Middlesex Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

From FamilySearch Wiki
VisualWikitext
m (Undo revision 5253118 by Hanna5974 (talk))
Tag: Undo
Line 101: Line 101:


:The Geffrye explores the home and the way people live. Our collections show how homes have been used and furnished over the past 400 years, reflecting changes in society and behaviour as well as style, fashion and taste. A series of period rooms lead visitors on a walk through time from 17th century oak furniture and panelling, past muted Georgian elegance and eclectic Victorian style, to 20th century modernity and contemporary living.
:The Geffrye explores the home and the way people live. Our collections show how homes have been used and furnished over the past 400 years, reflecting changes in society and behaviour as well as style, fashion and taste. A series of period rooms lead visitors on a walk through time from 17th century oak furniture and panelling, past muted Georgian elegance and eclectic Victorian style, to 20th century modernity and contemporary living.
=== Gunnersbury Park Museum ===


'''Gunnersbury Park Museum'''<br>Gunnersbury Park<br>Popes Ln<br>London W3 8LQ UK<br>Telephone: 20 8992 1612<br>Email: [mailto:gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk]<br>Website [http://www.hounslow.info/arts-culture/historic-houses-museums/gunnersbury-park-museum Gunnersbury Park Museum]
'''Gunnersbury Park Museum'''<br>Gunnersbury Park<br>Popes Ln<br>London W3 8LQ UK<br>Telephone: 20 8992 1612<br>Email: [mailto:gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk]<br>Website [http://www.hounslow.info/arts-culture/historic-houses-museums/gunnersbury-park-museum Gunnersbury Park Museum]

Revision as of 10:57, 22 February 2023

Middlesex Wiki Topics
File:Flag_of_Middlesex.png
Beginning Research
Record Types
Middlesex Background
Local Research Resources

Archives[edit | edit source]

London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
City of London EC1R 0HB UK

Telephone: 020 7332 3820
E-mail: ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Website
Family History at London Metropolitan Archives
Parish Registers at London Metropolitan Archives (Information on history, content, etc.)
Index to church parishes in London

  • Our Anglican parish records cover the ancient City of London and the old Counties of London and Middlesex. These are areas that were considered a part of London prior to 1965 and in terms of modern local London Boroughs include the following, Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, parts of Richmond Upon Thames (north of the River Thames), Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster.

New London Boroughs formed from ancient county of Middlesex[1][edit | edit source]

Eighteen of London County Council Metropolitan Boroughs were part of the ancient county of Middlesex. In 1965 these merged to form seven of the twelve current boroughs of Inner London.

  • Camden was formed from the metropolitan boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras.
  • Hackney was formed from the metropolitan boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington.
  • Hammersmith (known as Hammersmith and Fulham from 1979) was formed from the metropolitan boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham.
  • Hammersmith & Fulham Archives and Local Studies
    Hammersmith Library
    Shepherds Bush Road
    Hammersmith, London W6 7AT UK

    Telephone: 020 8753 3850
    Email: archives@lbhf.gov.uk
    Website
    Catalogue
  • Islington was formed from the metropolitan boroughs of Finsbury and Islington.
  • Kensington and Chelsea was formed from the metropolitan boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington.
  • Tower Hamlets was formed from the metropolitan boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney.
  • The City of Westminster was formed from the metropolitan boroughs of Paddington and St Marylebone and the City of Westminster.

New London Boroughs from former Middlesex County Council area[edit | edit source]

In April 1965, nearly all of the area of the historic county of Middlesex became part of Greater London, under the control of the Greater London Council, and formed the new outer London boroughs of Barnet (part only), Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames (part only)[2]

  • Hillingdon Local History and Heritage
    Uxbridge Library (Level 6)
    14-15 High Street
    Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 1HD UK

    Telephone: 01895 250702
    Email: archives@hillingdon.gov.uk
    Website

Middlesex Areas transferred to Surrey, Hertfordshire, and Berkshire[edit | edit source]

1. Potters Bar Urban District became part of the administrative county of Hertfordshire.
2. Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District and Staines Urban District became part of the administrative county of Surrey.[3] 3. In 1974, the three urban districts that had been transferred to Hertfordshire and Surrey were abolished and became the districts of Hertsmere (part only) and Spelthorne respectively.[4]
4. In 1995, the village of Poyle was transferred from Spelthorne to the Berkshire borough of Slough.[5] 5. Additionally, the Greater London boundary to the west and north has been subject to several small changes since 1965.[6]

Libraries[edit | edit source]

Libraries in London

Guildhall Library
Aldermanbury
London EC2V 7HH UK
Telephone: 20 7332 1868/1870
Email: guildhall.library@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Website
Family history
Parish registers
Online catalogue

Guildhall Library holds parish records for the ancient city of London.

The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB UK
Telephone: 0843 208 1144
Email: Customer-Services@bl.uk
Website: The British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the second largest library in the world by number of items catalogued. It holds well over 150 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British Library receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the UK.
The British Library is a major research library, with items in many languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC. In addition to receiving a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland (approximately 8,000 per day), the Library has a programme for content acquisitions. The Library adds some three million items every year occupying 9.6 kilometres (6.0 mi) of new shelf space.[7]

Museums[edit | edit source]

Brent Museum[edit | edit source]

Brent Museum
The Library at Willesden Green
95 High Road
Willesden, London NW10 2SF UK
Telephone: 020 8937 3600
Email: museum.archives@brent.gov.uk
Website: Brent Museum

Brent Museum has been collecting material about the history of Brent for over 50 years and we have over 10,000 objects in our collection. We have items which are thousands of years old but we also collect from the people living and working in Brent today so that our collection represent all communities, past and present.

Bruce Castle Museum[edit | edit source]

Bruce Castle Museum
Lordship Lane
Haringey, London N17 8NU UK
Telephone: 020 8808 8772
Email: museum.services@haringey.gov.uk
Website: Bruce Castle Museum

Bruce Castle is now a museum, holding the archives of the London Borough of Haringey, and housing a permanent exhibition on the past, present and future of Haringey and its predecessor boroughs, and temporary displays on the history of the area.

Geffrye Museum[edit | edit source]

Geffrye Museum
136 Kingsland Rd
London E2 8EA UK
Telephone: 20 7739 9893
Email: info@geffrye-museum.org.uk
Website: Geffrye Museum

The Geffrye explores the home and the way people live. Our collections show how homes have been used and furnished over the past 400 years, reflecting changes in society and behaviour as well as style, fashion and taste. A series of period rooms lead visitors on a walk through time from 17th century oak furniture and panelling, past muted Georgian elegance and eclectic Victorian style, to 20th century modernity and contemporary living.

Gunnersbury Park Museum
Gunnersbury Park
Popes Ln
London W3 8LQ UK
Telephone: 20 8992 1612
Email: gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk
Website Gunnersbury Park Museum

The museum was opened in 1929. Since then it has collected a wide range of objects, paintings and photographs which reflect life in Ealing and Hounslow Boroughs from prehistory to the present day. It still continues to collect material to make sure that visitors in the future will be able to see how we lived today.

Hackney Museum[edit | edit source]

Hackney Museum
Technology and Learning Centre (Ground Floor)
1 Reading Lane
Hackney, London E8 1GQ UK
Telephone: 020 8356 3500
Email: hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk
Website: Hackney Museum

Learn about the fascinating stories of people who have moved to Hackney and made it their home, from Anglo-Saxon settlers to early Victorian villas and recent refugees.

Harrow Museum[edit | edit source]

Harrow Museum
Headstone Manor
Pinner View
Harrow, London HA2 6PX UK
Telephone: 020 8863 6720
Email: harrow.museum@harrow.gov.uk
Website: Harrow Museum

The four remarkable buildings which make up Harrow Museum are all located in the beautiful grounds of Headstone Manor, records of which date back to 825AD. All the buildings are listed by English Heritage, and the site as a whole is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Islington Museum[edit | edit source]

Islington Museum
245 St John Street
London EC1V 4NB UK
Telephone: 020 7527 2837
Email: islington.museum@islington.gov.uk
Website: Islington Museum

From free exhibitions, talks and events to vibrant learning programmes, explore Islington's past with us.

Ragged School Museum[edit | edit source]

Ragged School Museum
46-50 Copperfield Road
London E3 4RR UK
Telephone: 20 8980 6405
Email: pauline@raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk
Website: Ragged School Museum

The Ragged School Museum is housed in a group of three canalside buildings which once formed the largest “ragged” or free school in London. The museum was founded to make the history of the Ragged Schools and the broader social history of the Victorian East End accessible to all. Within the original buildings, an authentic Victorian Classroom has been set up where each year some 16,000 children experience a school lesson as it would have been taught more than 100 years ago.
We have also recreated a Victorian East End Kitchen from the 1900s, demonstrating what life would have been like in a simple, one-room home with no electricity or running water. The museum has several gallery areas, a reconstructed Victorian Classroom and a Victorian East End Kitchen displaying its own collection of historical objects, all designed for hands-on inspection. This is a museum where you can sit at the school desks, use the tin bath and experience what life was like for the Victorian poor of the East End of London.

Vestry House Museum[edit | edit source]

Vestry House Museum
Vestry Road
Walthamstow, London E17 9NH UK<brTelephone: 020 8496 4391
Email: vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk
Website: Vestry House Museum

Vestry House Museum presents the history of Waltham Forest. Situated in Walthamstow Village, the building used to house the parish workhouse, and was later a police station and private home.
It now contains themed displays capturing the unique heritage of the local area and includes the famous Bremer Car, a Victorian parlour, costume gallery and wonderful display of locally manufactured toys and games. A collection of 80,000 historic photographs from across the Borough is accessible to everyone by appointment. The beautiful volunteer-run garden is an oasis in which to relax and enjoy the arrival of spring.

Victoria and Albert Museum[edit | edit source]

Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Rd
Knightsbridge
London SW7 2RL UK
Telephone: 20 7942 2000
Email: contact@vam.ac.uk
Website: Victoria and Albert Museum

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

For a long list of London museums, go to List of museums in London in Wikipedia.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Saint, A., Politics and the people of London: the London County Council (1889–1965), (1989)
  2. ↑ Office of Public Sector Information – London Government Act 1963 (as amended) Archived 17 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 20 February 2008.
  3. ↑ Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Middlesex
  4. ↑ The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972 (SI 1972/2038)
  5. ↑ Office of Public Sector Information – Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994 Archived 2 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 20 February 2008.
  6. ↑ Office of Public Sector Information – The Heathrow Airport (County and London Borough Boundaries) Order 1993. Retrieved 23 February 2008. Office of Public Sector Information – The Greater London and Surrey (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No. 4) Order 1993. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
  7. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "British Library," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library, accessed 20 June 2017.
v • d• e
Links to Middlesex-related articles
v • d• e
England Archives and Libraries by county
Help-content.png FamilySearch England Research Forum Help-content.png
Retrieved from "https://integration-ru.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Middlesex_Archives_and_Libraries&oldid=5253130"