Catalogue description NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND GATESHEAD GAS COMPANY

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Reference: NO/NWG
Title: NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND GATESHEAD GAS COMPANY
Description:

Record relate to administration, finance, law, estate & property, production, security & defence, employment, marketing and retail

Date: 1823-1962
Held by: National Gas Archive, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead Gas Company

Physical description: 11 Series
Subjects:
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland
  • Gateshead, Co. Durham
  • Gas industry
Administrative / biographical background:

The Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead Union Gaslight Company was formed in 1838 by the union of two pre-existing companies - one company established for lighting with gas the Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and neighbourhood and the other for lighting with gas the Borough of Gateshead in the county of Durham. The Elswick gasworks first opened in 1864. The company was dissolved and incorporated as the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead Gas Company in 1864. By AoP in 1896 and 1901 the company was empowered to buy land and construct works and in 1916 a further AoP allowed the company to extend its limits to meet demand in newly urbanised areas. In 1924 NWG took over the Walker and Wallsend Union Gas Company and the Chester-Le-Street Gas Company Ltd, followed in 1928 with the absorption of the Tynemouth Gas Company. Profit sharing was introduced as part of an AoP in 1929. In 1937 they took over the South Sheilds Gas Company and in 1940 the Morpeth Gas Light Company (1902) Ltd. On nationalisation the undertaking vested in the NGB.

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