ASSOCIATED METROPOLITAN WATER COMPANIES

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/2558/AM
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: ASSOCIATED METROPOLITAN WATER COMPANIES
Date(s)	: 1879-1904
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.3 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Associated Metropolitan Water Companies

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Associated Metropolitan Water Companies was a forum for the chairman of the various water companies (and occasionally other members and officers) to meet together. Meetings held at New River Company Offices (1879) and 5 Victoria Street, Westminster (1880 - 1885).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Associated Metropolitan Water Companies, comprising minutes and accounts of the Metropolitan Water Companies Meetings of Chairmen; minutes of sub committees including the Intercommunication Committee of Engineers of the Metropolitan Water Companies and the Committee for the Management of Works of Intercommunication; and correspondence.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Within each company the records are divided as follows:
A (1) Corporate Records - including board minutes, parliamentary and legal papers;
B (2) Accounting Records - these are usually very extensive but do not include stocks and shares records which appear in section A;
C (3) Staff Records;
D (4) Water Supply and Distribution Records - including engineering and technical files;
E (5) Purchase Records - including stock books;
F (6) Property Records - many property matters are however dealt with in the legal papers in section A;
G (7) Miscellaneous Records.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

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 1988, as part of a larger accession of records from Thames Water.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
November 2009 to February 2010