The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company was formed by an Act in 1770 to enable trade connections across the Pennines to be improved. The company bought out Douglas Navigation in 1753. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company passed to the British Transport Commission by an Act of 1947.
One bound volume of annual reports of directors and statements of accounts for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, 1877, 1895-1927, 1929-1933 and 1935.
Transferred from the Reserve Collection.
Usual EUL arrangements apply.
Usual EUL restrictions apply.
Single item only.
Other papers relating to the Company are held at the following repositories: The National Archives; West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford, Leeds, and Wakefield; Lancashire Record Office; Wakefield Libraries and Information Service, Local Studies Library; North Yorkshire County Record Office; Liverpool Record Office.
It is not known whether this collection has been used as the basis for publication.
Description compiled by Charlotte Berry, Archivist, 15 March 2005, and encoded by Karen Atkinson into EAD on 2 June 2005.