Catalogue description BRENTFORD GAS COMPANY

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Brentford Gas Company

The Brentford Gas Company was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1821. Its main works lay on either side of Brentford High Street, with a long frontage to the River Thames. Due to its location, expansion of the works was limited. In 1868 the company built a new works adjacent to Montague Road, in Southall. The company took over the Norwood (Middlesex) undertaking in 1870 and closed down the works. In 1915 Brentford Gas Co. took over the Staines and Egham District Gas & Co., whose works were at Staines and were kept operational, and the Sunbury Gas Consumers Co., whose works it closed. In 1924 Harrow and Stanmore Gas Co. was absorbed followed by Richmond Gas Co. in 1925 whose works remained operational until 1933.

The Brentford Gas Company was taken over by the Gas Light & Coke Co. in 1926. Between 1929 and 1935 the whole of the Brentford works were rebuilt. The Brentford works were still in operation by 1957.