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.
Some of the original grey lamp posts survive, having been converted to electricity.
See Cottenham in Focus (2002)
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