Beautiful debenture stock certificate from the East London Water Works Company issued no later than 1899. This historic document was printed by William Brown & Company and has the signature of the Company's Secretary, and is over 111 years old. In 1806 the West Middlesex Water Company, to supply the western suburbs. They took their water from the Thames, at Hammersmith. In the same year the East London Water Works Company was established to supply the East End of London with water from the Lea.