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Catalogue description PENISTONE AND DISTRICT GAS COMPANY
This record is held by National Gas Archive
| Reference: | EM:PED |
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| Title: | PENISTONE AND DISTRICT GAS COMPANY |
| Description: |
Administration and legal records |
| Date: | 1857-1921 |
| Held by: | National Gas Archive, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
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| Physical description: | 5 Files |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Mr Edwin Unwin, a shareholder and auditor for the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Co first promoted the idea of a gas company in Penistone and subsequently obtained some land from the railway company to use as a works. Unwin became the first managing director and it was decided to gain statutory power for the company. The Peniston Thurlestone and Oxspring Gas Act 1858 gave such power while declaring the limits of supply to be those places named in the company name. The supply limits were extended by the Penistone and District Gas Order, which also changed the company name to the Penistone and District Gas Co, to include additionally Thurgoland and parts of Hoylandswaine and Hunshelf. On Nationalisation in 1949 the company became part of the Sheffield sub-division of the Sheffield and Rotherham division of the EMGB. |
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