LONDON GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 B/LGLC
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full 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 & 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.

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.

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