Low Street, gas works
Low Street, gas works
HER Number
13619
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Low Street, gas works
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
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
In the early 19th century the Sunderland Improvement Commission authorised the supply of gas lighting for some of the town's streets to replace oil. The gas works were established in 1824 by the Sunderland Gas Light Company, on the east side of Low Street at the bottom of Beggar's Bank. In 1831 the Subscription Gas Corporation took over the gas works.
Easting
440400
Northing
557400
Grid Reference
NZ440400557400
Sources
Dagmar Richardson, TWM Archaeology, 2011, The Former Hendon Gas Works Site, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Desk Based Assessment; A Brett, 1990, Sunderland People and Places; G. Cookson, 2010, Sunderland Building a City