Seeboard

Not to be confused with Seaboard.

Seeboard, formerly South Eastern Electricity Board (SEEB), was a British electricity company. The electrical power industry in the United Kingdom was nationalised by the Electricity Act 1947, when over 600 electric power companies were merged into 12 area boards, one of which was the South Eastern Electricity Board. It acquired the former Princes Hotel (now King's House) on the seafront in Hove, East Sussex, and converted it into its headquarters. The building was refurbished and substantially extended between 1979 and 1981.[1]

The key people on the board were: Charles George Morley New (d.1957) (1948–55),[2] Chairman Harold V. Pugh (1964), E. Sinnott (1967), Deputy Chairman E. Sinnott (1964), A. G. Milne (1967), full-time member E. Peel (1964, 1967).

The total number of customers supplied by the board was:[3][4]

Customers supplied South Eastern Electricity Board
Year 1948/9 1960/1 1965/6 1970/1 1975/6 1978/9 1980/1 1985/6 1987/8 1988/9
No. of Customers, 1000s 1482 1787 1848 1849 1844 1872 1787 1849 1887 1909

The amount of electricity, in GWh, sold by the South Eastern Electricity Board over its operational life was:[3][4]

  1. ^ Middleton 2003, Vol. 13, p. 29.
  2. ^ "Obituary CG Morley New (p. 12)". The Times. 11 December 1957.
  3. ^ a b The Electricity Council (1980). Handbook of Electricity Supply Statistics 1979. London: The Elaectricity Council. pp. 58, 63. ISBN 0851880762.
  4. ^ a b The Electricity Council (1990). Handbook of Electricity Supply Statistics 1989. London: The Electricity Council. pp. 51 56. ISBN 085188122X.