WOOLWICH, PLUMSTEAD AND CHARLTON CONSUMERS GAS COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 B/WPCG
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: WOOLWICH, PLUMSTEAD AND CHARLTON CONSUMERS GAS COMPANY
Date(s)	: 1844-1884
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.2 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Woolwich Consumers Protective Gas Company x Woolwich, Plumstead and Charlton Consumers Gas Company

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Woolwich Equitable Gas Company was formed in 1832. Dissension about the price of gas in Woolwich led in March 1844 to the formation of the Woolwich Consumers Protective Gas Company with gasworks fronting the River Thames at Hog Lane. The company was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1855 (18 and 19 Victc.ii) as the Woolwich, Plumstead and Charlton Consumers Gas Company. Around 1862 it moved to new works in Glass Yard, Woolwich. In 1884 both the Woolwich, Plumstead and Charlton Consumers Gas Company and the Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company were amalgamated with the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Woolwich Consumers Protective Gas Company, later the Woolwich, Plumstead and Charlton Consumers Gas Company, 1844-1884, comprising minutes of meetings of the Directors and the Proprietors, and deed of settlement.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Deed of Settlement: B/WPCG/I/001; Proprietors' Meetings Minutes: B/WPCG/11/II/001; Directors Meetings Minutes: B/WPCG/11/III/001-002.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor.

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

Related material:

B/SMETG: South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company B/WEQG: Woolwich Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company

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