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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… they embrace the manufacture of steam-engines, boilers, gas-meters, coach-springs, axles, and other coach ironwork, … situated between West Bromwich and Great-Bridge are some gas-works, erected under an act passed in 1825, at a cost of … by a proprietary named the Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Company. This establishment, which (out of London) is …
Survey of London
… Portman, 191421. Sir Robert Gardiner, kt., chairman of gas companies, 19225. No. 86 Brook Street No. 86 Brook Street …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… malthouse in Queen Street c. 1978. The firm made domestic gas fires and employed thirteen people in 1984. 12 Clay … to give grants for new equipment and improvements. 10 Gas was supplied from 1844 by the Ironbridge Gas Light Co., and by 1847 street lighting in Broseley was …
Survey of London
… back. 15 Both the road and the wharf itself were lit by gas supplied by the Poplar Gas Company. Thomas Edge of Great Peter Street, Westminster, … was concerned about possible pollution and demanded that gas-washing plant be installed. It refused to be convinced by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… streets are paved but not flagged, and are lighted with gas. The trade chiefly consists in the sorting of wool, the …
Survey of London
… Samuel Clegg, junior, the author of a treatise on coal-gas and the only son of Samuel Clegg, the inventor and gas engineer. 119 John Greville Fennell, artist and angler, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… principal roads are spacious, well paved, and lighted with gas: the houses are in general modern, having been built …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the neighbourhood. The streets are paved, and lighted with gas, under an act obtained in 1819 for the improvement of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… south of Queen Street, Chasetown, in 1870 by the Chasetown Gas Co. Ltd. It remained in use until c. 1952. 387 When … Terrace. Whereas the streets of Chasetown had been lit by gas, Chase Terrace and Boney Hay had depended mainly on oil …
A History of the County of Stafford
… brigade; sanitary; highways, lighting and improvement; gas; Wedgwood Institute; cemetery. 24 Burslem Borough formed … covered over in 1924 when another was built beside it. 84 Gas lighting was supplied in Burslem town from the end of … the contract to the newly formed Burslem and Tunstall Gas Company, which had a works in Waterloo Road and opened …