- Reference No:
- U DMS/4/89
- Dates:
- 8 Nov 1940-15 Nov 2000
- Description:
- File containing extracts from minutes held by the Missions to Seamen in period 1940-2000 relating to the head quarters of the society, and insurance valuation for 4 Buckingham Palace Gardens in London dated 1958. Includes references to: head quarters staff appointments, retirements and resignations; staff salaries; office moves; end of tenancy in Wimbledon and plans to move head quarters back to Buckingham Palace Gardens 1940; wartime working measures; office open hours; ARP and firewatching Feb 1941; rent of garage to be used as a store May 1942; new equipment and stationary; travel expenses; signatories for bank accounts; Knitting Association during wartime; war work of Commander H. Selby Ash May 1946; consideration of purchase of a house for head quarters staff accommodation Oct 1946; 22 Eccleston Square purchased 1946-1947; central records system to be established 1947; break ins; petty cash; redecoration of 4 Buckingham Palace Gardens Aug 1951; acquisition of 3 Buckingham Palace Gardens Oct 1952; accounts department; exhibitions secretary; cover during General Superintendent's tours; headquarters chapel, Mar 1956; loans to staff; future structure of staff considered Jun 1956; in memoriam donations to be used on head quarters chapel and a memorial book kept, Jun 1956; sick pay; new headquarters considered 1957; Flying Angel League secretary Apr 1958; Church Workers' pension Scheme Mar 1959; titles of headquarters staff Sep 1959; Charities Bill Act; proposed amendments to standing orders as relates to headquarters executive officers and staff Dec 1960; reconsideration of finding new headquarters 1964; headquarters to move to Radnor House, Norbury in Jul 1965; offer recieved from Diocese of London for the society to use the church of St Michael's Paternoster Royal as headquarters Mar 1968; assignment of Radnor House to Construction Industry Training Board May 1968; requests to hire of Whittington Hall at new headquarters 1969; renovations needed on St Michael's Paternoster Royal; structural alterations to headquarters 1974; redecoration of headquarters 1978; Central Office Feasibility Study Jun 2000.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
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Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)
