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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.

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)

 

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