There are some local council plans held at the Centre dating from about 1890 up until the 1940s, mainly covering Bexley and Erith. Enclosure Awards from the beginning of the nineteenth relating to the enclosure of common land may also be useful. The main award for the area was for Bexley in 1819 but we also have an unindexed award for Erith in 1815. Census returns We hold these on microfilm for Bexley London Borough area from 1841 - 1891. There are various indexes available to these censuses.
All years have a place index and the majority also have surname indexes.
Printouts of these can be obtained for a small charge. There are many other sources in the Archives which may be of use to house historians - please telephone or ask staff for more details. However, despite Acts of Parliament in 1862 and 1926 it has only been compulsory to register land transactions since 1990. In addition, although registration records do still go back to the nineteenth century you can usually only obtain the name of the current registered owner of the land unless you can give a good enough reason for needing further information. They vary a great deal in what they contain and while in some cases there may be plans of the property and documents relating to each purchaser of the building in other cases in may be complicated legal documents relating to conveyance etc.