Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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116 16 September [1889] Postcard from Denny Lane, Paris, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Lane has received the letter and arrived this morning. He is

getting along very well, and Paris is ‘full of Cathedrals &c. to repletion’. Mentions a long talk with the engineer at Brussels.

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117 21 September 1889 Postcard from Denny Lane, Paris to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Mentions ‘great Gas night last night’ when he met two ex- presidents of the French Engineers at Exhibition . He is not alarmed at electric light putting up large additional works in Paris, as the consumption of Gas increases. 1 item 118 3 June 1891 Memorandum from Denny Lane, Newcastle, England to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Mainly concerns purchase and contracts for coal. He is heading to Edinburgh and then to London via Carlisle. 3pp 119 6 June 1891 Note from Denny Lane, 72 South Mall, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Concerns papers in his office and his appointment to meet Mr. Bowes, Barrister, about electric lighting. 1p 120 6 June 1891 Newsclipping from ‘Drapery Record’, London. ‘The Electric Light – Claim for Damages for Neglect to Supply’. Court case involving Hampton and Sons versus The London Electric Supply Corporation for £5,000 damages for failing to adequately light a Pall-Mall premises, which were left in ‘partial or complete darkness’. 1 item

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