… rent, and new items included, from 1853, payments to the gas company for street lighting, and in the 1880s payments … rent fell to only 50 by 1930, 47 excluding the rent of the gas works site which occupied a small area on the southern … as a rubbish tip, 49 and in the 1970s that part and the gas works site were built over. 50 In the 17th century and …