Sunderland Gas Works
The Sunderland Gas Light Co's gasworks
1824 'A public dinner, to celebrate the lighting of Sunderland with Gas, took place at Key's, the Golden Lion Inn, in that town, on Tuesday last....who in proposing the health of Mr West, eulogised in becoming terms the ability and the indefatigable exertions that gentleman, evinced in the erection the Sunderland Gas Works, which had been begun and rendered complete in little more than four months, under his direction.'[1]
1831 the Sunderland Subscription Gas Light Company took over the gasworks
1854 Advertised for sale[2]
The Sunderland Gas Co's gasworks
1860 New gasworks site purchased by the Sunderland Gas Co in Commercial Road, Hendon, close to the North Sea and adjacent to the railway. Construction of the gasworks commenced.
1860 The Gas Company advertised for tenders for the Construction of a large GASHOLDER TANK, 125 feet diameter, and about 28 feet deep, and other ...[3]
1861 Operations are about to be commenced for the erection of the Sunderland Gas Company's new works at Hendon, the contract for which has been let to Mr. Tone, of Stockton Road. [4]
1894 A 2nd retort house was added at the Commercial Road, Hendon site.
1909 An example of Dr. Bueb's vertical retort, which had been widely installed on the Continent, was under construction at Sunderland[5] (also referred to as the Dessau Vertical Retort).
1969 Sunderland Hendon Gas Works is to close down.[6]