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The London Electricity Board (LEB) was responsible for the supply of electricity, and retail and development of electrical appliances to domestic customers and businesses in the London area from 1948 to 1990. Although the LEB's geographical area of 250 square miles was the smallest in the country, it was the most densely populated, having over 20,000 inhabitants per square mile (1950s). The Board had resulted from the nationalisation of electricity which had brought together a large number of undertakings that had developed in a piecemeal fashion since the 1880s.
The LEB predecessor undertakings with records in this collection comprise:
Saint Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council
Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council
Islington Metropolitan Borough Council
Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council
Leyton Municipal Borough Council
Walthamstow Urban District Council
Battersea Metropolitan Borough Council
Barking Urban District Council
Fulham Metropolitan Borough Council
Barnes Urban District Council
Chislehurst Electric Supply Corporation Ltd
London Electric Supply Corporation Ltd
Dartford Urban District Council
East Ham County Borough Council
Ilford Municipal Borough Council
Willesden Urban District Council
Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough Council
Erith Urban District Council
Marylebone Electric Supply Company Ltd
Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough Council
County of London Electric Supply Company Ltd
Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council
The Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Ltd
West Kent Electric Company Ltd
Wimbledon Municipal Borough Council
Beckenham Urban District Council
Central London Electricity Ltd
London Associated Electricity Undertakings Ltd
City of London Electric Lighting Company Ltd
Foots Cray Electricity Supply Company Ltd
South London Electric Supply Company Ltd
South Metropolitan Electric Light and Power Company Ltd
Southwark Metropolitan Borough Council
Notting Hill Electric Lighting Company
Stepney Metropolitan Borough Council
London Power Company Ltd
Bromley Rural District Council
Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council
Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council
West Ham County Borough Council
Hackney Metropolitan Borough Council
For detailed histories of these undertakings see the introduction to LMA/4278/01 and for the LEB see the introduction to LMA/4278/02 in the catalogue.