record 0944400000 - Amersham Gas Works, off Broadway
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Map
Type and Period (1)
- GAS WORKS (Demolished after 1978, 19th Century to Modern - 1851 AD to 1953 AD)
Description
Uxbridge, Wycombe and District Gas Company gasworks shown on 1st Edition 25-inch OS map and on subsequent 25-inch and 6-inch OS maps. Works expanded to northwest by 1898-1900, again by 1920-25 and to south by 1969-70. Demolished after 1978 (B1).
Construction of the gasworks started in 1855 (B2).
[In 1862] The streets and shops are lighted with gas - the works for the manufacture of which were erected in 1855, at a cost of upwards of £2,000 raised by shares of £5 each (B3).
The gas company operated as the Amersham Gas Light & Coke Co. founded in 1851, when the gasworks were constructed. It became a Ltd Co. in 1855. It was taken over by the Uxbridge & Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company in 1910. Control passed to the South-Eastern Gas Corporation in 1936. Vested in the North Thames Gas Board in 1949. Gas making ceased in 1953 and works only used horizontal retorts. Nothing visible survives, site now location of Regus Amersham (B4).
Sources (4)
- <1>SBC22670 Verbal communication: Julia Wise. 2006. Wise J (BCC) from historic 1:500, 25-inch and 6-inch Ordnance Survey maps.
- <2>SBC19607 Bibliographic reference: Julian Hunt. 2001. A History of Amersham. p37, caption to plate 46.
- <3>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. pp800-801.
- <4>SBC25438 Bibliographic reference: Professor Russell Thomas. 2020. The Manufactured Gas Industry: Volume 3 Gazetteer. p24.
Location
| Grid reference | Centred SU 95961 97326 (84m by 109m) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Jun 12 2022 3:52PM
