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1887 Ordnance Survey map detail showing fields, a gas works with two gasometers, and a cemetery marked with reference numbers.

Cottenham OS map 1887

34 Lambs Lane, Gasworks, Cottenham

History of the Gas Works

1862 Gas Works built

1864 Gas Company house built. Gas lighting installed from the gas House to the church.

1865 Walter Rhodes manager of gas Works

1880 Walter Rhodes left

late 1880s: James Coe manager, but he left to become a greengrocer.

1891 William ‘Gassy’ Moore took over, staying for 32 years.

1932 Chesterton RDC bought the Cottenham Gas and water Company.

A lane leads past brick buildings with tiled roofs and tall chimneys, beside a white fence and a grassy verge with trees.

34 lambs Lane, Gas Works (photo E Smith)

Some of the original grey lamp posts survive, having been converted to electricity.

See Cottenham in Focus (2002)

 

Building dates

  • Built 1900–1929
Source for this date
  • Built 1900–1929: EPC construction age band: 1900–1929

Projects

  • Cottenham

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