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GRAND SURREY CANAL


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/290

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: GRAND SURREY CANAL

Date(s): 1813

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Grand Surrey Canal Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Grand Surrey Canal was the chief London canal south of the Thames, extending from Surrey Commercial Docks to Camberwell and was originally intended to go as far as Mitcham when it was first authorised in 1801. Ralph Dodd was the first engineer and the entrance lock into the Thames was opened in 1807. The canal's use for transport ceased in 1836 and it became a line of wharves. The company combined with the Commercial Docks Company to take over Surrey Commercial Docks in 1864, but in 1908 it was transferred to the Port of London authority who closed it in 1971 when it was subsequently drained.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Share certificates in the Grand Surrey Canal (numbers 1513-1522), belonging to Daniel Birkett, Hatton Garden, 1813.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

O/290/001-010

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 1969.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Canal companies | Canal construction | Construction industry | Industry
Canals | Transport infrastructure
Certificates | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Share dealing | Financial markets | Investment | Finance
Navigation (engineering)
Transport companies
Waterways

Personal names

Corporate names
Grand Surrey Canal Company

Places