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A History of the County of Essex
… was already in existence at Ongar in 1827. 17 The Ongar Gas Co. began to supply the town in 1836. 18 In 1911 it was absorbed by the Bishop's Stortford Gas Co. and in 1934 the Ongar works were closed, gas being supplied by a trunk main from Epping. 19 The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… school, improvements in public transport, the provision of gas along the high road, and, in 1843, the building of a … of fields and gardens. Plans to sell them to the Brentford Gas Co. were frustrated by public protest and in 1923 they …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… sewers to the central works at Mogden, in Isleworth. 18 Gas was to be supplied along Chiswick High Road by the new Brentford Gas Co. in 1821. 19 The company was taken over in 1926 by the Gas Light and Coke Co., 20 which in 1948 still supplied gas …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a rapid rise into importance. It was at first lighted with gas by Mr. Timothy Lightoller, from his private works, but is …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the workhouse and canal side; the cattle market and gas-works lie on its south side. To the north of Church Brow … and the town is now supplied by Liverpool. The first gas-works were not intended for the public service, but a company was formed in 1819 to develop them, and erected gas-works in Water Street in 1833. 241 These have been …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… now consists of several good streets, well lighted with gas, paved, and amply supplied with water; and is inhabited …
Survey of London
… for 222 I6 s. 6 d. 171 In 1866 clock dials illuminated by gas were installed by B. R. and J. Moore of Clerkenwell … of the chandeliers was followed by the installation of gas-lighting by William Smith at a cost of 257 17s. 2d. 152 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 95 the U.D.C. opened a cemetery near Brockhurst. 96 A gas works was built at World's End c. 1860. 97 By 1867 parish gas-lighting inspectors 98 had arranged for the town to be …
Survey of London
… and commended the care lavished on detail, instancing the gas standards. 209 C. Maurice Davies thought its magnificence …
A Dictionary of London
… Yard and the wharves, etc., in O.S. by the City of London Gas Works. In Horwood by the New River Office and Yard. City …