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 167,394 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.

Hammersmith Electricity Works

From Graces Guide

1893 Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council Electricity Undertaking was authorised.

1895-6 Erection of Fulham Palace Road Generating Station.

1897 Electricity supply began.

1911 a scheme for hiring wiring and fittings was offered to shop premises.

From 1916 bulk supplies of electricity from the Borough were purchased by Chiswick Electricity Supply Corporation Limited and later Brentford and Chiswick Borough Council.

1920 the interconnection of generating stations was agreed between Hammersmith, Fulham and Battersea Undertakings.


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Sources of Information

  • [1] National Archives