Monument record 1533800000 - 26 High Street

Summary

Site of late nineteenth century private gasworks

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Type and Period (2)

  • GAS WORKS (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1920 AD?)
  • GAS HOLDER? (19th Century - 1800 AD? to 1899 AD?)

Description

James Copcutt, gas engineer built a gasworks to light his own premises. Information from Tony Marks.
Survival not known (B1).
1854, 1883 and 1899 trade directories record James Copcutt at 26 New Road (now High Street). Advert in the Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply and Sanitary Improvement of January 24th 1865, for Copcutt & Co Gas Engineers, Gas-Fitters & Contractors: 'James Copcutt, 20 years practical and consulting Engineer, advises on all matter of Gas Lighting and Hot-Water Works. Sole inventor of the Double-Power Retort' (B2).
Location of premises at 26 New Road possibly at what is now 28 High Street. The large property at 26 High Street is shown on 1877 and 1879 OS mapping as a garden, and the post office was built here sometime between 1883 and 1899, so presumably James Copcutt's premises must have been next door (B3).

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC25438 Bibliographic reference: Professor Russell Thomas. 2020. The Manufactured Gas Industry: Volume 3 Gazetteer. p33.
  • <2>SBC25510 Verbal communication: Julia Wise (BCC). 2021. Information from historic trade directories and journals.
  • <3>SBC25431 Verbal communication: Julia Wise (BCC). 2021. Information from historic OS mapping and aerial photographs.

Location

Grid reference SP 8209 1380 (point) NGR to 28 High Street
Civil Parish AYLESBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 3 2021 9:45PM

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