Town Gas Works
The Town Gas works, run by the Wymondham Gas and Coke Company Ltd., opened in 1848 in Station Road near the Fairland (just east of the old A11 road).
Wymondham Gas Works in about 1895.
Gas was made in the shed on the right, by heating coal, and was stored in a gasometer (which is down in this picture) behind the house on the left.
A second gasometer was added later. Coke and tar was sold at the Gas Works. As well as supplying domestic and business customers, the Gas Works provided street lighting in the town centre in the early part of the twentieth century. The local company was absorbed by the British Gas Light and Coke Company Ltd., and gas production ended at Wymondham when a supply pipeline was installed from the Norwich Gas Works.
The natural gas distribution point on the old Gas works site in Station Road in about 1985 The original Wymondham site is still used as a natural gas distribution point following the change over to North Sea gas on 24th November 1969.
Acknowledgements : Philip Yaxley and others.
The Town Gas works, run by the Wymondham Gas and Coke Company Ltd., opened in 1848 in Station Road near the Fairland (just east of the old A11 road).
Wymondham Gas Works in about 1895. Gas was made in the shed on the right, by heating coal, and was stored in a gasometer (which is down in this picture) behind the house on the left.
A second gasometer was added later. Coke and tar was sold at the Gas Works. As well as supplying domestic and business customers, the Gas Works provided street lighting in the town centre in the early part of the twentieth century. The local company was absorbed by the British Gas Light and Coke Company Ltd., and gas production ended at Wymondham when a supply pipeline was installed from the Norwich Gas Works.
The natural gas distribution point on the old Gas works site in Station Road in about 1985 The original Wymondham site is still used as a natural gas distribution point following the change over to North Sea gas on 24th November 1969. Acknowledgements : Philip Yaxley and others.