Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,368 pages of information and 244,505 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.
1890 Oldham Corporation applied for a Provisional Order under the Electric Lighting Acts to generate and supply electricity to the town.
1894 The power station was built in Gas Street at Rhodes Bank and first supplied electricity on 20 March 1894.
1921 Oldham Corporation built Greenhill Power Station adjacent to the railway in Churchill Street East.
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