Catalogue description CITY OF LONDON GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY

City of London Gas Light and Coke Company

In 1813 William Knight started a private undertaking in Fetter Lane off Fleet Street. In 1814 he moved his works to Dorset St. in Blackfriars, after a prosecution for 'endangering the health of the inhabitants' and formed the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company which (after a failed merger with Gas Light and Coke Co. in 1816) gained statutory powers and was incorporated under the City of London Gas Act 1817 to supply the cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark.

In 1819 the City of London GLCC took over the Aldgate Gas Light and Coke Company closing their works at Castle Alley immediately and their Goulston Square works in 1823. By 1820 the City of London GLCC had built a new works on river front land at the junction of Dorset St. and New St. The original Dorset works was demolished in 1821 to become the new work's coal store.

In 1870 to company was taken over by the Gas Light and Coke Co. and the Blackfriars works was closed down in 1873.