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WRIGHT, John ([1770]-1844)
GB 0074 CLC/520 · Collection · 1719-1831

Papers of John Wright relating to his campaign to improve the water supply of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company. The records comprise: papers relating to the water supply in the Metropolis, 1719-1831; and letter of appeal concerning John Wright's efforts to improve the water supply, 1829.

Wright , John , [1770]-1844 , publisher and editor
GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/D · Collection · 1811-1906

Records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company relating to water supply and distribution, including Engineer's reports; Engineer's diaries for technical matters and workmen's time; Inspectors' technical diaries; revenue survey volumes; water supply and distribution volumes and files.

West Middlesex Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/C · Collection · 1861 Nov-1891 Nov

Staff records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company, comprising correspondence relating to the appointment of JA Christie.

West Middlesex Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/F · Collection · 1835-1954

Property records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company including trade rental books and rental volumes.

West Middlesex Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/A · Collection · 1770-1976

Corporate records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company, including Board of Directors minutes; General Assembly minutes; Committee minutes; letter books and correspondence; legal papers; records relating to stocks and shares; files on Royal Commissions on water supply; and general files of the Secretary.

West Middlesex Waterworks Company
THAMES WATER PREDECESSORS
GB 0074 ACC/2558 · Collection · 1582-1976

Records of Thames Water predecessor companies (water supply) and local authorities (waste water management including sewer network), comprising the following:

ACC/2558/CH: Chelsea Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/DV: Darenth Valley Main Sewerage Board

ACC/2558/EL: East London Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/GJ: Grand Junction Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/KE: Kent Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/LA: Lambeth Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/LC: Lee Conservancy Catchment Board

ACC/2558/LL: London Local Authorities, Metropolitan Board of Works, London County Council and Greater London Council

ACC/2558/MW: Metropolitan Water Board

ACC/2558/NR: New River Company

ACC/2558/S: Shadwell Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/SR: Staines Reservoir Joint Committee

ACC/2558/SV: Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company

ACC/2558/TW: Thames Water Authority

ACC/2558/WK: West Kent Main Sewerage Board

ACC/2558/WM: West Middlesex Waterworks Company

The records include corporate records and minutes, staff records, clerk's papers, records relating to water supply and distribution, technical reports, purchase records, property records, legal papers, plans, substantial series of photographs, glass plate negatives and lanterns slides (especially clean water: under ACC/2558/MW/PH, ACC/2558/MW/GP and ACC/2558/MW/L and sewer and waste water: under ACC/2558/LL/PH) and financial accounts and ledgers.

Cataloguing of this collection has been funded by Thames Water. For more information about the cataloguing project which was completed September 2019, please see 'The Thames Water Treasure Trove' in 'Source' magazine, July 2016 (library reference: 24.217 THA). London Metropolitan Archives would like to thank Thames Water for funding the cataloguing of this collection.

Chelsea Waterworks Company Darenth Valley Main Sewerage Board East London Waterworks Company Grand Junction Waterworks Company Kent Waterworks Company Lambeth Waterworks Company Lee Conservancy Catchment Board Metropolitan Water Board New River Company Shadwell Waterworks Company Staines Reservoir Joint Committee Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company Thames Water Authority West Kent Main Sewerage Board West Middlesex Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SR/A · Collection · 1889-1904

Corporate records of the Staines Reservoir Joint Committee, including Committee meeting attendance books, proceedings books and minutes; legal papers relating to property, rating, water supply, stocks and shares, Parliamentary issues and contracts; correspondence and debenture stock volumes.

Staines Reservoir Joint Committee
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SR/B · Collection · 1897-1904

Financial records of the Staines Reservoir Joint Committee, including half-yearly accounts; journal; cash book; ledgers; register of wills and papers relating to payments to solicitors.

Staines Reservoir Joint Committee
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/03 · Collection · 1877-1904

Staff records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including wages books; expenses books; time books and applications, testimonials and correspondence.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/04 · Collection · 1855-1906

Records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company relating to water supply and distribution, including Engineers' report books; Supervisors' report books; service pipe agreements; meter agreements; trade supplies report books; constant supply orders; building supplies registers; meter supplies records; fire report books; engine and coal accounts; calculations and statistics; works diaries; mains supply map books and registers of complaints.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/05 · Collection · 1872-1915

Purchase records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including works stock book; volumes recording good returned to stores; and volumes recording coal use.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/07 · Collection · 1852-1904

General records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including newscuttings books; papers relating to a legal case; papers relating to stocks and papers relating to works.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/01 · Collection · 1797-1906

Corporate records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including Board meeting minute books; Committee meeting minute books; Secretary's reports; correspondence and letter books; solicitor's accounts; legal papers; records relating to stocks and shares; registers of probates; mortgage records and contracts records.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/08 · Collection · 1805-1950

Records of the South London Waterworks Company (later the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company) including papers relating to shares; minutes of Director's meetings; stock certificates; papers relating to works and papers relating to a lawsuit.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company South London Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/02 · Collection · 1824-1906

Financial records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including accounts; ledgers; journals; cash books; revenue ledgers; Collector's accounts; bankers books; disbursement books; and building supply accounts.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0120 SA/SMO · 1856-1998

Papers of The Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1856-1998, comprising the constitution, 1892-1993; council records, 1856-1997; records of the general purpose committee, 1937-1981; records of the standing and temporary committees, and working parties and joint meetings, 1892-1996; general meeting records, 1856-1997; attendance books, 1872-1965; financial records, 1892-1996; members lists, 1895-1997; publications and official publicity, 1856-1997; historical material, 1866-1908; comments and evidence c 1879-1998; miscellaneous files, c 1879-1998; records of special interest groups, 1920-1997; papers, minutes and publications relating to the Society's Faculty of Community Health, 1988-1998; public health literature and sources, 1902-1997; files relating to the journal The Medical Officer, 1897-1973; non-Society records documenting public health measures, policies and issues in the first half of the 20th century; and minutes, files, transcripts of papers, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera relating to the regional Branches and Groups of the Society, 1875-1997.

The Society of Medical Officers of Health x The Association of Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health x The Incorporated Society of Medical Officers of Health x The Society of Community Medicine x The Society of Public Health Limited x The Society of Public Health x The Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene and Society of Public Health
GB 0074 ACC/2558/S/A · Collection · 1688-1812

Records of the Shadwell Waterworks Company, comprising financial material including rent books; cash books; receipt books; wage books; account books and some papers relating to works carried out.

Shadwell Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/10 · Collection · 1803-1903

Staff records of the New River Company, including wages books; returns of employees and papers relating to staff appointments.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/11 · Collection · 1778-1908

Records of the New River Company relating to water supply and distribution, including pipe order books; papers relating to works carried out; Engineer's papers; materials and fittings; papers relating to water supply; standpipe books; papers relating to Collectors; water rent account books and water rent rates; river and water gauges; pipe order books; river and water gauges; statistical returns and reports.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/07 · Collection · 1754-1905

Records of the New River Company relating to stocks and shares, including registers; dividends receipt books; pamphlets; ledgers; indemnities; share transfers; certificates and reports.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/12 · Collection · 1613-1912

Property records of the New River Company, including rent and arrears books; rents payable registers; rent and acknowledgements books; ground rents registers; building estate insurances; fire insurances and leases.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/06 · Collection · 1849-1904

Records of the New River Company relating to Parliamentary proceedings, including papers regarding relevant Select Committees and Bills; memoranda of proceedings; reports; and correspondence, statistics and reports relating to the Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Water Supply.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/05 · Collection · 1632-1905

Legal papers of the New River Company, including case papers; deed registers; correspondence; contracts; valuations; agreements; leases; papers relating to compensation and arbitration; petitions; and papers relating to land purchase.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/03 · Collection · 1770-1913

Correspondence files of the New River Company, including Secretary's letter books; letter books of staff members including engineers, supervisors and surveyors; general letter books and estate letter books.

New River Company
NEW RIVER COMPANY: CONTRACTS
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/08 · Collection · 1737-1904

Contracts of the New River Company including specifications; quotations; contracts; tenders; accepted contracts; accepted stores contracts and contracts for building offices.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/01 · Collection · 1769-1904

Minutes of the New River Company, including minutes, papers and reports of Weekly Meetings, of the General Courts of Governors, of the Surveys of the River Committee, of the Parliamentary Committee, of the Building Committee and of the River Lee Conservancy Board. Also copies of the charters of 1606 and 1737.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/13 · Collection · 1609-1969

Records of the New River Company which were separated from the main collection and used for exhibitions, including minutes; papers of the Surveyor; papers of the Engineer; negotiations for the supply of water; property papers; correspondence; reports; royal charters; agreements; legal papers; newspaper cuttings; papers relating to shares; contracts and specifications of works; and papers relating to staff.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/09 · Collection · 1709-1907

Financial records of the New River Company, including abstracts of accounts; balance sheets; ledgers; collectors ledgers; journals; disbursement books; cash books; revenue account books; audit books; bill book; bill cheque books; taxes and rates ledgers and accounts; landed estate accounts and meter rent books.

New River Company
NEW RIVER COMPANY
GB 0074 ACC/1262 · Collection · 1697

Records of the New River Company, comprising lease of a watercourse from main water pipe at back side of Saint Clement Danes to the private dwelling house of Thomas Dows, gentleman, 1697.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/MW/W · Collection · 1906-1937

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Water Examination Department, comprising annual reports, monthly reports and research reports.

Metropolitan Water Board
GB 0074 ACC/2558/MW/T · Collection · 1861-1980

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Treasurers and Comptrollers Department, including detailed balance sheets; Water Fund general ledgers; general journals; cash accounts ledgers; superannuation volumes; capital ledgers; borrowing powers volumes; investments volumes; mortgage sinking fund volumes; stock volumes; audit files; files relating to stocks and shares; mortgage loans files; registers of bankruptcies and liquidations and salary records.

Metropolitan Water Board
GB 0074 ACC/2558/MW/SU · Collection · 1637-1972

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Survey Department, including terrier volumes; registered dockets; files on land acquired; deeds registers; and files regarding rates assessments.

Metropolitan Water Board
GB 0074 ACC/2558/MW/01 · Collection · 1903-1974

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board, including minutes and related papers for the Board; the Appeal and Assessment Committee; the Works and Stores Committee; the Stores Account Sub-committee; the Special Co-ordinating Committee and the Special Arbitration Committee.

Metropolitan Water Board
GB 0074 ACC/2558/MW/CC · Collection · 1851-1909

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board relating to the Croydon Corporation Waterworks, comprising plans from the Engineering Department including Croydon Corporation Waterworks; Waddon Pumping Station; Stroud Green Waterworks; Surrey Street Pumping Station and water mains, ponds, wells and rivers.

Metropolitan Water Board
GB 0074 ACC/3168 · Collection · 1859-1992

Records of the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association, later known as the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association; including minutes; agendas; constitution; annual reports; records relating to property and structures (fountains); correspondence; bequests and trusts; staff; financial accounts; plans; photographs; printed material including press cuttings and histories, and case files relating to individual fountains.

Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association x Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
GB 0120 MSS.5984-5985 · 1885-1890

Prescription books [of William Martindale], 1885-1890. A number of the prescriptions are in fact recipes, including formulae for Sir Joseph Lister for cyanide of mercury and zinc in suspension (e.g. no. 2000), and another for '[Franz] Ziehl's stain for the tubercle bacillus' (no. 2600). Also included are reports on the analysis of drinking water at Winchelsea and elsewhere by John Attfield, Professor of Practical Chemistry at the Pharmaceutical Society, and by Dr Charles Meymott Tidy (nos. 2438-2439, 2892, 2979, 3035).

Martindale , William , 1840-1902 , pharmacist
Macdonald, Professor George
GB 0120 PP/MAC · 1938-1977

Papers of George Macdonald dealing predominantly with the later stages of his career, 1938-1977, although there is some material relating to his pre-war activities. They reflect his work as an international figure in the prevention and control of malaria, his involvement with numerous governmental and non-governmental bodies, his relationship with colleagues, his numerous tours on professional business, and his research and writing.

Macdonald , George , 1903-1967 , malariologist
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LB/04 · Collection · 1780-1822

Records of the London Bridge Waterworks Company relating to water supply and distribution, including water rental books; particluars of improvements to iron pipes; log book for steam engines and account of the working of the fire engine.

London Bridge Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LB/06 · Collection · 1749-1778

Stock transfer records for the London Bridge Waterworks Company, comprising book of wills for deceased shareholders and elevation and plan of the great engine for the fifth arch of London Bridge.

London Bridge Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LB/03 · Collection · 1820-1822

Staff records of the London Bridge Waterworks Company, comprising servants weekly wages book.

London Bridge Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LB/05 · Collection · 1811-1822

Purchase records of the London Bridge Waterworks Company comprising stock books, inventories and valuations.

London Bridge Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LB/01 · Collection · 1703-1904

Corporate records of the London Bridge Waterworks Company, including Committee of Managers minute books; General Meetings of the Proprietors minute books; shareholders register; stock ledgers and transfer books and dividend books.

London Bridge Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LB/02 · Collection · 1778-1823

Financial records of the London Bridge Waterworks Company, including cash books; Treasurer's accounts; monthly balances; Collector's accounts; arrears books; papers relating to rents; water rents lost by collectors and receipt books.

London Bridge Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LA/04 · Collection · 1838-1908

Records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company relating to water supply and distribution, including engineer's report books; Inspector's report books; water supply applications and agreements; supply registers; water meters; constant supply registers; registers of fires; water rent registers; engine time books and statistics; house surveys and works in progress.

Lambeth Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LA/03 · Collection · 1872-1904

Staff records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company, comprising establishment books.

Lambeth Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LA/02 · Collection · 1815-1905

Financial records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company, including ledgers; journals; cash books and day books; Collector's rent and revenue records; water charges records; road watering and meter account books.

Lambeth Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LA/01 · Collection · 1785-1914

Corporate records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company, including minute books of the Committee of Management and Directors; Committee minute books; agenda books; Director's reports; correspondence and letter books; legal papers; papers relating to stocks and shares; dividend books; registers of bonds; and contracts records.

Lambeth Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/LA/05 · Collection · 1797-1905

Further records of the Lambeth Waterworks Company, including Board papers; Secretary's reports; correspondence; legal papers; Parliamentary papers; contract papers; engineer's reports; inspector's reports; foreman's reports; papers relating to water supply; property records and staff records.

Lambeth Waterworks Company