IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/LGLC
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LONDON GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY
Date(s): 1833-1883
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1.25 linear metres
Name of creator(s): London Gas Light and Coke Company
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The London Gas Light and Coke Company Deed of Settlement was formed in 1832-1833. It was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1844 (7-8 Victoria cap. 95); 1849 (12-13 Victoria cap. 37) and 1852 (15-16 Victoria cap. 82). The Company had Gas Works at Nine Elms, Vauxhall. It was amalgamated with the (Chartered) Gas Light and Coke Company in 1883.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the London Gas Light and Coke Company, 1833-1883, comprising Directors' meetings signed minutes; Shareholders' meetings signed minutes; Committee of Works, Estimates, Contracts and Buildings signed minutes; Committee of Finance signed minutes; and Committees of Works, Finance and Inspection, and General Board signed minutes.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
B/LGLC/01-25: minutes
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in March and September 1966.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See also records of the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company and the North Thames Gas predecessors: ACC/0638, ACC/0880, LMA/4438, B/NTG and B/GLCC.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009