11.10 South Hornsey Local Board of Health/Urban District Council Records

Board of Health/U.D.C

HOR

Minutes 1865-1900; Minutes of Joint Representation Committee 1900-01; Minutes of Committee of whole Board/ Council 1887-1900; monthly reports of surveyors 1890-1900; regulations and list of officers duties, 1876; letter re bad condition of Green Lanes, 1900

Electoral register

, 1879 HOR/CE

Surveyor's records

List and description of boundary posts, 1888 HOR/E 1

Deposited building plans c1866-1900 HOR/E 2

Treasurer's records

HOR/FT

Ledgers 1867-1900; financial statements 1881-83; 1890-1900 rate notices c1880-97

General Purposes Committee

HOR/G

Minutes (including Committee of the whole Board, Electoral

Division Committee, Hospital, Library, Parliamentary Committees) 1867-1900

Hornsey Parish. Inspectors for Lighting Albert Town, and P/HOR/L later Stoke Newington District. Minutes 1854-65

Libraries records

HOR/M

Finsbury Park Free Public Library Committee minutes 1891-98; annual reports, rules, catalogue, posters, programmes and press cuttings 1892-99. Library Committee minutes 1898-1900; Librarian's monthly reports 1989-1901

11.10 South Hornsey Local Board of Health/Urban District

Medical Officer of Health Reports 1898-1900 HOR/P

11.11 Stoke Newington Metropolitan Borough

Note: Some later records for Stoke Newington MB have been received as part of LB Hackney series and are included in that section of the Guide.

Council SN/C; SN/CDY

Council agendas and minutes 1900-65; Annual reports 1900-38 officers' reports (as separate series 1934-53; programmes of ceremonies of admission of freemen 1945-63; declarations of interests of councillors 1922-28, 1934-64; council diaries and yearbooks 1919-65

Town Clerk's Department

SN/CC; SN/CR

Standing Orders 1936-36( ); inquiry into the housing department 1954-57; souvenir of housing estate openings 1930-37; copies of orders concerning boundary alterations and agreements with other authorities concerning buildings, staffing etc 1907-42; register of bankruptcies of contractors 1931-63; register of those deferred from call up 1942-43; council byelaws 1900-47; councillor attendance at meetings 1897-1907, 1939-44; contract ledgers 1901-04, 1935-43 and contract correspondence 1953-62; property records (land owned by council, rights of way, faculty for a mortuary and Ministry of Health consents for land acquisition for housing) 1806-1939; plans of Hewling Street housing scheme 1937-38; register of acquired properties 1954-64; advances made to home owners 1954-64; report on lighting 1902

Mayor

SN/CM

Alexandra Day 1914 Committee minutes 1914-16; flat day files 1915-18; Mayor's Unemployment Fund cash book and correspondence 1921-22; mayoral correspondence files 1949-65 (gaps; files closed for 30 years from last date); testimonials presented to H.J.Ormond 1902-19.

Electoral registers

1901-39; 1945-65 SN/CE

Jury lists 1900-21 SN/CE

Election posters

, campaign material etc 1900-37 SN/CEP

List of streets c1920-1961.

Air Raid Precautions/Civil Defence Committee SN/A

Committee minutes 1938-65 (with gaps where business was conducted in Emergency Committee. In the period 1935-38 minutes are in Special Committees, for which see below) Invasion scheme details, operational orders (London District 4 Home guard, 1942-44; incident and warden post map, 1940-45; registers of properties and staff 1939-47; civilian war dead 1940-44; registers and correspondence; history of civil defence c1948; incident list 1940-45; controllers' handbook 1939; circulars from Stoke Newington MB and Central Government 1940-42; report on house damage, 1943; map showing ARP posts etc and incidents 1940-5; material and telephone accounts 1944-65. Public Baths Committee (earlier Baths and Washhouses SN/B Committee)

Committee minutes 1933-40; 1944-46; 1947-65 (for 1940-46 see Emergency Committee); annual reports of Bath

Superintendent 1957-61; programme for opening of Clissold Rd swimming pool, 1930.

Electricity Committee

SN/D

Committee minutes 1904-40; 1944-48 (Minutes 1902-04 in Special Committee minutes; for 1940-44 see Emergency Committee); accounts 1919-48

Highways and Sewers Committee

(began as General Purposes) SN/E

Committee minutes 1900-40, 1944-65 (for 1940-44 see Emergency Committee

Engineer and Surveyor's Department

SN/EB; SN/EB/B SN/EB/D;

Street trading record 1939-60; air raid precaution SN/EBP administration files 1937-45 (including staff training, repairs, organisation of civilian death squads and debris clearance); plans of Church Street improvement, 1902; Green Lane widening, 1910-25 and improvements to Manor Road 1957; general files series (including premises, street improvement, lighting, tramways, arrangements concerning Eade Road - traffic and prostitution etc; Clissold Road Swimming Baths; Wordsworth Road street market; relief of unemployment 1928-9; and council horses) 1912-40; deposited tramway plans 1920-29; plans of Assembly Hall, Milton Road Town Hall and Edwards Lane Electricity Sub-Station, Londesborough Rd housing scheme, Milton Grove laundry, proposed boys’ institute Clissold Rd and Municipal Buildings, Church Street 1881-1962; Lordship road housing scheme specification, 1933 & 1939; boundary plans 1900 and for Clissold Park area 1889.

Direct Labour Force Committee

SN/ED

Minutes 1963

Town Planning Committee

SN/ET

Minutes 1946-52 (1945 in Housing committee, from 1952 in Highways and Town Planning Committee

Works and Building Committee

SN/EW

Minutes 1953-65

Emergency Committee

SN/EMER

Minutes 1939-44 (including sub-committee minutes for Fire Prevention, Shelters, Public Health and Salvage, Public Libraries and Maternity and Child Welfare, Highways, Town Planning and Baths and Washhouses, Establishment and General Purposes, Electricity, Rents and Housing

Finance Committee/Treasurer's Department

SN/F;SN/FA

SN/FZ

Minutes 1899-1965 (For 1940-44 see Emergency Committee); financial statements and abstracts of accounts 1900-29, 1933-65; rate and other ledgers 1898-1937 (gaps); war loan and damage records 1917-18; 1940-48; capital expenditure and special reports (mostly housing) 1964; office diary of officer working on electricity accounts, 1937.

Assessment Committee

SN/FA 3

Minutes 1930-35

Rating & Valuation Committee/Treasurer's Department

SN/FV; SN/FVR

Minutes 1908-47 (For 1940-44 see Emergency Committee); valuation lists, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930; rate books 1900-64

General Purposes Committee

SN/G

Minutes 1901-65 (including sub committees; some war time minutes in Emergency Committee). For minutes prior to 1901 see Highways and Sewers Committee

Council and Staff Advisory Joint Committee

SN/GJS

Minutes 1923-63

Establishment Committee

SN/CQ

Minutes 1937-65 (including sub-committees; for war time period see Emergency Committee)

Housing Committee

SN/H

Minutes 1933-65 (including sub-committees. For 1930-33 see Special Committee; for war time period see Emergency Committee) elevation of Green Lanes estate, c1950

London Government Re-organisation Committee

SN/KR

Minutes 1958-64; evidence submitted by SNBC to the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, 1959.

Library Commissioners, later Public Library Committee

SN/L

Minutes 1898-1933, 1945-65; Lecture Sub-Committee 1937-51; Books Sub-Committee 1899-1945; Finance Sub-Committee 1901-20; House Sub-Committee 1901-39; Children's Sub-Committee 1904-05 and Special Sub-Committees 1908-03( ); 1948-65; reports of Borough Librarian 1900-15,1923-4, 1929-36 1938-9, 1942-64.

Public Libraries

SN/LD; SN/LDB SN/LDC; SN/LDM

Donations records, programme of events' exhibition records; hire of library premises to the public 1904-63; accession records (local history library)c1950-80; Food Control Provisional scheme (1939); specifications and plans of library premises (1891-1948); administration records of the Chalmers Bequest (1930-63); reports and correspondence on use of Clissold House as a museum (1902-13);library administration records 1904-64; correspondence on the construction of Howard, Brownswood and Woodberry Down libraries 1945-65; correspondence on and with various local societies and the Stoke Newington Arts Council 1952-70; income and extracted minutes re Alderman Eve’s bequest 1904-64; exhibition correspondence c1950-64.

Public Libraries: Collected Records

SN/LW

Cuttings and miscellaneous records concerning the Vacant Lands Cultivation Society, Stoke Newington Food Control Committee, air raids, the Voluntary Munitions Scheme, ambulances and hospitals, Tank Days, Stoke Newington Day Nursery, Stoke Newington Food Control Committee, and peace celebrations, 1915-19. Also programmes of various visits by dignitaries 1928-37. Library cuttings book series 1889-1900;1907-60 SN/LDN

Maternity and Child Welfare Committee

SN/M

Minutes 1922-40, 1944-48 (For 1940-44 see Emergency Committee)

Public Health Committee

SN/P

Minutes 1899-1940, 1944-65 (For 1940-44 see Emergency Committee); annual reports of Medical Officer of Health 1894-1963

Public Health Department

SN/PD

Inspectors' report books 1895-1927; registers of food etc samples 1894-1905, 1951-54; registers of shop etc inspections 1935-65; register of milk samples 1949-54; registers of tuberculosis cases 1919-65 (closed for production); files on numbers of persons sleeping in houses (H-K only), 1935-55; applications for rehousing by tenants on grounds of health or overcrowding 1946-51.

Special Committees

SN/S

Minutes of the following committees: Special Coronation 1902; King's dinner to the Poor, 1902; Electric Lighting 1902-04; Charities 1904; Electric Lighting and Public Health committee 1907; Finance, Rating and Valuation 1911; General Purposes and Highways and Sewers 1913; London Government 1922; Street Trading 1927-28; Swimming Bath, 1927-33; Town Hall Accommodation 1929-31; Purchase of Property for Street Improvement 1930-32; Ray Report on Local Expenditure 1933; Housing, 1930-33; Air Raid Precautions 1935-38; 166-180 Church Street (Town Hall site) 1932-34; Council in Committee, 1948-53; War Memorial (with correspondence) 1919-21; Runtz Memorial Committee, 1909.

11.11 Stoke Newington Metropolitan Borough

Town Hall Committee

SN/T

Reports to Council 1936-38

War Memorial Committee

SN/W, SN/ZD

Unofficial Committees

SN/Z

Stoke Newington National Reserve Committee minutes 1919-21; National Registration and Recruiting Committee minutes 1915; Conference of local authorities on proposed extension of tube from Finsbury Park to Southgate, 1930; Stoke Newington Old People's Welfare Committee minutes 1948-57, annual reports 1954-64 (gaps); Stoke Newington War Savings Association minutes 1916-21; report on work, 1917; Stoke Newington Gun Day Committee minutes 1918; Stoke Newington War Remembrance League Working Party minutes 1915-31; proceedings of a conference between Albion Grove Institute, the Stoke Newington United Services Fund Welfare Committee and ex-servicemen, 1921; log book of operations conducted by bomber funded by Stoke Newington War Savings Committee, 1944.

11.12 London Borough of Hackney

Records are still in the course of transfer from department of the Council. All committee minutes prior to 1982 are closed for thirty years from the last date in each volume, except for the housing committee, which has a 25 year closure; after that date copies of minutes without the confidential presented papers are open for inspection.

Departmental records are also closed for thirty years.

1. Council and Committees

Council minutes 1964 to date LBH/CA

Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington Advisory Committee LBH/CAA minutes and presented papers 1963-64

Establishment, later Administration Committee

LBH/A

Minutes 1964-81

1. Council and Committees

Staffing and Equal Opportunities Committe

e LBH/AS

Minutes 1982-90

Equal Opportunities Panel later Equal Opportunities Sub

LBH/ASP

Committee

Minutes 1979-83

Baths Committee

LBH/B

Minutes 1964-68

Planning and Development Committee

LBH/D

Minutes 1964-68

Highways and Works, later Planning and Highways Committee

LBH/E

Minutes 1964-82

Planning and Transport Committee

LBH/E

Minutes 1982 -88

Planning and Economic Development Committee

LBH/E

Minutes 1988-89

Planning Applications Sub-Committee

LBH/EA & EB

Minutes 1983-89

Land and Property Sub-Committee

LBH/EL

Minutes 1983-7 (gaps)

Economic & Environmental Projects Sub-Committee

LBH/EN

Minutes 1984-89 (gaps)

Street Trading and Licencing Sub Committee

LBH/ES

Minutes 1982-66

1. Council and Committees

Finance Committee

LBH/F

Minutes 1964-82

Policy Committee

LBH/FP

Minutes 1971-81

Policy and Resources Committee

LBH/FR

Minutes 1982-86

Scrutiny Sub Committee (of Finance Committee)

LBH/FSC

Minutes 1970-71

Expenditure Scrutiny Sub Committee

LBH/FRE

Minutes Jan- March 1989

General Purposes Committee

LBH/GP

Minutes 1965-67

Housing Committee

LB/H

Minutes 1964-71

Housing Development Committee

LBH/HD

Minutes 1971-82

Housing Development Advisory Committee

LBH/HDA

Minutes 1967-68

Housing Management Committee

LBH/HM

Minutes 1971-82

Special Housing Rent Arrears Committee

LBH/HR

Minutes 1974-82

Housing Services Committee

LBH/HS

Minutes 1982-88 (gaps)

11.12 London Borough of Hackney

1. Council and Committees

Housing Arrears Sub-Committee LBH/HSA 1

Minutes 1982-4, 1988-9

Community Panel Housing Race Relations Sub-Committee

LBH/HSA 2

Minutes 1983-84

Housing Tender Sub-Committee

LBH/HSA|3

Minutes 1986-87

Housing Capital Programme Sub-Committee

LBH/HSA 4

Minutes 1986-87

Housing District Committee No 1 Stoke Newington

LBH/HSD 1

Minutes 1982-84, 1987-89

Housing District Committee No 2 Stamford Hill & Upper Clapton

LBH/HSD 2

Minutes 1982-4, 1988-90

Housing District Committee No 3 Lower Clapton

LBH/HSD 3

Minutes 1982-84

Housing District Sub-Committee No 4 South Hackney

LBH/HSD 4

Minutes 1982-84

Housing District Sub-Committee No 5 Dalston

LBH/HSD 5

Minutes 1982-4

Housing District Sub-Committee No 6 Shoreditch

LBH/HSD 6

Minutes 1983-84

Civil Defence Committee

LBH/J

Minutes 1965-68

Libraries Committee, later Libraries and Amenity Committe

e LBH/L

Minutes 1964-81 (gaps)

11.12 London Borough of Hackney

1. Council and Committees

Arts and Entertainments Sub Committee

LBH/LA

Minutes 1980-86

Leisure Services Committee

LBH/LS

Minutes 1980-88 (gaps)

Community Development Committee, later Community

LBH/LSC

Services Committee

Minutes 1987-91 (gaps)

Twinning Advisory Committee

LBH/LT

Minutes 1982-86

Environmental Strategy Sub-Committee

LBH/NE 1

Minutes 1989

Enterprise Support Sub-Committee

LBH/NE 2

Minutes 1898-90

Health Committee, later Health and Consumer Protection

LBH/P

Committee

Minutes 1964-89

LBH/PH

Minutes 1980-81

Public Services Committe

e LBH/R

Minutes 1982-88 (gaps)

Refuse Collection, Street Cleansing and Public Conveniences

LBH/RC

Sub Committee

Minutes 1982-85

11.12 London Borough of Hackney

1. Council and Committees

Contract Services and Building Works Division Manpower

LBH/RE 1

Sub-Committee

Minutes 1980-81

Engineering and Direct Labour Organisation Sub-Committee

LBH/RE 2

Minutes 1982-85

Partnership Sub-Committee

LBH/RE 3

Minutes 1983-85

Building and Direct Labour Organisation Sub-Committee

LBH/RE 4

Minutes 1982-88 (gaps)

Welfare, later Social Services Committee

LBH/S

Minutes 1964-78

Children's Committee

LBS/SC

Minutes 1964-70

Hutton Poplars Management & Nursery and Small Homes

LBH/SH

Management Committee

Minutes 1965-69

Twinning Advisory Committee

LBH/TW

Minutes 1969-78

Police Committee

LBH/V

Minutes 1982-85

Safety Advisory & Accident Prevention Committees

LBH/W

Minutes 1965-66

Women’s Committe

e LBH/X

Minutes 1987-88

11.12 London Borough of Hackney

1. Council and Committees

Special Hackney Economic Development Committee

LBH/Y

Minutes 1977-78

Haggerston Park Joint Management Committee

LBH/YH

Minutes 1983-86

Joint Consultative Committee on Play Provision

LBH/YP

Minutes 1980-86

Spring Hill Sports Group Joint Management Committee

LBH/YS

Minutes 1980-85

Hackney Citizens Liaison Council, later the Hackney Community

LBH/Z

Relations Council

Minutes 1965-67

Background papers on immigration and on the formation of the Hackney Coloured Citizens, 1965

Council and Staff Joint Committee

LBH/ZS

Minutes and selected presented papers 1969-78

2. COUNCIL DEPARTMENT AND DIRECTORATE RECORDS

These series include transfers of record series that preceded the formation of LB Hackney, but which either cover several constituent authorities or form part of a series still current at the time of transfer. All records are closed for thirty years from the last date given, unless special closure periods are noted.

11.12 London Borough of Hackney

2. Council Departments and Directorate Records

Borough Solicitor/Legal Services

LBH/C; LBH/14

Assignment of badge and coat of arms and artwork 1964-69; twinning agreement with Landkreis Gottingen, 1973; Hornsey Parochial Charities, copy minutes and reports etc 1894-1979 Title deeds of properties purchased by the LB Hackney and its constituents. 17th-20thCCs. Cataloguing in progress

Town Clerk

LBH/12

Report on charities, 1966

Committee Secretariat

LBH/13

Jubilee street parties; correspondence 1977

Electoral Registration

LBH/CE

Electoral registers 1965 to date (open)

Press and Public Relations

LBH/15

Video tapes commissioned by LB Hackney or taken from press coverage of Hackney matters c1983-87

Medical Officer of Health

LBH/18

Annual and other reports 1964-73; photographs of John Scott Health Centre, 1967

Environmental Health

LBH/18

Closure orders on twelve properties 1933-72

Treasurer's Department, later Directorate of Finance

LBH/3; LBH/FR

General rates 1966-68; annual revenue estimates and abstracts of accounts 1971 to date; payroll details 1976-79; rent accounts 1975-77

11.12 London Borough of Hackney

2. Council Departments and Directorate Records

Architects Department

Plans of the De Beauvoir Town council estate, including the LBH 5/4 Rose Lipman Library 1968-73

Holiday homes at Bognor Regis & St Leonards on Sea LBH 5/3 plans and correspondence 1962-70

Plans of non-housing council property: Barton House LBH/5/5 Clinic, 1968, Gainsborough Rd laundry 1934-65, Shoreditch Town Hall Community Centre, 1978, Haggerston Park One 0'Clock Club, 1972, Territorial Army Centre, Hilman St, 1976-7, Englefield Rd Baths, 1966, Central Hall, Mare St, 1979, Central Transport workshop, De Beauvoir Rd, 1976, plan of housing programme, c1967 and various estate laundry plans 1974-5.

Comprehensive Housing Directorate (and predecessors)

Provisional fair rent assessment (by house and street)

1973 LBH 4/20

Directorate of Planning and Development

Cluster date and survey material 1972-84. Restricted access LBH 5 Map of census enumeration districts, 1961; tree survey LB Hackney, 1979. Register of drawings c1986; proposals for Mare St Town Hall site, 1990; archaeological sites and zoning plans, c1975.

Social Services Directorate

Sample case files c1950-82. Closed for 75 years from last LBH 6/2 date of file

Directorate of Technical and Contract Services

Correspondence files (on traffic, parking, bottle bins, LBH 7/2 roads and bridges) 1954-85; plans of Eastway Baths 1977; ward, electricity division, and census enumeration boundaries (Shoreditch and De Beauvoir Town only) 1965-6

Building and drainage plans for Hackney Vestry and LBH 7/5 Metropolitan Borough and whole area of LB Hackney after 1965,1956-1986. Stoke Newington drainage plans 1856-94 Note: Applications for Stoke Newington 1894-1965 and Shoreditch 1856-1965 are still held by the Drainage section. The series held by the Archives Department has been microfilmed Applications for South Hornsey c1866-1900 listed with South Hornsey records.

Applications for new streets and street projections. LBH 7/6 Hackney Board of Works area (including Stoke Newington up to 1894, then Hackney only to 1965, thereafter LB Hackney to end of series in 1971

Library Services

LBH 8/1

Annual reports of borough librarian, 1968-74; plans of library premises (Hackney, Stoke Newington, Shoreditch and LB Hackney), 1892-1978

Arts and Entertainment Services

LBH 8/3

Records of paintings used in John Varley exhibition, 1978

Baths Section

LBH 8/3/1

Annual reports of the Baths and Civic Recreation Department 1966-74

Parks and Open Spaces Service

LBH 8/3/2-15

Plans of park premises 1898-1979 (in course of listing) Includes holiday homes

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