Gas in Leeds

• Private plant opened 1806/7.
• First used 1818: Gas Co. formed.
• Hunslet first lit by gas, 10 October 1835.
• Meadow Lane works 1835.
• Leeds Gaslight Co. 1857
• Gas Undertaking bought by city, 30 June 1870.
• Explosion at New Wortley Gas Works, 13 Nov 1871 (see Leeds Yearbook 1937, p.16)
• Gas strike, 1890.
• Gas riot (see Times index July 1890).