Description

Admin History:

The company was established by the Statute 2 Geo. IV, C.45 (1821). The text of the Statute is printed in William Wooley's 'A collection of Statutes relating to the Town of Kingston upon Hull', pp.169-197. The undertaking was purchased and closed down by the Corporation in 1898.

Description:

The collection consists chiefly of title deeds, dated 1822-1891, and mainly relate to the site of the Gasworks in Broadley Street (now Alfred Gelder Street) where the central portion of the Guildhall stands. The title deeds provide a picture of the urbanisation of one of the last parts of the old town to experience this process in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

In its early years the company made gas from oil. No records have survived, however, from this period, which unfavourable economics rendered brief. The collection also includes records relating to the administration of the gas works regarding the subsequent phase when the company was entrusted to a John Malam to convert it to coal working and to manage the company for 21 years, records dating from 1830 to 1850. There are few records relating to the last fifty years of the company's operating, and is recorded only in an incomplete series of formal agreements. The collection also includes documents regarding the laying of the water mains across Dock Company property 1822-1893.