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Oswestry Electric Light Co

From Graces Guide

1895 September: Electricity supply started[1]

1899 The fourth annual meeting of the company was held. Mr A. Wynne Corrie, chairman of the company, presided, and there were present : Messrs E. Bremner Smith, managing director, G. Perks. Josiah Jones, and R. Rhys Lloyd ...[2]

1899 Oswestry Town Council raised a loan to buy the electricity works[3]

1936 The tall chimney of the Oswestry electricity works was demolished.[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Wrexham Advertiser 25 April 1896
  2. ↑ Wrexham Advertiser 13 May 1899
  3. ↑ Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser 16 December 1899
  4. ↑ Shrewsbury Chronicle 06 November 1936
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