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The North Eastern Gas Board (NEGB), later North East Gas (NeGas) was a state-owned utility providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in modern-day West Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire.
File:The Gas Club obviously on Gasworks Street - geograph.org.uk - 779523.jpg, The Gas Club in Huddersfield; a social club for employees (seen in 2008).
File:Gas Conversion 1973 Barkerend Road Bradford - geograph.org.uk - 363857.jpg, Conversion to natural gas in Bradford, 1973.
File:Leeds Gas Showroom, Eastgate, Leeds (11th August 2015).JPG, The NEGB's former showrooms on Eastgate, Leeds; now under private ownership (seen in 2014).
File:Northern Gas Networks Plant - Holmes Street - geograph.org.uk - 986185.jpg, Infrastructure at the former Meadow Lane gas works, Leeds (seen in 2008)
File:Gas Holder - off Meanwood Road - geograph.org.uk - 580939.jpg, A gas storage site in
The North Eastern Gas Board (NEGB), later North East Gas (NeGas) was a state-owned utility providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in modern-day West Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire.
History
The North East of England came instead under theNorthern Gas Board
The area gas boards were created under the provisions of the Gas Act 1948 enacted by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government. The Act nationalised the British gas industry and also created the Gas Council.
History
From the early 19th century ...
. Modern day South Yorkshire (with the exception of the most northern parts of the Barnsley and Doncaster boroughs was also never under its remit; instead under the East Midlands Gas Board
The area gas boards were created under the provisions of the Gas Act 1948 enacted by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government. The Act nationalised the British gas industry and also created the Gas Council.
History
From the early 19th century ...
.
It was established on 1 May 1949 under the terms of the Gas Act 1948, and dissolved in 1973 when it became a region of the newly formed British Gas Corporation, British Gas North Eastern, as a result of the Gas Act 1972. The board's headquarters were in Leeds in buildings which later became administrative buildings for British Gas which were demolished in 2016.
The infrastructure of the former North Eastern Gas Board now forms the Southern region of the region of Northern Gas Networks
Northern Gas Networks Limited is the British company responsible for distributing gas to homes and businesses across Yorkshire, the North East and northern Cumbria, England. Northern Gas Networks Limited is one of eight gas distribution networks ...
.
Gallery
Sheepscar
Sheepscar is an inner city district of Leeds in West Yorkshire England, lying to the north east of Leeds city centre. The district is in the City of Leeds Metropolitan Council. It is overlooked by the tower blocks of Little London and Lovel ...
, Leeds (seen in 2007)
File:Full of gas needs a paint job - geograph.org.uk - 1115274.jpg, A gas storage site in Bridlington (seen in 2009)
File:British Gas Building, New York Road, Leeds (geograph 5070827).jpg, The former headquarters (centre) being demolished in August 2016
See also
* Gas board *Northern Gas Networks
Northern Gas Networks Limited is the British company responsible for distributing gas to homes and businesses across Yorkshire, the North East and northern Cumbria, England. Northern Gas Networks Limited is one of eight gas distribution networks ...
References
{{reflist Government agencies established in 1949 Government agencies disestablished in 1973 1949 establishments in England 1973 disestablishments in England Former nationalised industries of the United Kingdom Oil and gas companies of England Utilities of England Defunct companies based in Leeds