IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/3364
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WEST MIDDLESEX WATER WORKS
Date(s): 1826-1849
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s): West Middlesex Water Works
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The West Middlesex Water Works were established in 1806 to supply the Western Suburbs. They were originally proposed by Robert Dodd, a civil engineer, to supply the area around Hammersmith and Kensington. The company was incorporated in 1806 with a capital of £80,000. After a disagreement over the location of the works, Dodd resigned and William Nicholson took over in 1807 to oversee the establishment of a works at Hammersmith. Under an act designed to increase the capital of the company by £160,000, the area covered by the West Middlesex Water Company was extended to include the parishes of St James Westminster, St Anne's Soho, St Mary-le-Strand, St Clement Danes, St Paul's Covent Garden, Paddington, Marylebone, St Pancras, St George Bloomsbury and St Giles in the Fields.
In 1825 a pump was built to channel water to a new resevoir at Barrow Hill, near Primrose Hill. New resevoirs were constructed at Barnes in 1838 and in 1866 the company entered into an agreement with the Thames Conservancy which allowed it to draw an extra 4 million gallons of water from the river per day.
The company was taken over by the Metropolitan Water Board under the Metropolitan Water Act, 1902 (2 Edward VII, c.41).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the West Middlesex Water Works, comprising share certificate of James Butt and Edward Wigan and shares of Phillip Penning, 1826-1849.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In two bundles: share certificates and shares.
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:
Deposited in 1994 (ACC/3364).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Further records of the West Middlesex Water Works at ACC/1024
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009