INDEPENDENT GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 B/IND/GLCC
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: INDEPENDENT GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY
Date(s)	: 1827-1875
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1.65 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Independent Gas Light and Coke Company | 1824-1876

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

A deed of settlement for the Independent Gas Light and Coke Company was recorded in 1824. The Company was incorporated in 1829 by the Act of Parliament, 10 George IV, cop.118. The Company Gas Works were at Haggerston. The Company amalgamated with the (Chartered) Gas Light and Coke Company in 1876.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Independent Gas Light and Coke Company, 1827-1875, comprising minutes of Directors and Shareholders meetings with some enclosures including letters, notices, circulars, and prospectuses.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

In sections:B/IND/GLCC/001-006: Directors Meetings and B/IND/GLCC/007-009: Shareholders Meetings.

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 1965.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See O/487 for the seal of the Independent Gas Light and Coke Company. See also records of the North Thames Gas predecessors and the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company, 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