South Eastern Gas Board

1959. Segas Plant at Isle of Grain site, adjacent to the British Petroleum Company's Oil Refinery.

Note: This is a sub-section of the Area Gas Boards

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:-

• Arundel Gas Co

• Bexhill Corporation: Gas Department
• Billingshirst Undertaking
• Brighton, Hove and Worthing Gas Co
• British Gas Light Co
• Broadstairs Gas Co

• Charing and District Gas Works
• Chertsey Consumers Gas Co
• Cranbrook Gas Co
• Crowborough District Gas Co
• Croydon Gas Co

• Dover Gas Co

• East Grinstead Gas and Water Co
• East Surrey Gas Co
• Eastbourne Gas Co

• Faversham Gas Co
• Folkestone Gas and Coke Co

• Godalming Gas and Coke Co
• Gravesend and Milton Gas Light Co
• Guildford Gas Light and Coke Co

• Hampton Court Gas Co
• Hastings and St Leonards Gas Co
• Haywards Heath District Gas Co
• Heathfield Gas Co
• Henfield Gas and Coke Co
• Herne Bay Gas Co
• Horley District Gas Co
• Horsham Gas Co

• Isle Of Thanet Gas Light and Coke Co

• Kingston-Upon-Thames Gas Co

• Leatherhead Gas and Lighting Co
• Lewes Gas Co
• Littlehampton Gas Co

• Maidstone Gas Co
• Mid-Kent Gaslight and Coke Co

• Newhaven Gas and Coke Co

• Ramsgate Corporation: Gas Department
• Rye Gas and Coke Co
• Sheppy Gas Co
• South Eastern Gas Corporation
• South Metropolitan Gas Co
• South Suburban Gas Co

• Tenterden and District Gas Co
• Tonbridge Gas Co
• Tunbridge Wells Gas Co

• Wandsworth and District Gas Co
• Wateringbury Gas Co
• Woking District Gas Co
• Worthing Gas Light and Coke Co

1973 The Area Boards became Regions of the British Gas Corporation

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