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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Uxbridge Road by 1907. 97 At Brentford the police and the gasworks' employees ran their own cricket clubs in 1888, when … at the Star and Garter in 1888, and a rowing club for the gasworks' employees in 1907. 6 Golf was provided in 1908 by …
Survey of London
… north-eastward of Brunswick Road to what became the Poplar gasworks and also west of Brunswick Road: it was completed … to the Commercial Gas Company, 414 which built its Poplar gasworks there, adding to the demand for workers' houses (if …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and Co. about 1900. Josiah Hardman used tar from the local gasworks at the same date. 29 Just before the First World …
A History of the County of Essex
… was located with many of the same considerations in mind. Gasworks could be and often were sited in residential areas … of isolation for them was welcome. In any case some London gasworks had no space on which to expand as gas consumption … when the City of London decided in 1865 to build a civic gasworks it should have chosen West Ham as its location, or …
A History of the County of Essex
… Gates and North Woolwich. 17 The building of Beckton gasworks had also necessitated the construction of a short …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… as cabinet-makers. 15 Other early factories included the gasworks of Tottenham and District Gas Co., opened in 1847 … south of Angel Road, east of the railway line but near the gasworks, by T. Glover & Co., who made gas meters, and by R. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Angel Road station provided convenient transport and the gasworks and Whitley's offered local employment. New roads …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Southgate and Colney Hatch Gas Light and Coke Co., whose gasworks in south-west Southgate supplied the western side of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1850 to establish a gas company in Enfield, where a gasworks had been built in Sydney Road by 1858. 60 Another …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Road in the mid-1880's to run west of the canal to the new gasworks, 68 and a minor diversion of Christchurch Street by … the two authorities, Fenton Local Board erected its own gasworks between the canal and the river Trent. 331 The …