Sunderland Gas Works

1824 'A public dinner, to celebrate the lighting of Sunderland with Gas, took place at Key's, the Golden Lion Inn, in that town, on Tuesday last....who in proposing the health of Mr West, eulogised in becoming terms the ability and the indefatigable exertions that gentleman, evinced in the erection the Sunderland Gas Works, which had been begun and rendered complete in little more than four months, under his direction.'

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