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The file contains records of dividends payable to individual shareholders, 1913-1933.

The file contains accounts relating to Trust administration and estates, 1920-1939.

The file contains an agreement with the Burry Port and Gwendreath Valley Railway relating to a siding on the Llanelli branch, 1917, together with a copy.

Conveyances and correspondence between the Trust, Waltplan, the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company, the Romilly estate, the Great Western Railway, British Railways (Western Region), the British Transport Commission, Barry Garden Suburb and Barry Borough Council, concerning leases, underleases, mortgages, ground rents, sales of freehold reversions, and sewage pipes on land purchased by the Trust in Barry that had previously been owned by railway companies, with related drawings and plans.

Correspondence between the Trust, solicitors, town planners, estate agents, Barry Garden Suburb, the Great Western Railway, British Railways (Western Region), the Welsh Office and Glamorgan County Council, together with copies of agreements between Barry Garden Suburb and the Great Western Railway and between the Romilly estate and the Vale of Glamorgan Railway, concerning land near the railway tunnel adjoining Porth-y-Castell and the development there of allotments, a footpath and a road, including the use of the area as an unauthorised car park and refuse dump.

Correspondence between the Trust, Barry Urban District Council, Barry Borough Council, newspapers and magazines concerning advertisements and other publicity material relating to the Trust, notably in Barry UDC's Barry Guide, together with a draft copy of an editorial article about the Trust published in Town and Country Review, and copies of advertisements for the press.

The series contains publications about the Trust and its activities, and related material.

Papers relating to financial aspects of the Trust's acquisition, disposal and development of properties.

Press cuttings from local newspapers covering matters relating to Barry Garden Suburb, including articles concerning local town-planning, building development at Barry, publicity material, the history of the area, other housing developments, local politics, and news and opinion relating to local persons, businesses, neighbourhoods and social issues, with associated press releases and notes.

Press cuttings from local newspapers relating to traffic and shopping, with illustrative photographs of the centre of Rhiwbina.

Press cuttings from Welsh newspapers, some annotated, concerning the provision of housing, with particular reference to south Wales, especially in relation to the Leasehold Reform Act (1967), the Housing Act (1964) and the Rent Act (1957), including matters such as leasehold, sales of freehold, rents, co-ownership and council houses, as well as home improvements, restrictive covenants, tax, rubbish dumps, solicitors' fees, television aerials, proposed housing developments, housing societies and associations, and a variety of other issues raised by property development, ownership and letting; also included are cuttings relating to housing schemes other than those affiliated to the Trust (including at Caerphilly, Cardiff, Wrexham, Ystrad Mynach and National Coal Board schemes in south Wales), together with cuttings relating to more general aspects of the history of housing in south Wales and the legal position of Monmouthshire, as well as a copy of an HMSO pamphlet containing a summary of reports by professional bodies on residential leasehold property.

The file contains press cuttings and other documents relating to directors and shareholders, 1944-1969.

The file contains correspondence with the Wrexham Advertiser and Star relating to subscription, 1936-1938, notes about Wrexham Garden Village, 1932, a souvenir number of the Wrexham Leader, 1932, and press cuttings from the same newspaper, 1927.

Correspondence between the Trust, architects, the Post Office, Barry Borough Council, Barry Urban District Council and the South Wales Electricity Board concerning Post Office wayleaves and infrastructure in Barry, including post boxes and telegraph poles and cables, as well as the numbering of houses, with related memoranda, notes, drawings, plans and blueprints.

The file contains correspondence with the Post Office relating to the placing of a telegraph post in Ffordd Estyn, 1958.

Agreements between the Trust, the Romilly estate, the Great Western Railway, the Vale of Glamorgan Railway, Barry Urban District Council, lessees and purchasers, including leases, underleases, assignments, mortgages, surrenders, licenses to carry out work, sales of freehold reversions and other deeds of sale of properties at Porth-y-Castell, Barry, together with correspondence between the Trust, solicitors, architects, contractors, estate agents, lessees, purchasers, banks, insurers, building societies, railway companies, town planners, Barry Garden Suburb, Barry Urban District Council, Barry Borough Council and the Land Charges Registry concerning proposed buildings, specification of buildings, planning permission, clearance of plots, construction of buildings, leases, underleases, assignments, mortgages, restrictive covenants, sales of freehold reversions, other sales of property, ground rents, deaths and probates of tenants, insurance, alterations and additions to properties, boundaries, easements, provision of utilities, drains and sewers, roads, footpaths, street works expenses, postal numbers of houses, uses of properties, weeds and trees, allotments and waste ground, camping, unauthorised refuse tipping and other nuisances, legal proceedings on non-payment of rents and bankruptcy of lessees, architects' and solicitors' fees, and office chairs, with related memoranda, notices, certificates, insurance policies, forms, drawings, plans, accounts, receipts, notes, press cuttings and photographs, as well as a few papers that also relate to the Castle Farm estate (E1/52/6), Trem-y-Don and Lakeside (E1/52 passim).

Agreements between the Trust, the Romilly estate and Barry Urban District Council, including leases, grants, sales and dedications of land at Porthkerry Park, Barry, some of which was to be used for roads and sewage works, with related drawings and plans.

The file contains correspondence with the Central Land Board, the Inland Revenue, British Railways (Western Region) and solicitors, 1949-1951, relating to claims by the Great Western (Plymouth) Housing Society.

The file contains copies of L[angford] L[ovell] Price, Co-operation and co-partnership (London, [1914]) and John J. Clarke, An introduction to planning (London, 1948).

The file contains office administrative accounts, 1913-1919.