Northern Gas Board
Former UK state-owed utility
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The Northern Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in Durham, Northumberland and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and the North Riding of Yorkshire.
| State-owned utility overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1 May 1949 |
| Dissolved | 1 January 1973 |
| Type | Gas board |
| Status | Dissolved |
| Headquarters | Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
It was established on 1 May 1949 under the terms of the Gas Act 1948, and dissolved in 1973 when it became a region of the newly formed British Gas Corporation, British Gas Northern, as a result of the Gas Act 1972.
Existing gas suppliers taken over
Under the Gas (Allocation of Undertakings to Area Boards and Gas Council) Order 1949 (SI 1949/742), the North Western Gas Board took over existing local authority and privately owned gas production and supply utilities in its area:[1]
- Alnwick Gas Company
- Alston Gas Company
- Amble and Warkworth Gas Light and Coke Company
- Annfield Plain and District Gas Company
- Appleby Corporation
- Aspatria Gas Light Company
- Barnard Castle Gas Company
- Bedale Gas Company
- Berwick and Tweedmouth Gas Light Company
- Bishop Auckland District Gas Company
- Blyth Gas Company Brampton Gas Light and Coke Company
- Brotton Gas Light and Coke Company
- Carlisle Corporation
- Cockermouth Urban District Council
- Cleveland Gas Company
- City of Durham Gas Company
- Corbridge Gas Company
- Crook Gas Company
- Darlington Corporation
- Ennerdale Rural District Council
- Guisborough Gas Company
- Haltwhistle Gas Light Company
- Hartlepool Gas and Water Company
- Hexham Gas Company
- Houghton-le-Spring District Gas Company
- Keswick Gas Company
- Kirby Stephen Gas Company
- Maryport Urban District Council
- Masham Rural District Council
- Middlesbrough Corporation
- Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Gas Company
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead Gas Company
- Northallerton Consumers' Gas Company
- Penrith Urban District Council
- Redcar Corporation
- Richmond (Yorks) Corporation
- Rothbury Gas and Coke Company
- Seascale Gas Company
- Shotley Bridge and Consett District Gas Company
- South Bank and Normanby Gaslight and Coke Company
- Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Company
- Stanhope Gas and Water Company
- Stanley and District Gas Company
- Stockton-on-Tees Corporation
- Sunderland Gas Company
- Tudhoe and Sunderland Bridge Gas Company
- Whitehaven United Gas Company
- Wigton Gas Light and Coke Company
- Wigton Rural District Council
- Wooler Gas Company
- Workington Corporation
