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A CARBURETTED WATER GAS PLANT
EXPANSION AND
REORGANISATION
Professor Russell Thomas presents the fifth instalment of a new booklet,
serialised exclusively for Gi, which has been produced for National Grid
Property (NGP) to record the rich history of gas in Norwich. Here, he describes
how one man reorganised the city’s two main gasworks
y 1865, the British Gas Light five gasholders that together could originally built its own gasworks to
Company recorded that their store 700,000 cubic feet of gas, 220 light the Thorpe station and associated
two gasworks, one at Bishop fireclay retorts and 45 miles of mains, buildings. It closed its small gasworks
Bridge and the second at St supplying 1,000 street lights. in 1867 in preference of a cheaper
B Martin at Palace, possessed The Great Eastern Railway had gas supply from the British Gas Light
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