Eastern Gas Board

1948 One of 12 Area Gas Boards established by the government to operate the nationalised gas industry, each a separate body with its own management structure. Companies and other bodies nationalised and included in this area:
- Aldeburg Gas Light Co
- Ampthill Gas and Coke Co
- Aspley Guise and Woburn Sands Gas Co
- Attleborough Gas Co
- Aylsham Undertaking - British Gas Light Co
- Barnet District Gas and Water Co
- Baldock Gas Light and Coke Co
- Bedford District Gas Co
- Bedford District Gas Co
- Berkhampstead Gas Co
- Beccles Water and Gas Co
- British Gas Light Company (Central Office)
- Bishop's Stortford Epping and District Gas Co
- Boxmoor, Two Waters and Crouchfield Gas and Coke Co
- Braintree and Bocking Gas Co
- Brightlingsea Gas and Coke Co
- Bury St. Edmund's Gas Co
- Cambridge University and Town Gaslight Co
- Chelmsford Corporation Co
- Chesham and District Gas Co
- Chatteris Undertaking - British Gas Light Co
- Colchester Gas Co
- Cromer Gas Co
- Dunstable Gas and Water Co
- Earls Colne Gas Light and Coke Co
- East Dereham Urban District Council Co
- Ely Gas and Electricity Co
- Enfield Gas Co
- Felixstowe Gas Light Co
- Framlingham Gas Light Co
- Gorleston and Southtown Gas Co
- Great Yarmouth Gas Co
- Harpenden District Gas Co
- Harwich Gas and Coke Co
- Hadleigh Gas Consumers Co
- Halesworth Gas Co
- Hemel Hempstead District Gas Co
- Hitchin Gas Co
- Halstead Gas Co
- Hertford Gas Light Co
- Huntingdon and Godmanchester Gas and Coke Co
- Ipswich Gas Light Co
- Kelvedon and Coggleshall Gas Co (Trustees Of The Late Worthington Church Trading As)
- King's Lynn Gas Co
- Lavenham Gas Works Co
- Leiston Gas Co
- Littleport Gas Co
- Loddon Gas Consumers Co
- Long Melford Gas and Coal Co
- Lowestoft Water and Gas Co
- Luton Gas Co
- March Gas and Coke Co
- Maldon Gas Light Co
- Markyate Gas Co
- Mundesley and Holt Gas Co
- Newmarket Gas Co
- Needham Market Gas Light Co
- Norwich Undertaking - British Gas Light Co
- North Walsham Gas Light and Coke Co
- Peterborough Gas Co
- Potton Gas Co
- Ramsey Gas Co
- Redbourn Gas Co
- Royston Gas Co
- Sandy Gas Co
- Sheringham Gas and Water Co
- Soham and District Gas Co
- Southwold Gas Light Co
- Stowmarket Gas Light and Coke Co
- St. Ives (Hunts) Gas Co
- St. Margaret's Gas Co
- Southgate and District Gas Co
- Sudbury Gas and Coke Co
- Swaffham Gas Light and Coke Co
- Saxmundham Gas Co
- Tottenham and District Gas Co
- Watford and St. Albans Gas Co
- Whittlesey Gas Co
- Witham Gas Light and Coke Co
- Wisbech Lighting Co
- Woburn Gas Light and Coke Co
- Wyvenhoe Gas Co
1973 The Area Boards became Regions of the British Gas Corporation.
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] National Archives