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WESTERN GAS LIGHT COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/WGL

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WESTERN GAS LIGHT COMPANY

Date(s): 1821-1860

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.48 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Western Gas Light Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Western Gas Light Company was incorporated by Act of Parliament 1845 and the deed of settlement is dated 1846. It was amalgamated with the (Chartered) Gas, Light and Coke Company, 1872.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Western Gas Light Company, 1821-1860, including deed of settlement, Acts of Parliament relating to the Company, licences, papers relating to property, legal case papers, minutes of Directors' meetings and minutes of Shareholders' meetings.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In three sections: Legal Records; General Records; Minutes.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

B/WGL/43 and B/WGL/50 are unfit for consultation.

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 by 1966 (AC/66/054).

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Deed of Settlement | Charity records | Documents | Information sources
Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Gas companies | Utilities | Service industries
Gas supply | Energy supply | Energy policy
Gas utilities | Gas industry | Power industry | Industry
Gasworks | Industrial facilities | Facilities
Company archives
Legal case papers
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Western Gas Light Company

Places