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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?

The Street-Names of Acton Middlesex
R N G Rowland, 2nd ed, corrected & enlarged, 1977. A4 format, orange paper covers enclosing 46 roneo'd pp, plastic spine. The origins and derivations of some 400 street names. A bit dogeared but G. (ref 0000)  *£4.00

[Bedford Park documents]  4 Deeds to House in Priory Avenue
A very incomplete sequence of deeds to 35 Priory Avenue (formerly 29 Hogarth Road) spanning the period 1881 to 1919.  One of the deeds bears a site plan.   The 4 (ref 524/26)  *£18.00  Not for export

[Bethnal Green document]  Assignment of House & Bakery in Hare Street
This 1894 deed assigns the lease of 32 Hare Street from George Joseph Pfisterer to Jacob Frederick Schnabel - both were bakers.  Included in the transaction was the 'goodwill, chattels and property.....in conjunction with the business of a baker.....'.  With the assignment comes a very dilapidated fire insurance certificate dating from 1863 - the Pfisterers had had quite a long association with 32 Hare Street.  The two items (ref 524/70)  *£10.00  Not for export

[Bow document]  Property Deed relating to The Gunmakers Arms, No 1 Providence Row, Old Ford Road
This 1880 deed records beer house keeper John Albert Freeman's borrowing £807. Parchment, signed John A Freeman. (ref 1/216)  *£10.00  Not for export

[Brompton document]  Mortgage of Properties in Sydney Place and Onslow Square
In passing, this 1869 deed tells the story of 5 Sydney Places and no's 32, 35 & 37 Onslow Square from 1844 when they were owned by the trustees of Smith's Charity (set up following the death of Henry Smith).  From 1865 the properties increasingly became the concern of Rev James McConnel Hussey and Lawrence James William Hussey, both of Brixton, and this 1869 mortgage brought their borrowing against the properties to the best part of £5000.  Lengthy deed in manuscript on 4 large parchment sheets, the backs of 3 of them used to record 3 subsequent deeds.  Interesting to see that the owners of the Onslow Square properties had the right to walk about in the communal but private garden there, and have a key to the gate.  (ref 524/66)  *£15.00  Not for export

A History of Camden - Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras
John Richardson, 1999.  4to, 176pp inc index, 142 ills inc many photos.   The three boroughs which make up today's Camden have been at the centre of London's history - hardly an aspect of the capital's development is absent from Camden's past.   The inner cover of this particular copy was damaged during production but as this is now underneath the front pastedown the visible effect is slight;  apart from this the book is F in VG d/w.  The title is still in print at £15.50, our copy a more affordable substitute at £8.50

2 Property Deeds to 60 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square
A couple of parchment deeds (an 1833 lease and an 1834 assignment) which involve builder George Glasier - though the actual owner of the property was the Duke of Portland.  The lease bears a hand-coloured site plan.  A bit grubby but no more than most others.  The pair (ref 88/312)  *£15.00  Not for export

Chiswick Past
Gillian Clegg, 2000 rep.  4to, 144pp inc index, 178 mostly photo-ills, good bibliography.  Bottom corners of 2 leaves torn away, contents slightly rippled though very clean, VG in VG d/w.  Still in print at £15.95, this author-signed copy (ref 625/43 half-price at £8.00

Christ Church, Ealing Broadway
1948 church pamphlet appealing for restoration funds following war-damage. (ref 0000)  *£1.00

[Ealing documents]  Papers concerning 19 The Avenue
6 documents spanning the period 1900-1959, most of them involving the Bonelli family.  (ref 524/22)  *£15.00  Not for export

Earl's Court and Brompton Past
Richard Tames, 2000.  4to, 144pp inc index, 173 ills, mostly photos.   The Great Exhibition [1851] was the catalyst to rapid development of the area from its mainly rural aspect to fashionably residential.  Many of the ills are pub for the first time.  In print at £15.95, this F copy (with a mild crease in 1 leaf) in VG d/w (ref 0000)  £8.50

[Greenford document]  Notification of Manorial Sitting, 1843
Printed notice with manuscript entries.  The court to sit at the Kings Arms at Hanwell and all copyholders were required to attend.  Worn, creased & torn but perhaps a remarkable survival in any condition.  (ref 80/11)  *£10.00  Not for export

Souvenir of The Parish Church of St Paul, Hammersmith
Anon, nd but c1920s. Grey printed covers, 1pp of text followed by 6 tipped in real photo ills, all of them interior views. Covers a bit grubby, a couple of the photos are loose. G. (ref 7256)  *£3.00

A History of the Broadway Congregational Church, Hammersmith
Sir William Bull, 1923. 4to, very faded (as usual) purple boards, 66pp inc index, 11 ills (10 of them plates still with tissue guards). VG. (ref 2136)  £18.50

[Hampstead documents]  Papers re 38 Lambolle Road
A 1904 assignment on parchment, a 1955 Land Registry certificate and a couple of 1964 documents. (ref 0000) The 4  *£8.00  Not for export

[Hampstead - see also Camden]

Hampton and Teddington Past
John Sheaf and Ken Howe, 1995.  4to, 144pp inc index, 182 ills, mainly photos.  F though a number of leaves are stuck along their edges so priced accordingly.  In print at £15.95, this copy £8.50

Harrow Past
Eileen M Bowlt, 2000.  4to, 144pp inc index, 184 mainly photo ills.   A misprinted copy, pp33-48 are missing;  instead pp49-64 are included twice.  Author signed, F in F price clipped d/w.  In print at £15.95, this copy priced for the misprinting at £4.50

The Architectural History of Harrow Church derived from a Study of the Building
Samuel Gardner, 1895.  Tall 8vo, 95pp, 41 plates as required, other ills in letter-press.  Recently rebound using original (rather grubby) boards & spine, new eps, teg, some spotting here & there but mostly clean inside.  VG copy of this scarce title.  (ref 6343)  £35.00

[Holborn - see also Camden]

[Holloway documents]  Property Deeds to 9 Mayton Street
5 deeds spanning the years 1878-1898, the two principal parties being Elizabeth Maria Daish [nee Cole] whose marriage settlement featured the property - her settlement is not one of the deeds on offer here - and Benjamin James Wilson who bought the leasehold in 1890.  All 5 deeds in manuscript on parchment.  The group (ref 4661)  *£20.00  Not for export

[Ickenham]  Swakeleys House - History and Guide
10pp brochure, A5, nd but modern.  Juvenile scrawl on back cover.   (ref 210/37)  *£1.00

[Islington documents]  Deeds relating to Arundel Place
4 parchment deeds, all dating from the 1860s, relating specifically to 8 Arundel Place, Westbourne Road, though two of the deeds are conveyances of 6 houses including no 8. (ref 11/8)  *£18.00  Not for export

[Islington documents]  Deeds to 14 Houses in Essex Road
These 3 parchment deeds (1868-1874) concern 14 properties collectively known as Eliot's Gardens 'at the back of the East side of Lower Street', Lower Street being renamed Essex Road later on.  The 3 (ref 524/14)  *£12.50  Not for export

[Kentish Town]  Re-numbering of Houses in Carlton Road
1902 extract from minutes of an 1860 Metropolitan Board of Works meeting, concerning the former no's 70 and 71 Carlton Road Villas which would henceforth be known as 30 and 28 Carlton Road. (ref 94)  *£2.00

[Lisson Grove document]  Schedule of Deeds & Documents relating to 8 Devonshire Street
Presumably the Devonshire Street in the modern Marylebone. A list of 8 or so property deeds ranging from 1823 to 1876. Rather over-folded and a bit dogeared. (ref 756/218)  *£3.00   Not for export

[Longford]  Sale Particulars of Cottages, Orchards and Meadow Land
Printed particulars for the sale held at the King's Head in 1844 of 3 cottages in the centre of Longford (two tenanted by Richard Green and Robert Bryan), a large farmyard tenanted by James Jarvis, a couple of orchards and two lots of meadow land.   From the description we'd say this concerns a block of land of perhaps 9 or 10 acres between the Bath Road and the Colne or one of its branches.  This particular copy was at the sale - it was used to record the bidding prograssion and the successful bidders ((Rummell and Heath) for each of the 4 lots.  Paper, 4 printed sides approx 9"x15", worn but a remarkable survival much older than the vast majority of printed sale particulars that appear on the market.  (ref 4735)  *£18.00

[Longford]  Sale Particulars of House and Market Garden
Printed particulars for the 1873 sale held at  the Chequers Hotel in Uxbridge of Bowmers Farm and Heaths Field, both of which had wide frontages to the Bath Road and which stretched back to the Queen's & Moor Bridge rivers.  Size of particulars approx 10"x16".  (ref 4749)  *£16.00

[Maida Vale documents]  Agreement re Block of Flats (Lanark Mansions)
This 1905 typewritten agreement concerns 1-20 Lanark Mansions, the lease of which was being sold for £8500. (ref 754/262)  *£4.00  Not for export

[Maida Vale documents]  Documents re 1-20 Lanark Mansions
Both dated 1913, these 2 items are an agreement extending the completion time of purchase, and contact for sale. The two items (ref 20/47)  *£6.00   Not for export

[Maida Vale documents]  Documents re 1-24 Alexandra Court
Both dated 1913, these 2 items are a sale agreement and a sale contract. The two items (ref 20/48)  *£6.00  Not for export

[Mayfair document]  Assignment of House in South Street
This 1797 deed records the assignment of the residue of a 79 year lease taken out in 1749 by the executors of the will of Sir William Codrington (died 1792) to widow Sarah Price who appears to have been the sitting tenant.  Looking back from 2006 it is impossible to say exactly which house it was, it being identified by the owners/leaseholders of adjoining properties - all we have to go on is that it was a brick built house 'fronting South Street towards the North'.  Manuscript on 4 large parchment sheets, bears signatures of the three trustees.  (ref 524/64)  *£18.00   Not for export

[Millwall document]  Counterpart Lease of Wharf & Buildings, 1854
This is the counterpart copy [ie signed by the lessors] of 'all that Wharf, Messuage or Dwelling House, Warehouse, Engine House, Chimney, Shafts, Buildings and Land thereunto situate and being at Mill Wall in the Parish of Poplar in the County of Middlesex....'.  A plan on the document shows the property bounded on the East by the Poplar and Greenwich Ferry Road [today's West Ferry Road] and on the West by the Thames.   Evidently the 21 year lease was terminated at an early date as the 3 pairs of seals have been rather crudely cut out.  Curiously they've been retained as sepaprate items inside the as-folded document.  Manuscript on 2 large parchment sheets.  (ref 680/12)  *£8.00  Not for export

[Millwall document]  Counterpart Lease of Wharf & Buildings 1857
This document is the counterpart copy of a later lease of the above premises.   The lease appears to have been terminated in 1859.  It too has the signatures cut away but retained loose in the as-folded document.  It also has what seems to be the corresponding part (ie the bit with signatures & seals on) from the lease itself, and one can only assume the main body of the lease was destroyed in 1859.  (ref 681/22)  *£8.00  (both items £12.50)  Not for export

[Paddington documents]  Documents concerning Chilworth Street (formerly Charles Street)
Three documents (an 1843 copy lease, an 1846 mortgage and an 1846 reassignment) concern No's 1-7 Charles Street, which appear to have been built around 1840, and an 1899 assignment of a lease of 3 Chilworth Street, formerly 2 Charles Street.   The 4 documents (ref 120/55)  *£20.00  Not for export

[Paddington documents]  Documents concerning No 1 Porteus Road
An 1842 lease bearing a very useful hand-coloured site plan, the counterpart copy of an 1869 lease bearing a similar plan, and an 1870 licence to replace a raised terrace and steps in front of the house by an open forecourt with iron railings.  All 3 documents are in manuscript on parchment.  The 3 (ref 120/56)  *£20.00   Not for export

[Paddington document]  Mortgage of Leasehold Premises in Praed Street
This 1883 mortgage is of 120 & 122 (formerly 50 & 51) Praed Street - also of property in Battersea.  Manuscript on single large parchment sheet.   (ref 683/19)  *£6.00  Not for export

[North Paddington documents]  Deeds Relating to 22 Westbourne Terrace
A collection ranging in dates from 1853 to 1905, all 7 items in manuscript on parchment.  The earlier 2 deeds also concern number 24.  The collection (ref 88/108)  *£35.00  Not for export

[Poplar document]  Counterpart Copy of Lease of the Marquiss of Lorne Beerhouse
This is the counterpart copy (ie signed by the lessee, beer retailer Thomas John Pope) of a 21 year lease of  'All that messuage tenement beerhouse and premises situate and being No 10 formerly No 4 on the East side of Chrisp Street.....'.  A pencil note elsewhere in the document indicates a further re-numbering of the property to No 8.  Manuscript on 2 large parchment sheets.  (ref 120/50)  *£12.50   Not for export

[Regents Park/St Pancras documents]  5 Deeds relating to The Jolly Farmers Public House, Cumberland Market
This is an incomplete series of deeds covering the period 1873 to 1894. Publicans mentioned are Josiah Carter (with signature, 1873), William Edward Cummings (with signatures, 1881 & 1888), Harry George Smith (with signatures, 1888 & 1890). Not easy to place The Jolly Farmers precisely, even though one of the deeds contains a small site plan - evidently the area has been altered since then. The group of 5 (ref 1/220)  *£25.00  Not for export

Norfolk Road, St John's Wood: Celebrating the First 150 Years
B M G Smedley, 1997. A5 booklet in yellow card covers enclosing 68pp inc 5 full page ills. Very useful micro-local history. Published at £15.00 and presumably still in print, this F copy (ref 40/53) more affordable at  *£7.50

[St Pancras - see Camden]

[St Pancras document]  Assignment of Lease of The Lord Nelson Public House, Dukes Road
This 1857 assignment is by licensed victualler David Smith who had money problems.  Manuscript on 5 large parchment sheets, signed David Smith.  (ref 680/19)  *£10.00  Not for export

[St Mary's, Somers Town document]  Appeal for Funds
1906 printed appeal addressed to LNWR shareholders (since Euston Station occupied about a third of the parish). "Here we have a large population of poor people chiefly of the casual and unskilled labourer class..." (ref C195/36)  *£3.00

[Tottenham documents]  Property Deeds relating to High Cross Road
A bundle of 7 documents (4 of them vellum) concerning property at 29 & 31 High Cross Road (formerly 28 & 29 High Cross Terrace, High Cross Lane) tracing ownership, leasing and mortgaging via several hands during the period 1880 to 1920. Still in solicitors' deed pouch. (ref 0000)  £20.00  Not for exportt

[Tottenham documents]  3 Property Deeds to 8, 10, 12, 14 Culross Road
A 1900 conveyance & mortgage and a 1903 further charge (additional mortgage), all on parchment.  It would seem the houses were fairly new.  The 3 (ref 21/72)  *£7.50  Not for export

[Tottenham document]  Mortgage of The Cabinet Dining Rooms, Ferry Lane
This 1920 mortgage is of 'all that piece of ground situate at Tottenham Hale.....together with the messuage shop and buildings erected thereon and now known as the Cabinet Dining Rooms.....'.  Printed document on parchment, bears the signature of the mortgagee Cornelius Ferdinand Muller (ref 4662)  *£6.00  Not for export

[Twickenham document]  Sale Particulars
1889 sale particulars of no's 1 & 2 Montpelier Row. This is the contract copy signed by the vendors' agent and showing the two properties were sold for £1100. Very worn and extensively torn along folds. (ref 0000/274)  *£3.00

[Twickenham document]  Lease of 32 Cresswell Road
This is the counterpart copy [ie signed by the lessee rather than the lessor] of a 1900 lease which was nominally for 99 years.  It is a printed document on parchment and bears a useful plan showing the row of houses no's 18-44 Cresswell Road with number 32 highlighted.  The lessor Henry Cresswell Foulkes lived close by and appears to have owned many other local properties.  These houses in Cresswell Road were evidently recently built and it is easy to see where the name originated.  (ref 338)   £6.00 post-free  Not for export

Uxbridge Past
Carolynne Cotton, 1994.  4to, 144pp inc index, 185 ills, mostly photos.   Both rear ep and pastedown are cut short by about half an inch - a fluke in the binding process, nevertheless a very nice clean copy in like d/w.  Still in print at £14.95, this copy (ref 625/78)  £7.50

[West Brompton documents]  Deeds to 33 Cathcart Road
5 parchment deeds (4 dated 1866, the other dated 1896).  (ref 206/24)   *£20.00  Not for export

West Drayton Past and Present
S A J McVeigh, 1950.  Small 4to, 96pp inc index, 18 photo-ills, double-page map.  Harmondsworth, Longford and Heathrow all get a mention.   Grubby oatmeal cloth boards, contents nice and clean though there's a small red pencil mark in the margin of 1 page.  Very scarce.  (ref 4131)  £16.00

[West Hampstead documents]  Leases etc - Crediton Road [Now Crediton Hill] & Fawley Road
The following are available:-
1899 lease of the 2nd house on the east side of Crediton Road, southwards of West End Lane (ref 1/226)  *£6.00  Not for export
1899 lease of the 3rd house on the east side of Crediton Road, southwards of West End Lane (ref 1/227)  *£6.00  Not for export
1899 lease & counterpart of the 4th house ditto. 2 items (ref 1/228)  *£9.00   Not for export
Counterpart copy of 1899 lease of the 5th house ditto (ref 1/229)  *£6.00   Not for export
1900 lease of the 2nd house in Fawley Road eastward of Honeybourne Road (ref 1/230)  *£6.00  Not for export
1899 lease & counterpart of the 2nd house in Fawley Rd westward of Honeybourne Rd. 2 items (ref 1/231)  *£9.00  Not for export
1899 lease & counterpart of the 3rd house in Fawley Rd westward of Honeybourne Rd. 2 items (ref 1/232)  *£9.00  Not for export
1900 lease & counterpart of the 3rd house in Fawley Rd eastward of Honeybourne Rd. 2 items (ref 1/233)  *£9.00  Not for export
1900 lease & counterpart of the 4th house in Fawley Rd eastward of Honeybourne Rd. 2 items (ref 1/234)  *£9.00  Not for export
1900 lease of the 5th house in Fawley Road eastward of Honeybourne Road (ref 1/235)  *£6.00  Not for export
1900 lease of the 6th house in Fawley Road eastward of Honeybourne Road (ref 1/236)  *£6.00  Not for export
Counterpart copy of 1899 lease of house at the West corner of Fawley Rd & Honeybourne Rd (ref 1/237)  *£6.00  Not for export
Counterpart copy of 1900 lease of house at the East corner of Fawley Rd & Honeybourne Rd (ref 1/238)  *£6.00  Not for export
1900 lease & counterpart of the house at the West corner of Fawley Road & Crediton Road (ref 1/239)  *£9.00  Not for export
Most of the above include a site plan, and apart from the last 4 items the counting of the houses includes the one on the corner.

Westminster Memories in Verse & Picture
Rev Adam Fox, 16pp pamphlet, nd but is surely from the 1910s, 14 sepia photo-ills.  Remarkably good condition, VG.  (ref 210/54)  *£3.00

[Westminster - Houses of Parliament]  Mid-Victorian Masterpiece
Sir Barnett Cocks, 1977.  Large 8vo, 208pp inc index, 25 ills inc many photos.  Subtitled 'The story of an institution unable to put its own house in order', this account of one of London's most famous buildings and the interference and ignorance of the people who work there sadly comes as no surprise - but it is intertwined with much historical detail by the author, who had worked there for 43 years, retiring in 1973 as Clerk of the House of Commons.  VG in VG though slightly torn d/w.  (ref 525/12)  £10.00

[Westminster document]  Counterpart copy of Lease of The Chequers, Duke Street
This is the counterpart copy (ie signed by the lessees, Wandsworth brewers Charles Florance Young and Herbert Gledinning Bainbridge) of a 21 year lease of   'All that messuage or tenement called or known by the name or sign of The Chequers public house situate and being in Duke Street in the parish of St James Westminster.....'.   Closely worded manuscript on single large parchment sheet making it highly suitable for framing.  (ref 120/51)  *£15.00  Not for export

[Westminster documents]  Various Documents relating to Mason's Yard, Duke Street
Evidently Mason's Yard takes it's name from the family of that name who were involved with the property throughout the 18th century.  On offer here is a collection of 6 various documents as follows:
1.  An abstract of title drawn up c1817 which provides details of property deeds etc going back to 1739.
2. The counterpart copy of an 1821 lease of a coach-house and stables.
3. The counterpart copy of a 1905 lease of No's 9, 9A, 11 and 12 (all of them stables/workshops).  This document bears a useful plan showing the layout of No's 9 and 9A.
4. A 1906 licence to make alterations to No 9.
5. A 1912 licence to assign a lease of No's 9 and 9A.
6.  The carbon copy of a typescript notice concerning No's 9 and 9A.
The collection (ref 120/54)  *£22.50  Not for export

Historical Records of the County of Middlesex - Catalogue of Exhibition of Documents etc
Middlesex Standing Joint Committee, 1949.  26pp booklet in pale green card covers.  The booklet doesn't say what the occasion was, but the 72 items were on display at the Guildhall, the then Middlesex Record Office.  Ex-Glamorgan Record Officce Library, their stamp on title-page.  G.  (ref 252/118)  *£2.00

Middlesex
C W Radcliffe, 1939.  4to, 240pp inc index, red cloth boards, gilt lettering, lining & crest.  Published to celebrate the golden jubilee of the County Council.  Although a general county book and understandably featuring heavily on such aspects as county services careers and professions, its a good introduction to the county. As copies go, VG.  (ref 210/18)  £6.00

Middlesex
C W Radcliffe, nd but perhaps 1952 'new ed'.  4to, 240pp inc index, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, lining & crest.  A very much updated edition of the book produced in 1939 to celebrate the golden jubliee of Middlesex County Council.   Although a general county book and understandably featuring heavily on such aspects as county services careers and professions, its a good introduction to the county. Clean inside but the spine has faded to a disappointing shade of grey, G.  (ref 210/20)   £7.00

NB the few documents listed amongst the books above are just a small selection from our stock of perhaps 15,000 items covering much of Britain - many of which relate either to Middlesex people or Middlesex property.   Email the names or locations you are researching and we'll provide details of anything we have that might link up.