IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/515
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WATERLOO BRIDGE COMPANY
Date(s): 1843
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Waterloo Bridge Company
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Waterloo Bridge, designed by Rennie, was built by a private company which obtained an act of Parliament for that purpose in 1809. Work began in 1811 and the original intention was to use the name 'Strand Bridge'. The project was renamed 'Waterloo Bridge' in 1816, a year before it opened in 1817.
In 1878 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works and the existing tolls were abandoned. Structural defects were soon discovered and repaired, but in the 1920's, the bridge was declared unsafe. The London County Council replaced it with a design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott which was erected 1939-1944.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Waterloo Bridge Company comprising Annuity transfer certificates and Share Transfer Certificate from Ann Neild to William Ashton Nield, 1843.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two items
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the City of London.
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:
Items transferred from the Council's Map and Print Collections to the then London County Record Office, The County Hall, London SE1 August 1955. (AC/55/083)
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Other shares and annuity certificates are to be found at BC/W, ACC/0276/486 and ACC/0624/13. There is a drawing of the bridge, LCC/MISC. P10, 1891.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009