Old shares in Yorkshire Electricity Group plc

MobileSaver

Going through my late dad's belongings there's an old paper share certificate for a few shares in "Yorkshire Electricity Group plc"; does anyone have any pointers on how to find out whether the shares still have a monetary value?

EarthBoy

Those shares no longer exist as Yorkshire Electricity Group was taken over by Npower. The shares might have been bought out, or converted to Npower shares

Rollinghome

marina0403 wrote: »

Yorkshire Electricity Group Plc is an active company incorporated on 1 April 1989 with the registered office located in Tyne and Wear. Yorkshire Electricity Group Plc has been running for 27 Years 2 Months. There are currently 4 active directors and 1 active secretaries according to the latest annual return submitted on 8 October 2015

But now operates as a subsidiary of RWE Npower Holdings plc and the op's dad would/should have received cash when it was taken over and the share certificate became redundant.

You'll find a useful list of what happened to all the privatisation companies, including Yorkshire Electricity, here: https://www.share.com/web/pdf/guides/20050905Privatisationguide.pdf

Wednesday100

EarthBoy wrote: »

Those shares no longer exist as Yorkshire Electricity Group was taken over by Npower. The shares might have been bought out, or converted to Npower shares

Actually it was taken over by two American companies in 1997 and he would have receive 927p per share in August 1997. It was subsequently sold to Npower in 2001.