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WOOLWICH EQUITABLE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/WEQG

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WOOLWICH EQUITABLE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY

Date(s): 1832-1865

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.2 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company was formed in 1832. It was incorporated by Act of Parliament, 18 and 19 Vict., cxxvi, 1855. Amalgamated with the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company by Order in council, 9 Sep 1884, under 39 and 40 vict., c.ccxxix, South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company Act 1876.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company, 1832-1865, comprising small collection of minutes and annotated copies of deed of settlement and indentures amending it.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Deed of Settlement: B/WEQG/I/001; Shareholders' and Directors', Meetings, Minutes: B/WEQG/II/001-002; Directors' Meetings, Minutes: B/WEQG/III/001-002.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

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 on 23 February 1977 (AC/77/013).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

B/WPCG-Woolwich, Plumstead and Charlton Consumers Gas Company. B/SMETG: South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company B/WEQG: Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company.

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
Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company

Places