WATERLOO BRIDGE COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 O/515
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: WATERLOO BRIDGE COMPANY
Date(s)	: 1843
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Waterloo Bridge Company

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Waterloo Bridge, designed by Rennie, was built by a private company which obtained an act of Parliament for that purpose in 1809. Work began in 1811 and the original intention was to use the name 'Strand Bridge'. The project was renamed 'Waterloo Bridge' in 1816, a year before it opened in 1817.

In 1878 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works and the existing tolls were abandoned. Structural defects were soon discovered and repaired, but in the 1920's, the bridge was declared unsafe. The London County Council replaced it with a design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott which was erected 1939-1944.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Waterloo Bridge Company comprising Annuity transfer certificates and Share Transfer Certificate from Ann Neild to William Ashton Nield, 1843.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Two items

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Items transferred from the Council's Map and Print Collections to the then London County Record Office, The County Hall, London SE1 August 1955. (AC/55/083)

Allied Materials

Related material:

Other shares and annuity certificates are to be found at BC/W, ACC/0276/486 and ACC/0624/13. There is a drawing of the bridge, LCC/MISC. P10, 1891.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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