METROPOLITAN FREE BRIDGES ASSOCIATION

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4541
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: METROPOLITAN FREE BRIDGES ASSOCIATION
Date(s)	: 1870-1879
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.09 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Metropolitan Free Bridges Association

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

When the London Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Bill was before the House of Commons in 1868, it met strong opposition. The suggestion was made that some compensation should be given by setting free the bridges across the Thames and Lea. This suggestion was embodied in the Act of 1868 by which the duties for the year 1888-9 were to be applied in the first instance to freeing from toll the following bridges: Kew, Kingston, Hampton Court, Walton and Staines on the Thames, and then Chingford and Tottenham Mills Bridges (including Hellyer's Ferry Bridge) upon the River Lea. These objects were provided for by the Kew and other Bridges Act of 1869 and an amendment Act of 1874 by which a Joint Committee of the Corporation of London and the Metropolitan Board of Works was appointed. The Coal and Wine Duties of 1888-9 were allocated as security for raising the necessary funds. The total cost of the purchase of the bridges was £155,485.2.0.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Metropolitan Free Bridges Association, comprising committee minutes and a cash book.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

LMA/4541/A: Administration; LMA/4541/B: Finance.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records 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:

Records deposited in 2010.

Allied Materials

Related material:

For more records relating to freeing Thames bridges from tolls see BC and CLA/018.

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:
June to August 2010.