Low Lights Gas Works
Low Lights Gas Works
HER Number
5487
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Low Lights Gas Works
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
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
The gas works are shown on Woods plan of 1826. They were established by the North Shields Gas Company in 1820. The works had two gasometers, a coal house and two buildings each housing 18 retorts. Coal was burned in the retorts to produce gas, and the resulting coke, stored in the coke house on the eastern side of the yard, was sold for fuel. The gasworks is shown in detail on a manuscript plan dated 1854 (NRO 1147/B1).
Easting
436260
Northing
568670
Grid Reference
NZ436260568670
Sources
<< HER 5487 >> Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2003, Fish Park, North Shields, Archaeological Assessment
J. Rook, 1827, Plan of North Shields and Tynemouth
J. Wood, 1826, A Plan of the towns of North Shields and Tynemouth
1854, manuscript plan, Northumberland Records Office, 1147/B1
J. Rook, 1827, Plan of North Shields and Tynemouth
J. Wood, 1826, A Plan of the towns of North Shields and Tynemouth
1854, manuscript plan, Northumberland Records Office, 1147/B1