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taken by the Vestry can hardly be over estimated, and that too much
care and consideration to the details of the scheme cannot be given by
those to whom this important work has been entrusted.
Notices were received in June, 1892, from Mr. Sidney Morse, on
behalf of the County of London Electric Lighting Company, Limited,
of 1, Great Winchester Street, and from the Holloway Electricity Supply
Company, Limited (Messrs. Sharp & Kent), of their intention to apply
to the Board of Trade for Provisional Orders to authorise them to supply
electricity within the parish. The draft Orders were subsequently taken
into consideration by the Vestry, when it was found that the County
of London Electric Lighting Company had scheduled the whole of the
parish as the area in which they desired authority to supply electricity,
while the Holloway Electricity Company proposed to confine their
operations to so much of the parish as lies north of the North London
Railway and to the west of the east side of Petherton Road. The latter
Company's Order also contained provisions for the purchase by the
Company of the works, pipes, mains, &c., already laid down in Tollington
Road and Holloway Road by or belonging to Messrs. Sharp & Kent, and
for the sale to the Vestry at any time after the commencement of the
Order of the undertaking or any part thereof upon such terms as might
be agreed upon. Inasmuch as the Vestry had itself made application
to the Board of Trade for a Provisional Order and as the special
Committee before referred to was at that time investigating the various
systems of electric light with a view to submitting a scheme to the
Vestry, the Vestry declined to give its consent to either of the Orders.
The Order granted by the Board of Trade in 1891 to the Camberwell
and Islington Company, and known as "The Islington Electric
Lighting Order, 1891," was revoked in December, 1892, by the Board
of Trade on the ground that the Company had failed to satisfy the
Board that they were in a position fully and efficiently to discharge the
duties imposed upon them by the Order. To this revocation the Vestry
offered no objection.
At Lady Day, 1893, there was no Provisional Order or Licence in
force to authorise any Company or person to supply electricity in the
parish,