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  • This photograph shows the engineer and manager of the Llandudno Gas Works closing down the valve on the exhausters when the Works finally ceased production, over a century after the original works commenced production. The supervisor of the works is also shown in the photograph.
Llandudno Gas Works, 1955
Aerial photograph of Bryn Du Gas Works, Hirwaun, 1992
A wood gas burner being heaved into place at the Centre for Alternative Technology
  • Photographed by Geoff Charles.
Examining a gas canister after the electricity supply was cut off in the village of Llanfachreth, 31 January 1957
  • By 1870 most houses were lit by gas. Gas pipes ran to a plaster 'rose' in the centre of the ceiling and to 'S' shaped brackets on the walls. The light would be produced by the gas flame which would burn surrounded by a glass shade. The hanging lamps seen here contained a chain switch to light and extinguish them, but to light the wall lamps a tap had to be turned and the gas lit with a match.
Gas lights, Chepstow, late 19th century
  • Gas producers in 1890.
Photograph Album presented to J. H. Darby, Brymbo Steelworks, 1908 [image 14 of 46]