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- 1876-1914 (Creation)
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The Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited provided electricity to the 'metropolitan' parts of Middlesex, which are now part of London. It was taken over by the Eastern Electricity Board in 1947 when electricty services were nationalised.
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GB 0074 ACC/2150 1876-1914 Collection 0.01 linear metres Drivers, Jonas and Company , surveyors
The Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited provided electricity to the 'metropolitan' parts of Middlesex, which are now part of London. It was taken over by the Eastern Electricity Board in 1947 when electricty services were nationalised.
Gifted in 1985.
Records of the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited, comprising plan of land lying in Fulham between West Kensington Station (marked as Barons Court Station), North End Road (marked as 'Barons Court Road late North End Road'), Greyhound Road (marked as Old Grey Hound Road), Hammersmith Cemetery, and the District Line Railway (marked as the Metropolitan District and Hammersmith Extension Railway), 1876; site plan showing the position of Marylebone Passage Sub-Station between Marylebone passage and Eastcastle Street (marked as Castle Street East), St Marylebone, 1904; site plan showing the M.E.S. Co. Generating Station between Manchester Street, Aybrook Street (marked as North Street) and Blandford Street (marked as South Street), St Marylebone, 1914 and plan of Woods Place, Bermondsey, 1914.
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Available for general access.
Copyright rests with the City of London.
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
For more records of the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited see LMA/4278/01 (London Electricity Board).
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Gifted in 1985.
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Records of the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited, comprising plan of land lying in Fulham between West Kensington Station (marked as Barons Court Station), North End Road (marked as 'Barons Court Road late North End Road'), Greyhound Road (marked as Old Grey Hound Road), Hammersmith Cemetery, and the District Line Railway (marked as the Metropolitan District and Hammersmith Extension Railway), 1876; site plan showing the position of Marylebone Passage Sub-Station between Marylebone passage and Eastcastle Street (marked as Castle Street East), St Marylebone, 1904; site plan showing the M.E.S. Co. Generating Station between Manchester Street, Aybrook Street (marked as North Street) and Blandford Street (marked as South Street), St Marylebone, 1914 and plan of Woods Place, Bermondsey, 1914.
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Available for general access.
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Copyright rests with the City of London.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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For more records of the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited see LMA/4278/01 (London Electricity Board).
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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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.
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- English