Middlesex Archives and Libraries


 * Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
 * If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
 * Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

New London Boroughs formed from ancient county of Middlesex
'''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.'''

New London Boroughs from former Middlesex County Council area
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)

Middlesex Areas transferred to Surrey, Hertfordshire, and Berkshire
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. 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. In 1995, the village of Poyle was transferred from Spelthorne to the Berkshire borough of Slough. 5. Additionally, the Greater London boundary to the west and north has been subject to several small changes since 1965.

Libraries
Libraries in London

Guildhall Library Aldermanbury London EC2V 7HH UK Telephone: 20 7332 1868/1870 Email: [mailto:guildhall.library@cityoflondon.gov.uk 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: [mailto:Customer-Services@bl.uk 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.

Museums
Brent Museum The Library at Willesden Green 95 High Road Willesden, London NW10 2SF UK Telephone: 020 8937 3600 Email: [mailto:museum.archives@brent.gov.uk museum.archives@brent.gov.uk] Website
 * 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 Lordship Lane Haringey, London N17 8NU UK Telephone: 020 8808 8772 Email: [mailto:museum.services@haringey.gov.uk museum.services@haringey.gov.uk] Website
 * 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.

Gunnersbury Park Museum Gunnersbury Park Popes Ln London W3 8LQ UK Telephone: 20 8992 1612 Email: [mailto:gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk gunnersbury@ealing.gov.uk] Website Website
 * 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 Technology and Learning Centre (Ground Floor) 1 Reading Lane Hackney, London E8 1GQ UK Telephone: 020 8356 3500 Email: [mailto:hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk] Website
 * 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 Headstone Manor Pinner View Harrow, London HA2 6PX UK Telephone: 020 8863 6720 Email: [mailto:harrow.museum@harrow.gov.uk harrow.museum@harrow.gov.uk] Website
 * 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
Islington Museum 245 St John Street London EC1V 4NB UK Telephone: 020 7527 2837 Email: [mailto:islington.museum@islington.gov.uk 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
Ragged School Museum 46-50 Copperfield Road London E3 4RR UK Telephone: 20 8980 6405 Email: [mailto:pauline@raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk 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
Vestry House Museum Vestry Road Walthamstow, London E17 9NH UK<brTelephone: 020 8496 4391 Email: [mailto:vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk 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
Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Rd Knightsbridge London SW7 2RL UK Telephone: 20 7942 2000 Email: [mailto:contact@vam.ac.uk 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.

Museums

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

British Museum Great Russell St Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG UK Telephone: 20 7323 8299 Email: [mailto:info@britishmuseum.org info@britishmuseum.org] Website: British Museum


 * The British Museum is dedicated to human history, art and culture, and is located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works, is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

Museum of London 150 London Wall London EC2Y 5HN UK Telephone: 020 7001 9844 Email: [mailto:access@museumoflondon.org.uk access@museumoflondon.org.uk] Website


 * The Museum of London documents the history of London from prehistoric to modern times. The museum is located on London Wall, close to the Barbican Centre as part of the striking Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and 1970s as an innovative approach to re-development within a bomb-damaged area of the City of London.

Civil Registration Offices
The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their website (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.

Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the historic and current registration districts and their parishes, see UKBMD: Registration Districts in London.

Ordering Certificates and Individual Office Information

 * Family History Certificates for Greater London includes contact information for registration offices around Great London.