North Eastern Gas Board

North Eastern Gas Board

The former headquarters (centre) being demolished in August 2016
Agency overview
Formed	1 May 1949 (1949-05-01)
Dissolved	1973 (1973)
Status	Defunct
Headquarters	Leeds, Yorkshire, England

The North Eastern Gas Board (NEGB), later North East Gas (NeGas) was a state-owned utility providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in modern-day West Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire.

History

The North East of England came instead under the Northern Gas Board. Modern day South Yorkshire (with the exception of the most northern parts of the Barnsley and Doncaster boroughs was also never under its remit; instead under the East Midlands Gas Board.

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 North Eastern, as a result of the Gas Act 1972. The board's headquarters were in Leeds in buildings which later became administrative buildings for British Gas which were demolished in 2016.

The infrastructure of the former North Eastern Gas Board now forms the Southern region of the region of Northern Gas Networks.

Gallery

• 
  The Gas Club in Huddersfield; a social club for employees (seen in 2008).
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  Conversion to natural gas in Bradford, 1973.
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  The NEGB's former showrooms on Eastgate, Leeds; now under private ownership (seen in 2014).
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  Infrastructure at the former Meadow Lane gas works, Leeds (seen in 2008)
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  A gas storage site in Sheepscar, Leeds (seen in 2007)
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  A gas storage site in Bridlington (seen in 2009)

See also

• Gas board
• Northern Gas Networks