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LONDON GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/LGLC

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LONDON GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY

Date(s): 1833-1883

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.25 linear metres

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The London Gas Light and Coke Company Deed of Settlement was formed in 1832-1833. It was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1844 (7-8 Victoria cap. 95); 1849 (12-13 Victoria cap. 37) and 1852 (15-16 Victoria cap. 82). The Company had Gas Works at Nine Elms, Vauxhall. It was amalgamated with the (Chartered) Gas Light and Coke Company in 1883.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the London Gas Light and Coke Company, 1833-1883, comprising Directors' meetings signed minutes; Shareholders' meetings signed minutes; Committee of Works, Estimates, Contracts and Buildings signed minutes; Committee of Finance signed minutes; and Committees of Works, Finance and Inspection, and General Board signed minutes.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

B/LGLC/01-25: minutes

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 March and September 1966.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also records of the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company and the North Thames Gas predecessors: ACC/0638, ACC/0880, LMA/4438, B/NTG and B/GLCC.

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
Companies | Enterprises
Corporate minutes | Business 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
Gas Light and Coke Company | 1812-1949 x Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company
London Gas Light and Coke Company

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