Ryde Gas Works
A group of promoters established a gas company in 1838 at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[1]
Streets in Ryde were first lit with gas on November 1838 - this predates the railway, which later ran along side with a siding running into the works.
In 1845 the company was registered as 'The Registered Ryde Gas & Coke Company'.
In 1866 it was incorporated as The Ryde Gas Light Company.
At the start of 1923, the Brading Harbour and District Company merged with the Ryde Gas-light Company.
The company was nationalised in 1949 and became part of the Southern Gas Board.
The works closed in 1957 when a new Gas Works was built at Kingston, East Cowes to supply the whole island.
The gasometer continued to be used at the Ryde site, to locally store the gas, until the installation of a cross Solent gas main in the 1970's to supply the island with Natural (North Sea) gas.
A former purifier house stands on Rink Road, this is listed (as a workshop) as Grade II used by Scottish & Southern Electricity Company.
- ↑ Gazetteer of Gasworks and Gasholder Stations in England
