Gas Works
Gas Works
HER Number
4377
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gas Works
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Power Generation Site
Site Type: Specific
Gas Works
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Gas Works marked on Oliver 1832 map and a building is shown on the same site on the 1844 Oliver map. Later the site becomes used as a manure works. Built in Pipeweelgate by 1819. By 1821 Gateshead's new street lamps were supplied by gas, although oil was still in use in 1830.
Easting
425020
Northing
563440
Grid Reference
NZ425020563440
Sources
<< HER 4377 >> T.Oliver, 1831, A Perambulatory Survey, in A picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp 137-138
Thomas Oliver, 1844, Plan of The Borough of Newcastle....together with Gateshead
Thomas Oliver, 1831
Thomas Oliver, 1844, Plan of The Borough of Newcastle....together with Gateshead
Thomas Oliver, 1831