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[WANTED - photographs, negatives, schedules etc of London's trolleybuses, whether in service, in the depot, awaiting disposal or at the scrapyard. Also service/repair ledgers, records, timetables, blinds, doors & other parts.] If you have negatives but don't want to part with them, can they be borrowed?
[Cockerton family
document] Cockerton=Stewart Marriage Settlement
This deed was drawn up in 1859 in anticipation of the
marriage of Jonas Cockerton of Austin Friars and Caroline daughter of James
Stewart of Old Broad Street. A lengthy document in manuscript on 3 large
parchment sheets, bearing the bold signatures Jonas Cockerton, Caroline Stewart,
and the other parties involved. The three sheets are holed where old folds
cross, but nothing serious. (ref 6800)
£20.00 post-free Not for export
London Consistory Court
Depositions 1586-1611: List and Indexes
London Record Society vol 32, 1995. Tall 8vo in familiar blue
cloth boards, 333pp inc indexes of names and of places. Details of 1,787
witness depositions on such matters as tithes, ecclesiastical conduct,
matrimonial enforcement, and (most of all) defamation. A F copy despite
having a 'WITHDRAWN' red rubber stamp on the fep (no clue as to why the book was
withdrawn, as the rest of the book is perfect). We understand this fairly
heavy book is still in print at £20 + postage. (ref 2399) £10.00
The following list excludes books
specifically on places in today's (much) Greater London; for example everything South of
the Thames is historically in Surrey. Such books/documents will be found on
the Middlesex/Surrey/Kent/Essex lists in line with the Phillimore Atlas.
The Diary of Joseph Jenkinson of Dronfield [Derbyshire] 1833-43
Edited by Kathleen M Battye, Derbyshire Record Society Occasional Paper No 7,
1987. A5 booklet in cream card covers, 95pp inc index, 6 ills inc centrefold map of
Dronfield in 1846 taken from the Inclosure Award. Joseph Jenkinson was born into a family
of hatmakers. His sporadic diaries written in the years 1833 (Dronfield), 1839 (London)
and 1843 (London) supplemented by a series of letters written in 1839 (from London)
provide insights into the life and times of the skilled working class both in London and
the Provinces in the 1830s and 1840s. All this is accompanied by a full introduction and
notes plus appendices. G. (ref 0000) *£2.50
The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's
Church in London
Sir Norman Moore, 1923. 72pp. Nice copy, VG. (ref 2702) £10.00
[Holborn documents] Copy Deeds
to Houses in Bear Alley
Copies [made in 1840] of a release
dated 1790 and a lease and release of 1823, the former involving John Arnett of
Chick Lane, the latter ones concerning his brother James of Herefordshire.
The 3 documents (ref 826/36) £20.00 post-free
Not for export
[Holborn documents] Papers
concerning Wheatsheaf Yard
The Wheatsheaf PH was situated at 23
Farringdon Street. When it and all the surrounding buildings were pulled
down in 1906 the question of rights of way over and through the former
Wheatsheaf Yard arose. These papers are the results of legal machinations
and should be of great interest to the local historian. NB there is little
or nothing about the PH itself. 10 items large and small. (ref
826/37) £30.00 post-free Not for export
Historical Notices of the Collegiate
Church...of St Martin-le-Grand, London
Alfred John Kempe, 1825. 212pp. The title continues 'formerly occupying the
site now appropriated to the new General Post Office; chiefly founded on authentic and
hitherto inedited manuscript documents connected locally with the history of the
foundation, and generally with antient customs and eminent persons; also observations on
the different kinds of sanctuary formerly recognised by the common law'. Worn red half
calf, worn marbled boards, several small articles on sanctuary stuck to front pastedown
and fep, bottom inch of backstrip calf missing. (ref 2766) £55.00
[St Martin, Outwich] Transactions of the
London & Middlesex Archaeological Society
New Series vol 6 pt 1, 1929. Usual buff card covers, xxix+218pp,
several plate-ills. Of particular interest is a 91pp article on The Parish and
Church of St Martin, Outwich. Perhaps the smallest and one of the oldest (and
apparently in its latter appearance, one of the ugliest) of the London churches, this
stood at the East end of Threadneedle Street. It narrowly escaped the Great Fire in
1666 when the flames stopped a few yards away, was damaged by a devastating fire in
Bishopsgate in 1765 and patched up, rebuilt in 1796 and, following a decision in 1853 to
do away with 30 London churches, St Martin's was pulled down, though not - apparently -
till 1893. 8 of the plate-ills relate to St Martin's. Spine sunned but not
unduly so, overall VG. (ref 0000) £12.50
The Register Book of the Parish of St Nicholas
Acons, London, 1539-1812
William Brigg, 1890. Foolscap size, 160pp inc index. Original paper
covers very grubby & held on with 2 strips of sellotape. Paper spine crumbled
away. Contents unopened. (ref 7876) £22.50
Another copy
Original paper covers very grubby & large part of bottom corner of front
cover missing. Contents unopened. (ref 7877) £22.50
Another copy
Recently cased in black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, new eps,
original paper covers bound in. VG unopened copy. (ref 7878) £40.00
2nd Copy of Above
Ref 7879 £40.00
[Kingsway] Duplicate Licence affecting
Queen's House & Public Trustee's Office
This duplicate, bearing the seal of The Commissioners of His Majesty's Works
and Public Buildings, is of a 1918 licence to form openings in the party wall between the
two buildings at 3rd floor level. Manuscript on 3 sides of folio paper, 2 plans of the
proposed alterations. (ref 754/283) *£3.00 Not for export
[Kingsway] Tenancy Agreement for part of
Queens House
This 1917 agreement relates to part of the fifth floor as shown on an
accompanying multifolding plan. The area in question was to be let to James Gordon &
Co & bears the signature James Gordon. (ref 20/52) *£5.00 Not for export
Ludgate Hill Past & Present
W P Treloar, 1892 2nd. Small 8vo, 144pp inc index, 17 ills. Cracked at
p64/65, spine grubby, G. (ref 2435) £8.50
Register of Burials at the Temple Church
1628-1853
Privately printed by the Middle Temple, 1905. Almost A4 size, 97pp inc
index. Very nice bright copy which we'd grade as F, and an unopened copy to boot.
(ref 3773) £25.00
Ordnance Survey Map of London
Multifolding linen backed map showing 'railways revised 1909'. Scale 2 miles
to the inch, this is sheet 34. A very nice clean copy, VG. (ref 6520) *£7.50
History of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
with some of the Principal Inscriptions
City Lands Committee of the Corporation of London, 1902. 12mo in printed
paper covers, 67pp, folding plan, slightly torn multifolding sheet of illustrations of
about 30-40 monuments of the more important persons. VG copy. (ref 0000) *£15.00
The Burial Register of the Spanish and
Portuguese Jews, London 1657-1735/List of Jews in London 1695
Part 6 of Miscellanies of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1962.
4to in printed grey card covers, 197pp of which the burial register occupies pp1-72 [this
is indexed]. Following this is A List of Jews and their Households in London
extracted from the census lists of 1695, which covers pp73-141. Very nice clean
copy, easily VG. (ref 1734) £25.00