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WANDSWORTH AND PUTNEY GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/WPG

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WANDSWORTH AND PUTNEY GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY

Date(s): 1834-1912

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.65 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Wandsworth and Putney Gas Light and Coke Company x Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The company was formed in 1834 and incorporated by Act of Parliament, 19 and 20 Vict., c.lxii, 1856, to serve the Wandsworth and Putney neighbourhood. It was amalgamated in 1913 with the Mitcham and Wimbledon District Gas Light and Coke Company and the Epsom and Ewell Gas Company to form the Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company from 1 Jan 1913.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Wandsworth and Putney Gas Light and Coke Company, 1834-1912, comprising deed of settlement and series of minute books for Directors Meetings and Shareholders Meetings.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Shareholders' Meetings, Minutes - WB/WPG/II/001-004; Directors' Meetings, Minutes - B/WPG/III/001-008.

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 1977 (AC/77/013).

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
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Deed of Settlement | Charity records | Documents | Information sources
Gas companies | Utilities | Service industries
Gas supply | Energy supply | Energy policy
Gas utilities | Gas industry | Power industry | Industry
Gasworks | Industrial facilities | Facilities
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Wandsworth and Putney Gas Light and Coke Company x Wandsworth | Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company

Places