Biggar Gasworks. General view from East.
SC 358461
Description Biggar Gasworks. General view from East.
Date 9/3/1973
Catalogue Number SC 358461
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of LA 1223
Scope and Content Biggar Gasworks, Biggar, Lanarkshire Biggar Gasworks, a typical small town gas works, was founded in 1839 by Biggar Gas Light Company. In 1911 it used 400 tons of coal yearly to serve 320 consumers and over 100 street lights. Biggar, Gasworks Road, Gasworks / Public Services / Gas Supply / Gasworks /<br />NMRS Other Coal-gas was first piped to customers from a central gasworks in London in 1812. Despite its fumes, gas soon replaced oil for commercial lighting because it allowed longer working hours and gaslit buildings were safer and cheaper to insure. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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