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  • ...by the [[South Metropolitan Gas Company]]. Under the [[South Metropolitan Gas Company]], the works at Rotherhithe were “extended to 6.5 acres including ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...embezzlement by an employee finally compelled the company to sell to the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] in 1870. The works were almost entirely rebuilt in 1 ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...e Commercial Gas Light & Coke Company was founded in 1837. The company had gas works in 1839 at Harford St., Stepney and on Leven Rd, Poplar in 1878. In 1949 the Commercial Gas Company was taken over by the North Thames Gas Board (The National Archives).
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  • ...Taken over by [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] in 1883. The [[Vauxhall Gardens Gas Works]] were demolished. ...ke Company]]. In 1883 the London Gas Light Company was taken over by the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]].
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  • ...by the [[South Metropolitan Gas Company]]. Under the [[South Metropolitan Gas Company]], the works at Rotherhithe were “extended to 6.5 acres including ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...roportions. They can now make in twenty-four hours 7,000,000 cubic feet of gas, which means that they can carbonise 700 tons of coal per day, and in winte ...her gas works, including the [[Equitable Gas Company]] and the [[Consumers Gas Company]] in 1885. The company expanded into tar works and chemical works m
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  • ...ational Archives). In 1868 the Gas Light & Coke Company established a new gas works at Beckton. ...gas works companies. "As a result of amalgamation, the Company's output of gas increased dramatically from 1,285,602 cubic feet in 1869, 9,934,489 in 1877
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  • ...In 1880 The Phoenix Gas Company was taken over by the [[South Metropolitan Gas Company]] (The National Archives). ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...coal gas diminished, and the discovery and use of natural gas put the coal gas industry out of business (Pedroche 2013). ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[ http://marysgasbook.blogspot.ca/2009/08/greenwich-railway-gas-works.html
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  • ...embezzlement by an employee finally compelled the company to sell to the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] in 1870. The works were almost entirely rebuilt in 1 ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...re were originally four holders, later replaced with one large one. The [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] took over the company in 1876 and closed the works i ...d within a few years had become a serious threat to the dominance of the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]].
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  • ...embezzlement by an employee finally compelled the company to sell to the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] in 1870. The works were almost entirely rebuilt in 1 ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...the bridge and the Kennington Oval gas holders were owned by the [[Phoenix Gas Company]]. ....google.ca/books?id=xCxxAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT154&ots=3PCQr0QTXz&dq=nine%20elms%20gas%20works&pg=PT153#v=onepage&q&f=false
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  • ...ratford and the West Ham GC's Chairman, Joseph Lister Godlee, joined the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]]'s Court in 1909" (The National Archives).
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  • ...egents Canal. Independent Gas Light & Coke Company was taken over by the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] in 1876 (The National Archives). ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...ht & Coke Company]] and the [[East London Gas Light Company]]. http://marysgasbook.blogspot.ca/2009/08/more-fraud-in-wapping.html ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...een the Regents Canal and the railway. The company was taken over by the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] in 1872” (The National Archives). ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...ext door sometime in 1831-1835 and then was taken over by the [[Commercial Gas Company]] in 1875. ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...he Gas Works were built in 1851 (Pedroche). Under the [[South Metropolitan Gas Company]], the works at Rotherhithe were “extended to 6.5 acres including ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...areas of the Strand, Fleet Street and Blackfriars. Amalgamation with the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] finally came in 1871” (The National Archives). ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...on the south bank of the River Thames. The company was taken over by the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] in 1883. The works covered 20 acres (8 ha) and once ...oyal Mail depot and other commercial units." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Light_and_Coke_Company#Nine_Elms
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  • |has description="In 1870 the company built its fourth gas works at Bromley, St Leonards Road, it became operational in 1873." (The Na ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...of the river was the [[South Metropolitan Gas Company]]'s [[East Greenwich Gas Works]] on the Greenwich Peninsula. ...North Thames Gas Board. After closure the residual site passed to British Gas and Transco.
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  • ...ethods and for a while had the largest holders in existence. In 1911 the [[Gas Light & Coke Company]] built its first workshop and transport depot at Fulh ...in 1830 and reputed to be the oldest gasholder in the World. The Imperial Gasworks' neoclassical office building was completed in 1857 and a laboratory d
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  • |has description=The Bankside gas works were built in 1814 as the first gas works south of the Thames (The National Archives). ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...bankment of the Thames. They produced and distributed both coal and cannel gas. The company supplied Belgravia and areas of the Strand, Fleet Street and B ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • |has description="the gasworks, whose premises were gradually expanded westward until they eventually ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...med the Vauxhall Water Company to avoid confusion with the two other water companies serving southern London. At the same time, the company acquired some of ...ompany, including land, buildings and machinery, was sold to the [[Phoenix Gas Company]]. " http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/southlondonwater.html
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  • ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[ http://thevictorianist.blogspot.ca/2010/11/london-gas-works-1895.html
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  • ...orough of Hornsey. The company came under the control of the South Eastern Gas Corporation in 1939. The works continued to operate until 1957 when they we ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...a nice garden (also a grazing ground for goats) between his house and No.4 gasholder. An early recollection, perhaps the earliest, is that of seeing work ...cquired (about half the present area) and what was then considered a large gasholder (No.8) had been erected. Such was Thames Street when I was a small bo
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  • ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[ |produced=Gas, Tar, Coke, Ammonia, Sulphur
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  • ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[ http://marysgasbook.blogspot.ca/2009/08/stpancras-works-and-its-famous-holders.html
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  • |has description="Gas manufacture at the company's works on Clarendon Road, did not commence unti ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • |has description=The Poplar gas works on Leven Road were opened in 1878. ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...Began producing coal gas in September 1813 as the first operational public gas works in the world. ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...rnal railway was built to more easily transfer coal around the large site. Gas production stopped in 1945 and the works were demolished in 1952. ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...roportions. They can now make in twenty-four hours 7,000,000 cubic feet of gas, which means that they can carbonise 700 tons of coal per day, and in winte ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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  • ...h Sea gas in 1976 rendered oil gasification uneconomical, however, and the gas works were largely demolished over the next ten years. (source?) ...gas, which was then purified and put into the gas holders until needed for consumer use to light streets and buildings. The process also created [[coke]], [[
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