Title 1     |     home Title 1   |   30.4.2010 pictures   |   maps   |   documents   |   Site Pictures 29th April 2010   |   Site pictures 10th May 2010   |   Ramsgate Gasworks pictures 20th July 2010   |   list of the chemicals identified as being on the site   |   Ground water and the gasworks documents 1897: Entry in Gas & Electric Lighting Companies Directory and Statistics; with a List of Chairmen, Managers, Engineers, and Secretaries, and Lists of Associations of Engineers and Managers of Gas and Electric Lighting Undertakings in all parts of the World 1824: Established 1877: Special Act 1878: Purchased by the Corporation of Ramsgate 1880: Special Act 1897: Population served: 30,000 Consumers: 3,577 Coal Carbonized: 15,,471 tons Annual Make: 182,594,000 cf Annual Sales: 164,677,000 cf Computed loss: 9.8 percent Sulphate Made: 72.5 tons Tar Sold: not reported Chairman: C. J. Gwyn Engineer: W. A. Valon, CE Secretary: George Cockburn Office: Hardress Street Also supplies St. Lawrence (p. 161-162) And, in 1897, apparently no carburetted water gas yet ... strictly coal gas.