Catalogue description HULL UNDERTAKING-BRITISH GAS LIGHT COMPANY

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Kingston upon Hull Gas Light Company, 1821-1898

Hull Corporation, 1898-1934

British Gas Light Company, 1823-1949

• Gas industry

The Kingston-upon-Hull Gas Light Company was formed in 1821 and an AoP was obtained in that year. The authorised area of supply was the 'old town' of Hull and the townships of Myton and Sculcoates. The undertaking was founded as an oil gas company. By 1828, the oil gas process had proved uneconomic and John Malam was invited to convert the works from coal to oil and to operate it under a lease. This continued until Malam's death in 1842 when the company took over direct management of the undertaking. In 1898, the undertaking was sold to the Hull Corporation. A bulk supply of gas was negotiated and the works closed (the works site was wanted for a new town hall). The British Gas Light Company (established 1823 in London) set up an undertaking in the Sculcoates area of Hull in 1824. It obtained its first AoP in 1858. In 1902, the undertaking purchased the Cottingham Gas Company and in 1934 purchased the gas undertaking from the Hull Corporation. A third gas company, the East Hull Gas Co (formerly the Sutton, Southcoates and Drypool GC) operated alongside the British GLC [See NE:EAH]. In 1949, the British GLC, Hull vested in the Eastern Gas Board - where the majority of British GLC undertakings were located - and transferred to NEGB in Jun 1951.

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