IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1603
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: TOTTENHAM AND DISTRICT GAS COMPANY
Date(s): 1916-1948
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Tottenham and District Gas Company | 1928-1948
Tottenham District Light, Heat and Power Company | 1914-1928
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Tottenham and District Gas Company was founded in 1847 as the Tottenham and Edmonton Gaslight and Coke Company. In 1914 it absorbed the Enfield Gas Company and became the Tottenham District Light, Heat and Power Company, and in 1928 it absorbed the Waltham and Cheshunt Gas Company, becoming the Tottenham and District Gas Company. Two years later the Ware Gas Company was absorbed, and in 1938 the Southgate and District Gas Company.
The Southgate and District Gas Company was formed in 1858 as the Southgate and Colney Hatch Gaslight and Coke Company. In 1866 it was re-incorporated as the Colney Hatch Gas Company, and in 1904 it became the Southgate and District Gas Company. It was finally taken over in 1938 by the Tottenham and District Gas Company.
In 1948 when the gas industry was nationalised the Tottenham and District Gas company came under the Eastern Area Gas Board which covered Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Ely, Norfolk, the Soke of Peterborough, Suffolk and parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Tottenham and District Gas Company, 1916-1948, consisting of agreements to supply gas and correspondence.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In two sections: agreements; correspondence. Records are chronological within the sections.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1980, ACC/1603.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See also ACC/1153 for more records of the Tottenham and District Gas Company.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009