The African Lakes Corporation plc

Archive Unit

Scope and Content

  • Minute books, 1878-1991;
  • Agenda books, 1878-1954;
  • Papers relating to British South Africa Company and Protectorate of Nyasaland, 1889-1937;
  • Correspondence and papers, 1906-1946;
  • Cash book, 1878-1883;
  • Private journals, 1928-1941;
  • Insurance registers, 1904-1954;
  • Shareholders records, 1893-1984;
  • Prospectuses, 1893;
  • Staff records, 1884-1960;
  • Specification books, 1893-1949;
  • Telegraphic code book, 1894-1921;
  • Photographs and glass negatives, 1890-1993;
  • Publications and manuscripts, 1890-1970s;
  • Maps and plans, 1896-1927;
  • Valuations of land and property, 1935-1988;
  • Deeds, leases and company legal documents, 1889-1959;
  • Newspaper cuttings and ephemera, 1895-1954.