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Gas in Bramham

Though it is thought that a mill in the area of Bramham, Clifford or Boston Spa had gas lighting from about 1820, the earliest documentary evidence is when Dr Haigh installed gas to light Bramham College about 1843.
He soon found a way of maximising his investment by providing gas in bulk to the Bramham Consumers' Gas Company, formed in 1860 with the object of supplying the village with gas lighting. The company a little later became part of the Northallerton Gas Consumers' Company.
Eventually in 1897 the company built its own gas works on the Wetherby (A1) Road, just north of the village, with a house for the manager. During the 1908‑9 period it is recorded that `slot consumers increased from 27 to 67'.
After much hard bargaining the Bramham undertaking was sold in 1909 to the Boston Spa Gas Company for £720. Within a year they had sold the land to a director for £220, dismantled the gas apparatus, and closed down the operation, continuing to supply Bramham from their own gas works.
One of the Boston Spa Company's First World War economies was to stop the free supply of gas to the lamp outside the village institute. There is no record of other philanthropic street lamps, but the two paid for by the rate payers cost £2 a year each. The supply of coal gas to Bramham ended in October 1970, following the modification of gas appliances to burn natural gas.
Meanwhile the manager's house at the site of the A1 gasworks was dismantled on the building of the first by‑pass.  

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