Barnet District Gas and Water Co
1856 A gasworks in Barnet privately owned by C.T. Holcombe of London, was put up for sale with other gasworks he owned.
1867 The East Barnet Gas & Water Co. was formed.
1868-9 The Potters Bar Gas & Coke Company was set up, and built the Potters Bar Gasworks on land behind the Baptist Chapel in Barnet Road.
1872 A bill for the amalgamation of several small companies, the East Barnet Gas & Water Co, the Barnet Consumers Gas Co. Ltd. and the Potters Bar Gas & Coke Company Ltd, was put before Parliament. This formed the Barnet District Gas & Water Co. Ltd.
1876 A new gas main was laid from East Barnet to Potters Bar, and the original gasworks there closed in 1879.
Further Special Acts for the Barnet District Gas & Water Co. were raised in 1883, 1887 and 1904.
By 1913 a rail siding had been built into the gasworks.
1914 Directors : A. H. Baynes (Chairman), J. W. L. Glaisher (Deputy-Chairman), J. L. Chapman, A. Lass, F. Lennard, and A. F. Phillips. Engineer and Manager: T. H. Martin. Secretary and Accountant: E. W. Drew. Office: Gracechurch Street, E.C.
1930 Detailed description, by John Francis Haseldine, of an interesting steam turbine-driven deep hole pumping system supplied by W. H. Allen, Sons and Co for the Roestock Pumping Station (Roestock Waterworks) of the Barnet District Gas and Water Co. 'The choice of the particular type of prime mover to be used in a pumping plant is one which has often to be considered by water engineers. The selection of steam, town gas, electricity, or oil, must, to a certain extent, depend on local conditions. It is, therefore, not possible to recommend any particular type of power as applicable to all cases. In the case under consideration, the Roestock pumping station of the Barnet District Gas and Water Company, neither town gas nor electricity was available, but the station was already provided with a boiler house and chimney, the existing steam plant at the station being a reciprocating plant operated by a compound condensing steam engine. Oil was considered, but, owing to the fact that oil is at present an imported product, and also to the fact that steam was available, the final investigations were taken on the lines of steam as a prime mover. The pump was to be installed in a borehole of a maximum diameter of 36 in., and the pump was to be capable of raising water at the rate of 1,500,000 gallons per 24 hours from the borehole, at a depth therein of 200 ft. below the ground level, and discharging into the mains of the company against a head, including friction, of 350 ft. above ground level or a total maximum head of 550 ft. ....'[1] [2]
1949 Vested in the Eastern Gas Board
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Manufactured Gas Industry in England: Volume 3 Gazetteer. Historic England