SOUTH METROPOLITAN GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 B/SMETG
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SOUTH METROPOLITAN GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY
Date(s)	: 1834-1965
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1.95 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company was founded in 1834 to serve Southwark and other places in what was then Surrey and Kent.

The following companies were amalgamated with the South Metropolitan: Surrey Consumers, 1879 (established 1854); Phoenix, 1880 (established 1824); Woolwich, Charlton and Plumstead, 1884 (established 1855); Woolwich Equitable, 1884 (established 1855).

The Company was nationalised in 1949 and placed under the control of the South Eastern Gas Board. It was the sole trustee of the South Metropolitan Gas Company's Officers' Pension Fund. It was wound up voluntarily, as the Pension Fund was wound up, on 1 April 1964 in accordance with the Gas (Superannuation Schemes) (Winding Up) Regulations, 1964.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company, 1834-1965. The records include the deed of settlement, minutes of the proprietors' and directors' meetings, reports of general meetings, acts and orders in council and items relating to the South Metropolitan Pension Fund Securities Limited.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

B/SMETG/I: Deed of settlement; B/SMETG/II-III: Minutes; B/SMETG/IV: Reports; B/SMETG/VII: Acts and Orders; B/SMETG/VIII: Pension Fund

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.

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.

Allied Materials

Related material:

B/PHG: Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Company B/SLONG: South London 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