Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 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.

Barugh Power Station

From Graces Guide

near Barnsley

1913 Plant commissioned by Yorkshire Electric Power Co fuelled by gas from the coke ovens of the Old Silkstone Collieries[1]

c.1919 Construction of plant for utilization of coke oven gas under the boilers.

1929 Selected for the Mid-East England Electricity Scheme[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Not So Merry Wakefield, By Kate Taylor, Coral M. P. Taylor
  2. The Times Jan. 19, 1929