Catalogue description Newcastle and Gateshead Water C°
This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives
Reference: | DU.NGW |
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Title: | Newcastle and Gateshead Water C° |
Description: |
Newcastle Subscription Water Co DU.NGW/1 Minutes 1842 - 1846 1 volume Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company Corporate DU.NGW2/1-21 Directors meetings minutes (signed), 1845 - 1968, 21 volumes DU.NGW3/1-2 Proceedings of Managing Ditectors, 1845 - 1861 2 volumes DU.NGW/4 Finance Committee minutes, 1914 - 1927 1 volume DU.NGW/5 Works Committee minutes, 1904 - 1965 1 volume DU.NGW/6 Attendance of Directors at Board Meetings, 1969 - 1987 1 volume Engineering DU.NGW/7 Whittle Dean Resevoir. William Reid's reports during construction, 1846 - 1847 1 volume DU.NGW/8/1-12 Engineers reports to Board, 1868 - 1897, 1902 - 1956 12 volumes |
Date: | 1842-1987 |
Related material: |
For detailed history of the company see Water to Tyneside : a history of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company by R.W. Rennison, published by the Company, 1979. |
Held by: | Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
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Physical description: | 9 SERIES |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
Accession 2761 |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Company was formally established February 1845 as the Whittle Dean Water Company with the aim to "construct a capacious resevoir in the bed of a stream at Whittle Dean [Northumberland] ...capable of containing upwards of a years supply", under the leadership of several well known Newcastle figures, including Richard Grainger, Sir John Fife and others with W.G. Armstrong as secretary. By August 1845, the company had bought out the business of the Newcastle Subscription Water C° (see DU.NGW/1 below) which had been experiencing difficulties in maintaining good supplies. |
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