.

Records of the Court of Common Council, Corporation of London, 1272-2002, including journals, 1416-2000; subject index to journals, 1416-1811; index to the repertories, journals and letter books, 1416-1750; indexed printed minutes, 1811-1965; fair minutes, 1788-1880; rough minutes 1866-1970; Public Health Department journals, 1898-1947; Principal Clerk's rough books, 1875-1916; Town Clerk's rough books, 1954-2002; agendas, 1773-2001 (with gaps); papers (reports, letters and documents laid before the Common Council), 1643-2001 (with gaps); Town Clerk's rough papers, 1956-2000; Acts of the Common Council, 15th century - 1806; standing orders, 1880 and 1941; pocket books (lists of members and officers, committees and other information), 1788-2011; extracts regarding committees of the Common Council, 1400-1732; extracts from letter books regarding the constitution of the Common Council, 1272-1327; other administrative papers relating to the Common Council, including petitions, regulations, powers and so on; papers regarding the election of Common Councilmen, 1536-1964; papers regarding porters, 1606-1860; papers regarding fellowship porters, 1607-1934; papers regarding tackle house and ticket porters, 1607-1823; papers regarding byelaws, 1543-1993; modification orders, 1964-1983; closing orders, 1949-1974; papers relating to tree preservation, 1969-1998; stopping up orders (highways), 1963-2002; stopping up orders (public paths), 1981-2000 and papers relating to town planning, 1972-1996.

NB - 'tackle porters' were responsible for loading and unloading ships and a 'fellowship porter' was a member of the fellowship of the Porters of Billingsgate. 'Ticket porters' were members of a body of porters in the City of London who were licensed by the Corporation; originally called street-porters, and distinct from tackle porters. They were entitled to work in the Corporation markets.

Minute books of the Establishment Committee, Court of Common Council, 1963-2003. Please note these records are closed for 75 years from the date of the last entry.

Papers of Doctor Norah Schuster, [1930]-1983, comprising copies of her published articles on the Royal Chest Hospital, its founder Doctor Isaac Buxton and the Western General Dispensary at Saint Marylebone; drafts and notes for her publications, including notes for an unpublished history of the Royal Chest Hospital; research papers relating to Doctor Isaac Buxton, and illustrations for the life of Doctor Isaac Buxton and the history of the Western General Dispensary.

Papers of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital Staff Action Committee, 1969-1988, including Committee minutes; general correspondence; proposals for the future of the Hospital; correspondence with peers and Members of Parliament; papers concerning dealings with health and local authorities; letters of support; papers regarding publicity; pamphlets and publications.

Papers, 1744-1924, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Edgware and Little Stanmore, including copies of court rolls, copies of probates of wills, sales particulars, mortgages, papers relating to land tax, assignments of lease and plans.

Papers, 1898, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising plan of Greenhill Park, Willesden, showing proposed roads and building plots.

Papers, 1838-1956, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Chiswick and Willesden, including mortgages, leases, articles of agreement and correspondence. Also papers of the Gedge family comprising marriage settlement and appointment of trustee; and papers of Logsdail family including copy marriage certificate, copy will, mortgage, notices to trustees and settlement of assignment.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising particulars and conditions of sale of freehold riverside bungalow known as "Summerholme", Penton Hook, Staines, 1927.

Papers, 1811-1893, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Cowley, Hillingdon and Edgware, including leases, releases and conveyances. Also grant of grave space in Harmondsworth to Francis Pitt Wood and wife Anna Maria 4, Delamere Street, Paddington.

Papers, 1779-1921, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Finchley, Hendon, Hanworth, Holborn, Islington, Kensington, Saint Pancras and the following Westminster parishes: Saint Clement Danes. Saint George Hanover Square, Saint James, Saint Margaret and Saint Martin in the Fields; including plans, conveyances, mortgages, lease and releases, bonds, covenants to produce deeds and assignments.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a mortgage for two pieces of land at Ponders End, Enfield, on north side of South Street, 19 Nov 1880.

Papers, 1800-1896, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Old Park Estate, Enfield; Strawberry House, Chiswick and Stanwell, including probate of will, conveyances, mortagages, copies of court rolls and leases. Also papers of Lear Drew including licences to assign leases, agreements and leases.

Papers, 1827-1919, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Saint John's Wood, Saint Marylebone and Hampstead including leases, assignments of leases, mortgages and an abstract of title.

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

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

Papers, 1907-1923, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Deans Road, Seward Road, Cuckoo Lane and Park Road (at one time Cowper Road), Hanwell and St Kilda Road, Ealing; including conveyances and mortgages.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and plan for land and messuages, being first house west from Chalk Farm Tavern on north side of the Regent's Park Road [87 Regent's Park Road], 1866; and assignment of remainder of lease for 87 Regent's Park Road to another party, 1903.

Records of the Heelis family, including certificates of attendance of Edward Heelis at medical lectures at Apothecaries Hall, 1853-55; apprenticeship indenture of William Heelis, 1859; and testimonials of Robert Heelis, 1881-83.

Records of Lee and Pembertons, solicitors, 1882-1953, including bills of costs; a series of bundles consisting of draft bills of costs each followed by the relevant copy out-letters; general copy out-letter books kept in chronological order and indexed by correspondent; files of correspondence relating to the maintenance of the Eyre Estate, arranged alphabetically by street name; Counsels' fee books; share ledger and general office files.

Records of Edwin Ashdown Ltd, 1890-1955, including minute book, agenda books, register of debentures, plate books of bibliographical interest arranged by name of composer (with annotations covering 1898-1968), a catalogue and lists of publications and distribution book.

Also records of Enoch and Sons Ltd, comprising minute book with agenda papers, 1927-1936.

These records relate to the activities of William Henry Oliver, solicitor. They include deeds relating to Devonshire Road, Forest Hill, including correspondence, leases and mortgages for Florence, Violet, Rose, Constance and Hawthorne Villas. The collection also includes personal and financial papers of W.H. Oliver relating to the winding up of his Estate. These papers (expecially ACC/2184/62-101) concern his activity as Trustee of the wills of Thomas Oliver (his father) and Arthur Oliver (his brother), and as Trustee of the Marriage Settlement of Mrs Sanders (his sister).

Records of the Parish of Saint Thomas, Southwark, comprising an account book of the Overseers of the Poor, 1739-1775.

Papers, 1852-1949, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties at 35-41 King David Lane, Shadwell and at James Smith's Estate at Peckham; including leases, mortgages, probates of wills, assignments, declarations, certificates, plans, abstracts of title, conveyances, deeds of covenant and death certificates.

Records of various constituent, predecessor and associated companies of Courage, Barclay and Simonds, brewers; with records relating to licensed and other premises (distinguished by the reference PH). The amount and type of papers vary from company to company, and include corporate records, accounting records, sales and production records, papers relating to premises including breweries and public houses, papers relating to staffing, personal papers of individuals and public relations department records.

The constituent, predecessor and associated companies for which there are records in this collection include (for further information please consult the separate sub-fonds entry for each company):

Anchor Taverns Ltd
Arndale - Horselydown Ltd
Arthur Cooper (Wine Merchant) Ltd
Ashby's Staines Brewery Ltd
Ashford Valley Cyders Ltd
Ashton Gate Brewery Company Ltd
Barclay Perkins (Sudan) Ltd (Blue Nile Brewery)
Barclay Perkins and Co. Ltd
Basingstoke Town Properties Ltd
Bournemouth Wine Company Ltd
Bristol Brewery Georges and Co. Ltd
Bristol United Breweries Ltd
C.N. Kidd and Son Ltd
Camden Brewery Company Ltd
Camwal Ltd
Cantrell and Cochrane Ltd
Carlos and Thrale Ltd
Catering Services (Newark) Ltd
Chandlers Ltd
Charles Beasley Ltd
Charles Kinloch and Co. Ltd
Charlton Brewery Company Ltd
Clinch and Co. Ltd
Courage and Barclay Ltd
Courage and Co. Ltd (including Courage (Central) Ltd; Courage (Eastern) Ltd; Courage (Export) Ltd and Courage (Western) Ltd)
Courage Group and Courage Ltd
Courage, Barclay and Simonds Ltd
Couratown Property Developments Ltd
Crocker Brothers Ltd
Dartford Brewery Company Ltd
Farnham United Breweries Ltd
G. Hall and Co. Ltd
George Raggett and Sons Ltd
H. and G. Simonds Ltd
H. and G. Watts (1935) Ltd
Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Ltd
Herbert Stebbings and Sons Ltd
Hodgson's Kingston Brewery Company Ltd
Horselydown Property Investment Company (Developments) Ltd
Horselydown Property Investment Company Ltd
HPIC: associated companies
James Hole and Co. Ltd
John May and Co. Ltd
Kingston Brewery Property Company Ltd
Lawn and Alder Ltd
London and Provincial Shop Centres (Horselydown) Ltd
London and Provincial Shop Centres Horselydown (Slough) Ltd
McGeorge and Heppenstalls Ltd
McManus - Horsleydown Ltd
Medway Mineral Waters Ltd
Mumford Hotels Ltd
Nevile Reid and Co. Ltd
Nicholson and Sons Ltd
Noakes and Co. Ltd
Oakhill Brewery Company Ltd
Octagon Brewery Ltd
Old Brewery Property Development Company Ltd
Phillips and Sons Ltd
Plymouth Breweries Ltd
R. Halley Ltd
Reffells Bexley Brewery Ltd
Royal Brewery Brentford Ltd
Saccone and Speed Ltd
Santovin Ltd
Sheffield and District Public House Trust Company Ltd
Shepton Mallet Town Street Investments Ltd
Slough Retail Centre Ltd
South Berkshire Brewery Company Ltd
South Coast Bottling Company Ltd
Star Brewery Company Ltd
Stratford Catering Company Ltd
Style and Winch Ltd
Torquay Brewing and Trading Company Ltd
Town and City Properties Ltd
Union Breweries Ltd
Wheeler's Wycombe Breweries Ltd
Whepstead Properties Ltd
Wolton and Attwood Ltd
Yardley's London and Provincial Stores Ltd
York Mineral Water Company Ltd.

Corporate records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, brewers, including legal case papers; papers relating to the organisation of the company; Board meetings minutes, agendas and papers; financial accounts; reports; papers relating to stocks and shares; mortgages and deeds; registers; investment ledger; articles of association and partnership deeds.

Financial records of Barclay Perkins, brewers, including rest books; balance sheets; ledgers; journals; cash books and cash analysis and audit.

Public relations records for Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including papers from the museum and library relating to the history of the brewery, including press cuttings, plans, drawings, photographs, certificates, pamphlets, beer accounts, maps, publications relating to brewing, and papers relating to the Barclay family.

Also memorabilia relating to author Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), friend of the Thrale family (the latter owned the Brewery before selling it to Barclay and Perkins).

Corporate records of the Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including minutes of the directors' board; correspondence; press cuttings; managing director's reports; memorandum and articles of association; papers about political matters; papers regarding Sudan; compensation files; papers regarding the organisation of the brewery and visits file.

Sales and production records for Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including wine and spirit trade files; sales files and technical consultancy agreement.

Staff records of Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including papers relating to appointments, trainees and head brewers; papers relating to salaries; papers relating to trade unions; and records relating to the Institute of Brewing.

Staff records for Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including papers relating to the pension scheme; and staff record sheets.

Property records for Courage and Company Limited, brewers, including Plans Committee minutes and papers; London Properties Committee minutes and papers; financial records relating to estates income; estate maintenance records; public house ledgers; public house deeds; agreements; plans; maintenance diaries.

Records of Farnham United Breweries Limited, including Directors' meeting minute books; press cuttings; agenda book; lists of properties purchased; financial accounts; registers of mortgages and probates; register of sealing.

Sales records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, comprising 'Mr W R N's papers and notes regarding the triangle trade mark 1929 (Bass and Co) 'No 4 Box', pursued in High Court and, in 1951, House of Lords.

Corporate records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including Board meeting minutes; registers of directors, members, debentures, mortgages, seals and testamentary records; papers relating to shares; articles of association and papers relating to the acquisiton by Courage and Barclay.

Financial records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including impersonal ledgers; cash books; bank cash books; correspondence and accounts relating to taxation.

Sales records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including sales ledgers and clubs journals.

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including Group Sales Committee papers; correspondence and papers regarding complimentary drinks; sales ledger transfer journals; registers of trademarks for UK and overseas products.

Sales records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, including purchase journals for wines and spirits; wines, spirits and soft drinks sales ledgers; bottled beer ledger; 'foreign' beer ledger and beer sales ledger.

Production records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, including purchase ledger for malt and stout; record of malt, sugar and hops used; malt, beer, wine and spirits stock books; malt review and subsequent memorandum; list of breakages; and draught beer daily returns book.

Staff records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, including wages books; salaries ledgers; records relating to compensation; papers relating to the pension scheme; and savings bonds certificates.

Premises records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, comprising purchase journals (repairs).

Corporate records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including minutes, agendas and related papers; Directors' papers; papers relating to stocks and shares; trust deeds; debenture records; agreements; papers and diaries of the Company Secretary; agreements; debenture stock records; annual returns; articles of association; certificate of incorporation; register of seals; papers relating to acquisitions; financial correspondence; annual reports with accounts.

Sales records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including papers relating to beer sales; sales summary sheets; sales journals; records of free trade and tied trade; records regarding wines and spirits; customer accounts; sales representatives expenses and sales records; stock and debt books; Building Department stock lists; price lists; papers relating to lager sales.