The Eastern Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Ely, Norfolk, the Soke of Peterborough, Suffolk and parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
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 Eastern, as a result of the Gas Act 1972.
Existing gas suppliers taken over
Under the Gas (Allocation of Undertakings to Area Boards and Gas Council) Order 1949 (SI 1949/742), the Eastern Gas Board took over existing local authority and privately owned gas production and supply utilities in its area:
Barnet District Gas and Water Company Beccles Water and Gas Company
Chelmsford Corporation
Clacton Urban District Council
Dunstable Gas and Water Company
East Dereham Urban District Council Eastern Electricity Board Ely Gas and Electricity Company
First Garden City
Haverhill Urban District Council
Lowestoft Water and Gas Company
New Hunstanton Urban District Council
Saffron Walden Corporation
Sheringham Gas and Water Company
Tendring Hundred Waterworks Company
Wells-next-the-Sea Urban District Council
See also Gas board
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