Freedom of Information: Records released as a result of Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests
September 2006
This table lists the individual records opened in August 2006 as a result
of FOI requests.
Subject
Date of
record
1984 Apr
13 - 1984
May 08
Description
Board of Trade
Catalogue
reference
BT 325/35
Board of Trade
BT 318/1
1929 Jan
01 - 1984
Dec 31
Register of Certificates of
Service, Masters and Engineers,
Royal Navy Service
Boards of Stamps
IR 59/477
1916-1964
BEECHAM, Sir Joseph;
notations, affidavits:
correspondence
Boards of Stamps
IR 40/6081
1920-1939
Assessment on interest and
dividends arising from trustees
abroad
Boards of Stamps
IR 40/9870
1912-1950
Proprietors of Singer Sewing
Machines: taxation history of
family fortune
British Council
BW 32/48
1986 Jan
01 - 1987
Dec 31
UK/ German Democratic
Republic cultural co-operation
programme 1987-1989:
Welsh Highland Railway (Light
Railway) Company: question
from Keith Hampson MP on
behalf of a constituent who was
interested in purchasing the
abandoned railway in order to
reconstruct, and thus was
requesting the Department of
Trade and Industry through his
MP to instruct the Official
Receiver to sell him the
liquidated company
negotiations
British Council
BW 32/46
1981 Jan
01 - 1985
Dec 31
General policy: including UK /
German Democratic Republic
cultural exchange programme
British Council
BW 36/15
1948-1956
Council operations in Hungary:
correspondence on policy
British Railways
Board
AN 188/304
1992 Mar
01 - 1992
Mar 31
Thameslink Project:
Loughborough Junction Station,
a preliminary report into the
feasibility of reinstating and
extending the platforms on the
east spur (Loughborough
Junction to Cambria Junction)
Cabinet Office
CAB 21/6081
1961 Jul
31 - 1962
Sep 26
Machinery of Government in
War: Burlington; Ministerial
nominations
Civil Aviation
Authority
Civil Aviation
Authority
DR 4/40
1945-1982
Aspden R R H
DR 5/33
1944-1963
A V Roe and Company Limited
(now Hawker Siddeley Aviation
Limited)
Colonial Office
CO 1021/8
1952-1953
Discussion on provision of seats
in Westminster Abbey for
Colonial government
representatives in London
Colonial Office
CO 1021/11
1952-1953
Discussions on order of
precedence for the Colonial
representatives to be seated in
the Abbey near enough to take
part in the acclamation
Colonial Office
CO 1021/10
1952-1953
Activities of the Sub-Committee
on Guests from Overseas;
liaison with the Earl Marshal
Colonial Office
CO 1021/12
1952-1955
Preparation and publication of
the official memorandum
Miscellaneous No. 524 on the
'Arrangements Made for the
Representation of the Colonial
Territories at the Coronation of
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,
June 1953...'
Colonial Office
CO 1021/13
1956
Correspondence relating to
Commonwealth Relations Office
publication No. CR 22 on the
Coronation and various matters
arising from it
Criminal
HO 144/22954
1921-1947
John Foster alias Cook alias
Gasken, habitual criminal and
escapee from Dartmoor 1931
and 1932: convicted of mail train
robberies, 1947.
McSWEENEY (McSWINEY),
Terence, Lord Mayor of Cork:
Irish political prisoner, death by
hunger strike, October 1920
MINOR, William Chester
convicted at Kingston on 25
March 1872 for murder and
sentenced to death (commuted)
William Weatherell or (Wetherill)
alias George Smithson,
convicted of numerous
burglaries; author of `Raffles in
Real Life' which contained
criticisms of borstal and prison
systems
CLARKE, Michael William and
KING, Wyndham John: murder
of Joseph Richard GODING on
4 May 1962 on the British
Steamship SS Camito on the
high seas. No body found. Both
convicted of manslaughter
Criminal Cases
PCOM 8/349
1918 1929
Criminal Cases
HO 144/17265
1872-1933
Criminal Cases
HO 144/11473
1914-1930
Director of Public
Prosecutions
DPP 2/3463
1962
Fire Service
HO 346/213
1978 Jan
30 - 1978
Jul 13
Central government intervention
in local government pay
negotiations with the National
Association of Fire Officers
(NAFO)
Foreign Office
FO 371/120713/1
1956
Previously closed extract: EP
1015/1. Now released and
reunited with parent piece
Foreign Office
FO 371/128663
1957
Leading personalities in
Hungary
Home Office
HO 144/21270
1936 Jun
22 - 1937
Mar 13
CIVIL DEFENCE: Progress
reports of A.R.P. Department,
Home Office
Home Office
HO 144/21271
1937 Apr
17 - 1938
Jan 17
CIVIL DEFENCE: Progress
reports of A.R.P. Department,
Home Office
Home Office
HO 144/21272
1938 Feb
25 - 1939
Aug 26
CIVIL DEFENCE: Progress
reports of A.R.P. Department,
Home Office
Lord Chancellor's
Office
LCO 2/8113
1964-1967
Royal Marriages Act 1772:
proposal for amendment
Metropolitan Police
MEPO 3/2174
1940-1941
Murder of Morris Sholman
(barman) by James Caie Forbes
McCallum in 'The Coach and
Horses' Public House,
Wellington Street, Covent
Garden on 20 December, 1940
Metropolitan Police
MEPO 2/9991
1959-1964
Disturbances involving coloured
persons
Metropolitan Police
MEPO 3/996
1937
Importuning by boys in Trafalgar
Square: Dorothea Maitland's
story
Metropolitan Police
MEPO 3/1001
1918-1938
Procuration of women and girls
and the work of the League of
Nations Traffic in Women and
Children Committee
Metropolitan Police
MEPO 3/1908
1939
Irish Republican Army activities:
protection of vulnerable points
Metropolitan Police
MEPO 3/1909
1939
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
activities: protection of Houses
of Parliament
Ministry of Defence
DEFE 24/1011
Discipline: conscientious
objectors policy
Ministry of Health
MH 159/121
1967 Sep
20 - 1979
Aug 13
1973-1981
Ministry of Health
MH 55/1090
1946-1953
War-blinded civilians: individual
cases
Ministry of Health
MH 102/712
1949-1951
National Nautical School,
Portishead, Somerset:
resignation of Commander H E
Evans, RN, head of the school
Ministry of Health
and successors
BN 68/295
Final draft of full length version
(pages 1 - 162)
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/10800
1988 Jan
01-1988
Dec 31
1929
Sickle cell anaemia and
thalassaemia
Gluckstein, Abraham, from
Russia. Resident in Edinburgh.
Certificate 17295 issued 25
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/4870
1925
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/14374
1931
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/10434
1929
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/9241
1928
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/7573
1927
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/33624
1939 Jan
01 - 1978
Dec 31
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/2350
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/4222
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/32906
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/38986
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/10926
1944 Jan
01 - 1948
Dec 31
1947 Jan
01 - 1947
Dec 31
1946 Jan
01 - 1947
Dec 31
1941 Jan
01 - 1964
Dec 31
1928
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/3827
1923
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/10125
1929
Nationality and
HO 405/3813
1945 Jan
June 1929.
Gluckstein, Joseph, from
Russia. Resident in London.
Certificate 12302 issued 14
August 1925.
Kinbrum, Benjamin [known as
Benjamin Keen], from Russia.
Resident in London. Certificate
A19714 issued 29 April 1931.
Wasserman, Mordche (or
Samuel Waterman), from
Russia. Resident in London.
Certificate 16947 issued 21
February 1929.
Cholodovsky, Abraham (or
Abraham Sadovsky), from
Russia. Resident in London.
Certificate 16697 issued 27
November 1928.
Woolfson, Samuel, from Russia.
Resident in Plymouth. Certificate
14226 issued 5 January 1927.
LEVENTHAL, S; LAVENTHAL,
H D Dates of birth: 21/04/1909;
19/09/1912
BROMBERGER, S M Date of
Birth: 25.07.1900
BRATSPIES, E Date of Birth:
04.04.1905
LEBENSOLD, D F Date of birth:
19/11/1917
NITKA, B Date of birth:
26/04/1913
Lesiansky, Morduch Movshev
Aronoff (or Mark Lishinsky), from
Russia. Resident in London.
Certificate 16772 issued 13
December 1928.
Tabaksman, Henoch Leib
(known as Harris Toberman),
from Poland. Resident in
London. Certificate 10,791
issued 27 December 1923.
Houtzamer, Willem, from the
Netherlands. Resident in
London. Certificate 16962
issued 4 March 1929.
BUCHHOLZ, S S Date of Birth:
Naturalisation
01 - 1948
Dec 31
1947 Jan
01 - 1947
Dec 31
1947 Jan
01 - 1948
Dec 31
1946 Jan
01 - 1981
Dec 31
1927
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/2982
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/1188
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/36926
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/7458
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/3064
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/9925
1955 Jan
01 - 1955
Dec 31
1928
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/11056
1928
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/3512
1924
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/7931
1927
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/33476
1938 Jan
01 - 1950
Dec 31
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/12394
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/13980
1939 1949
1939 Jan
01 - 1956
Dec 31
1931
HO 405/38964
20.04.1885
BOHRER, H Date of Birth:
25.03.1916
ARNDT, U W Date of Birth:
23.04.1924
MEURS, P Date of birth
29/12/1905
Bedeman, Gershon (or Harry
Bedeman), from Russia.
Resident in London. Certificate
14750 issued 13 May 1927.
BROLL, M Date of Birth:
10.07.1897
Lopes da Silva, Judith
Gonsalves, from Portugal.
Resident in London. Certificate
B.897 issued 12 October 1928.
Lopes da Silva, Stella (or Estela
Maria Gonsalves Lopes da
Silva). Child of Judith Gonsalves
Lopes da Silva. Certificate
B.897.
Carr, Henry Lambton. No
Nationality. Resident in
Helsingfors Finland. Certificate
B.921 issued 29 December
1928. Carr, Christopher John
Lambton. Child of Henry
Lambton Carr. Certificate B.921.
Ospala, Benjamin (known as
Ben Cohen), from Poland.
Resident in London. Certificate
11,297 issued 17 July 1924.
Tash, Morris, from Russia.
Resident in London. Certificate
14547 issued 28 March 1927.
LIEBRECHT, A; LIEBRECHT, E
M I Date of births: 24/09/1896;
11/12/1890
EHRENFRIED, D Date of birth
03.09.1881
NIEUWENHUIS, D Date of birth:
26/04/1897
Maciocia, Gustavo Gustone
Ettore Emilio (known as Gustavo
Antonio), from Italy. Resident in
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/33290
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/1773
1946 Jan
01 - 1963
Dec 31
1884; 1923
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/17680
1933
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/5286
1946 Jan
01 - 1958
Dec 31
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/14760
1949 Jan
01 - 1949
Dec 31
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/14906
1931
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/21731
1923-1943
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/7011
1896; 1927
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/16375
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/10174
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/7623
1936 Jan
01 - 1937
Dec 31
1946 Jan
01-1947
Dec 31
1927
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/3151
1924
Kirkcaldy. Certificate A20205
issued 07 July 1931.
LEMER, C Date of birth:
20/10/1911
Baerlein, Ferdinand, from
Germany. Resident in
Manchester. Certificate A4154
issued 1 August 1884.
Wonlar-Larsky, Nadejda
Dmitrievna (known as Nadine
Wonlar-Larsky). No Nationality.
Resident in London. Certificate
AZ2680 issued 21 March 1933.
BLODY, M Date of Birth:
23.12.1902; BLODY, A
(DIVORCED) now REICHIBANN
Date of Birth: 14.12.1910
FERRARIS, T M; FERRARIS, G
C Dates of birth 14.12.1883;
14.05.1887
De Vos, Maurice Oscar
Ferdinand Jerome, from
Belgium. Resident in Leicester.
Certificate B1189 issued 2 July
1931. De Vos, Martin Adrien
Ferdinand Antoine, child of
Maurice Oscar Ferdinand
Jerome De Vos. Certificate
B1189. De Vos, Suzanne
Palmyre Leontine Marguerite,
child of Maurice Oscar
Ferdinand Jerome De Vos.
Certificate B1189.
Shulman, Harris, from Russia.
Resident in London. Certificate
10621 issued 24 October 1923.
Rombach, Karl, from Germany.
Resident in Rochester.
Certificate A9357 issued 30
November 1896.
GINSBERG, I aka GILBERT, W
Date of birth 27.05.1903
DRACH, F Date of Birth:
27.11.1905
Press, Israel, from Russia.
Resident in Portsmouth.
Certificate 14355 issued 2
February 1927.
Wersoff, Hyman (known as
Hyman Shaw), from Russia.
Resident in Glasgow. Certificate
11,155 issued 21 May 1924.
Bidack, Joseph, from Russia.
Resident in London. Certificate
11,197 issued 2 June 1924.
Levinson, Abraham, from
Russia. Resident in Edinburgh.
Certificate 11782 issued 12
January 1925.
ARONHEIM. E Date of Birth:
21.04.1904
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/3619
1924
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/4351
1925
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/615
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/20126
01/01/1945
31/12/1947
1932-1936
Prison
PCOM 9/696
1937-1946
Prison
PCOM 9/1526
1951-1952
CARTER Horace: convicted at
Birmingham Assizes on 12
December 1951 of murder;
sentenced to death; executed 1
January 1952
Prison
PCOM 9/1189
1947
FRANKLING Albert: convicted at
Sussex 9 July of murder and
sentenced to penal servitude
Prison
HO 144/21930
1925-1944
PRISONS AND PRISONERS:
Forcible feeding of prisoners on
hunger strike.
Prison
PCOM 9/1611
1952
MANNEH, Backary: at Central
Criminal Court (CCC) on 27
March 1952 convicted of
murder; sentenced to death;
executed on 27 May 1952
Religion in Iran
FO 371/133060/1
1958
Previously closed extracts:
Jackets EP1781/1, 3. Now
opened and reunited with parent
piece
Royal
HO 144/15363
1904-1932
Royal
HO 144/20351
1936
Registration of Royal births,
marriages and deaths and nonRoyal marriages in the Chapels
Royal
TITLE ROYAL AND ROYAL
ARMS: Title Royal: Battersby
and Co Ltd: use of title "Edward
VIII" on boy's cap badge;
Santarelli, Loreto Ottavio, from
Italy. Resident in London.
Certificate AZ1678 issued 27
June 1932.
RUSHTON Arthur: convicted at
Chester 31 October 1946 of
murder and sentenced to death
Treasury
T 236/4398
1949-1958
Treasury
T 236/5950
1954-1957
refused
Gold reserves
Gold and foreign exchange
reserves of independent Sterling
Area countries