11.5 Shoreditch Civil Parish Records
Vestry
P/L
Minutes 1727-1853; churchwardens accounts 1925, 1829-55; table of burial fees, 1664 and c1738; abstract of census data, 1831; meetings of churchwardens, overseers and rate-papers minutes 1859-85, 1829-1900; voters lists 1843, 1845
Commissioners of Pavements P/L/A
Minutes 1840-46; contract papers 1842-46
Burial Board
P/L/B
Minutes 1855-72, 1891-1896; reports of committees etc 1855-58; notices of meetings 1855-57; transcript of monumental inscriptions c1742-1857; financial records 1855-59; orders in Council, correspondence and membership and records of Board 1855-60; burial records 1856-59.
Charity Trustees
P/L/C
Order books of trustees of Cranston's Charity 1764-1879; dividend book 1764-1816; Charity Trustees minutes 1858-1938; Shoreditch New Almshouse Managing Committee minutes 1901-52; Ashford and Moore's Charity Trustees minutes 1868-70; notices of meetings, byelaws, voting figures 1858-1913; lists of Shoreditch Council nominees to the United Charities 1921-32; records of administration of property 1843-1967; correspondence 1858-1943; administration of Exhibition Fund: governors' minutes 1888-1909; other records c1820--1952; Charity Commissioners correspondence, altered proposals for schemes etc 1859-c1966; administration of almshouses (reports, plans, applications for admission etc) 1840-1938; lists of benefactions 1745-1911; administration of pensions c1880-1905; administration of soup kitchens reports etc 1872-1920; accounts and other financial records 1859-1956.
Charity Schools
P/L/CS
Minutes of Boys and Girls Schools 1705-1888; minutes of Committee for Building the New Schools 1801-03; lists of subscribers and admissions 1828-1881; financial records (accounts and reports) 1705-1898; annual reports 1838-75; (gaps)
Commissioners of Land Tax, Tower Division
P/L/LT
Shoreditch land tax assessment ledgers 1744-1812, 1815-26, 1926-36. (See also Section 26)
Trustees of the Poor, later Board of Guardians
P/L/P
Account of rents, 1817-28; abstracts of accounts 1818-19, 1831-36, 1858, 1860-72 (gaps); list of Guardians, 1836; Workhouse meat supplies 1825-26; casual relief list 1843; list of Trustees, 1856; records concerning nature and membership of the Board 1864-67; contract to farm the poor 1828 Cottage Homes, Hornchurch: report of Visiting Committee 1891-92, Home Magazine, 1922
Four Rates Board
P/L/R
Minutes 1778-1851; ratebooks 1807-10; 1819-48; watchmen's books (names of watchmen) 1825-30; report books 1828-30; ledgers 1823-59; letterbook 1852-55; Finance Committee report 1825
11.6 Shoreditch Vestry
Vestry L/V
Minutes 1855-1900; reports and accounts 1856-1900; byelaws 1893, 1899; reports and correspondence (appeals against rates, property acquisition, valuation etc), 1862-91; map of the parish with ward divisions 1855; opening programmes of vestry premises 1893-98
Vestry Clerk L/V/C
Correspondence 1856-1901; Town Hall lettings 1878-1901; jury list and exemptions 1893-98; Moria Place scheme correspondence 1892-99; documents concerning disorderly houses c1893-94; petition concerning vaccination, 1877; brief for land compensation 1900.
Vestry Clerk: administration of electoral registers and voting
L/V/CE
Minutes of Vestry elections and poll books of such elections 1857-1901; Voters' registers 1897-1900
Baths and Wash-houses Committee, later Commissioners
L/B
Minutes and reports 1852-57, 1887-99, correspondence 1854-56, 1894-97; records of construction 1895-97
Lighting Cleansing and Paving Committee/Sewers Committee
L/C (and other titles including these functions)
Lighting Cleansing and Paving Committee minutes 1856-61; Sewers Committee minutes 1856-61; Sewers Buildings, Lighting, Cleansing and Paving Committee minutes 1861-85; Paving Committee minutes 1885-93; Paving and Sewers Committee minutes 1893-97; Works Committee minutes 1897-190. Surveyors report book 1856; sewer accounts 1859-66; 1891-96; fire engineer's report book 1866; paving correspondence 1891-93; pavement contracts 1892-94
Dusting and Scavenging Committee/ Lighting and Scavenging Committee
L/D
Minutes, reports and accounts 1891-1900
Finance Committee
L/F
Minutes 1856-1900; correspondence of Department 1899-1900
Poor and churchyard rate books, later poor and general rate books 1844-1900; Highway ratebook 1851. L/F
Assessment Committee
L/F/A
Minutes 1863-1900; accounts street lists and appeals etc 1885-99
Valuation Committee
L/F/A
Minutes 1870-1900; accounts 1891-96
General Purposes and Sanitary Committee
L/G
Minutes 1857-1900; Medical Officer of Health and other reports 1857, 1887-88, 1893-1900 (other MoH reports are in the vestry annual reports)
Housing of the Working Classes Committee
L/H
Minutes 1891-1900; reports and accounts 1892-96
Parliamentary (and Improvement) Committee
L/K
Minutes 1867-86, 1891-1900; accounts and correspondence 1891-1900
Electrical Lighting Committee
L/L
Minutes 1893-1900. Other records are under Special Committees
Public Library Commissioners, later Committee
L/M
Minutes 1891-1900; other records, including petition, letters, plans etc concerning construction, 1891-1900
Technical Instruction Committee
L/R
Minutes 1892-96; annual report of Shoreditch Municipal Technical school, 1893-94
Special Committees
L/S
Minutes 1871-1900 (on dusting and scavenging, local acts, health matters, settlement and removal, paving, school board, premises, bridges, street accidents accounts, baths and libraries, rates, the unemployed, housing, staffing, drought and insurance)
Town Hall Committee (including Furnishing Committee)
L/T
Minutes 1863-1900; reports and correspondence etc. 1865-68, 1891-95
11.7 Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council
Note: Many Shoreditch MBC records still await listing.
Some series are included in LB Hackney series.
Council
S/C
Minutes 1900-65; annual reports 1900-37
Town Clerk
Letterbooks 1902-47 (sample only) S/CC
Electoral registers 1900-65 S/CE
Mayors S/CM
Correspondence 1914, 1920-33
Civil Defence Committee
S/A
Minutes missing. Records (staff, premises and civilian war deaths) 1936-53
Baths Committee
S/B
Minutes 1900-53, 1962-65 (for war period minutes in Finance and General Purposes Committee). Specification for Shoreditch Baths, 1899; bills of quantity for the repair of Hoxton baths and libraries, 1952
Electricity Committee (earlier Lighting Committee)
S/D
Minutes 1900-48; annual report of Electrical Engineer, 1946-47
Cleansing and Transport Committee (previously Scavenging)
S/EC
Minutes 1900-02, 1948-65
Highway and Works Committee
(earlier Works Committee alone) S/EH; S/EW. Minutes 1900-58 (including sub-committees)
Engineer and Surveyor's Department
S/E; S/E/D S/EP
Applications for market stalls c1928-32; street list c1957 (sewer details); tramway plans 1908, 1927; plans of Shoreditch Town Hall, 1901-57 , Haggerston Baths and Whiston Street electricity generating station 1901-02; housing area plans (including Moira and Plumber’s Place and East Road areas 1910-12; Fellows and St Johns estates 1959-65); road closure plans 1948-57; plan of proposed estates north of Regent’s Canal, c1960.
Finance Committee
S/F. Minutes 1901-63 (gaps); abstracts of accounts 1900-162 (gaps)
Assessment Committee
S/FA. Minutes 1901-49
Finance and Housing Joint Committee
S/FH
Minutes 1920-21
Treasurer's Department
S/FR; S/FRR
Rate books 1902-65; rough rate book series 1904, 1914-62
Petty Sessional Courts and Justices (rate summons)
S/FRS
Minutes 1907-48
Valuation Committee
S/FV; S/FVR
Minutes 1900-50; register of local land charges 1925; property assessment registers 1900-30
Establishment later General Purposes Committee
S/G (earlier Law and Establishment Committee)
Minutes 1900-65 (includes Town Hall Building Sub Committee 1905-06)
Staffing Committees
(various titles) S/GJ
Minutes 1920-27, 1935-64
Housing Committee
S/H
Minutes (including sub committees) 1900-64
Reconstruction Committee
S/HR
Minutes 1941-48
Law and Parliamentary Committee
S/K
Minutes 1929-39
Public Libraries Committee
S/L; S/LD
Minutes 1900-65; librarian's annual reports 1892-1964; other records (organisational, catalogues, correspondence, newsletters, staffing and reports) 1900-65; cuttings collection 1892-1965
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
S/M
Minutes 1920-48
Welfare Committee
S/N
Minutes 1947-65
Public Health Committee
S/P
Minutes 1900-65 (gaps); annual report of the Medical Office of Health 1901-63 Charity Committee S/Q
Minutes 1901-09
Special Committees
S/S
Minutes (joint committees, emergency, finance) 1900-33
Bethnal Green and Shoreditch Teal Street Improvement Joint S/Z 1 Committee
Minutes 1907-11
Shoreditch Distress Committee
S/Z 2
Minutes 1914-15; annual reports 1906-10 (gaps)
Committee for Acquiring the Ironmongers
(Almshouses and S/Z 3 Garden)
Minutes and papers 1910-14
Shoreditch Local Profiteering Committee
S/Z 4
Minutes 1919-21
Shoreditch Carnival Committee (later Shoreditch Association)
S/Z 5
Minutes 1958-59
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