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A History of the County of Somerset
… Hospital trustees and in 1919 erected the war memorial. Electricity was brought to the town in 1936. 79 CHURCHES In …
A History of the County of Stafford
… claims to be the first in the country to have been lit by electricity, which from 1883 was supplied from the Cannock … There was test equipment in the basement and also an electricity generator which provided light and power for the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and general manager of the company from 1873, introduced electricity at no. 2 pit. A claim that it was the first in … Gas Co. Ltd. It remained in use until c. 1952. 387 When electricity was introduced at the Cannock Chase Colliery … Chasetown Institute was opened in 1888, it too was lit by electricity. In 1922 the colliery company erected street …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to Longton tramway was extended to Hanley and Burslem. 126 Electricity was substituted for steam in 1899 after the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… destructor in Scotia Road opened in conjunction with the electricity works there in 1905. 68 The public baths in … its statutory rights. 93 The borough opened the present electricity works in Scotia Road in 1905. 94 The works passed … Staffs. Sentinel, 21 Oct. 1898. H.R.L., Burslem Boro. Electricity Cttee. Mins. 1897 1910, pp. 62, 102. Staffs. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and installed turbines in 1906. A mill powered solely by electricity was added in 1937. 1 The mills remained in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… survived until 1959, when the last street was converted to electricity. 12 GAS AND ELECTRICITY Responsibility for gas supply passed in 1878 to … (Derb.) in 1923 and to Wychnor and Alrewas in 1924. 15 An electricity works was opened by Burton corporation in 1894 on …