Carlisle Gasworks
1819 The first gasworks were erected, overseen by the engineer John Grafton
1820 Gas supply started following an Act of Parliament. Carlisle was one of the first towns in Britain to use coal gas for illumination with a plant erected by a private company.
1846 As a result of the site being required for the new railway station, a new gas works was built on a different site, Borough Mill Field.
1847 The old works were taken down (the site had been redeveloped by 1868)
1850 The Carlisle Corporation bought the works of the Carlisle Gas Light and Coke Co.[1]
By 1866 these works consisted of a HR house, purifying house and 3 GH.
1878-9 A cast- and wrought-iron GH with a concrete tank was built by J. Hepworth, engineer, at Rome Street.
1920 User of the Sentinel Steam Wagon[2]
1923 New works, designed by J. E. Blundell, the Corporation's engineer and manager, were built on a new site, Rome Street. These gasworks were built using G-W CVRs and were self-contained with new gas processing plant (Condensers, washers & purifiers). Later they included a CWG plant and CWG relief GH.
1924 The Borough Mill Field gasworks were reported as closing but they were still marked on the 1938 OS map. It is unclear as to whether the site was vested in the Northern Gas Board in 1949 or whether the site had closed prior to this.
By 1938 a new GH had been built at Rome Street.
1949 Vested in the Northern Gas Board.
c.1969 Gas production ceased when the network was switched to natural gas.
See Carlisle Gas Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- * The Manufactured Gas Industry in England: Volume 3 Gazetteer. Historic England