Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Isle of Thanet Gas Light and Coke Co

From Graces Guide

1824 Incorporated by Act of Parliament to provide lighting for the towns of Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs.

1877 The company sold half of its undertaking (that in Ramsgate and St Lawrence) to Ramsgate Local Board and continued to operate the remainder of the undertaking from King St, Margate.

1949 On nationalisation the undertaking became part of the Thanet Group of the Kent County Division of SEGB.

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