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London Metropolitan Archives

CLERK'S (LEGAL) DEPARTMENT: ESTATES AND HOUSING


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): MCC/CL/L/EH

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CLERK'S (LEGAL) DEPARTMENT: ESTATES AND HOUSING

Date(s): 1889-1965

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 46.54 linear metres

Name of creator(s): MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The County Council acquired over the years large areas of land and many buildings, in order to carry out its statutory functions, and the responsibility for these properties fell to the Estates and Valuation service. The types of property acquired or leased have covered the widest possible range and included houses, shops, commercial premises, sports grounds, country estates and land for schools and highways improvements.

Management of all properties acquired until brought into use for operational purposes was a major responsibility, as instanced by the Green Belt estates extending to some 10,000 acres and comprising farm holdings, country estates, and golf courses acquired to prevent development, thus preserving the amenities of the countryside.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to estates and housing, 1889-1965, including papers relating to acquisition and tenancies, including plans, deeds and correspondence; papers relating to leases and sales, including maintenance, tenancies and restriction of ribbon development; papers relating to the conversion of land for the production of food during the Second World War; index cards to properties owned by the MCC; register of applications for contributions towards the acquisition of open spaces; register of applications for acquisition of lands, and correspondence and reports relating to Northwick Park, Wembley.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

MCC/CL/L/EH/01: Acquisitions; MCC/CL/L/EH/02: Leases and sales; MCC/CL/L/EH/03: Miscellaneous; MCC/CL/L/EH/05-06: Index cards to MCC property.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

See also MCC/CL/EH (Clerk's Department Estates and Housing).

Publication note:

For further information on the history of the Middlesex County Council please see Middlesex by Sir Clifford Radcliffe (2 editions, 1939 and 1953), LMA Library reference 97.09 MID; and The County Council of the Administrative County of Middlesex: 76 years of local government, 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1965, by Middlesex County Council (1965), LMA library reference S97.09 MID.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Building leases | Legal documents | Law
Building maintenance | Building operations | Construction engineering
Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Local government | Public administration | Government
Plans | Visual materials
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Tenants | People by roles | People
Property law x Right to property
Land
Open spaces
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Clerk's Department | Middlesex County Council
Estates and Valuation Department | Middlesex County Council x Valuation Department
MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council

Places
Wembley | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Brent