IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/216
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BATTLE BRIDGE AND HOLLOWAY ROAD COMPANY
Date(s): 1827
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Battle Bridge and Holloway Road Company
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
An ancient route was the lane from Battle or Bradford Bridge (King's Cross) to Highgate recorded in 1492. Caledonian Road, originally the Chalk Road but renamed after the Caledonian asylum, was built in 1826 by the Battle Bridge and Holloway Road Company, to provide a direct cut from the area west of the City to Holloway Road via Battle Bridge.
From: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 3-8.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Share certificate of Charles Edmonds in the Battle Bridge and Holloway Road Company; with excellent seal impression of open carriage drawn by four horses, 1827.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One item
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 1955 (AC/55/065)
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