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Local History

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Ivey Family London Room

The Ivey Family London Room is a research facility for genealogy and local history located at the Central Library. It contains a wealth of secondary source materials on the city of London and the counties of Elgin, Middlesex, Norfolk and Oxford as well as original materials on the city of London and Middlesex County, such as:

  • books
  • diaries & manuscripts
  • minutes
  • maps
  • photographs and other memorabilia
  • selected municipal documents

The London Room collection does not circulate.

Ivey Family London Room Digital Collections

We provide online access to images and indexes from the local history collection. This is an ongoing project and new resources are always being uploaded. You can search the collection from here.

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