North Western Gas Board
The North Western Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in the north-west of England.
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 Western, 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, the North Western Gas Board took over existing local authority and privately owned gas production and supply utilities in its area:- Accrington District Gas and Water Board
- Altrincham Gas Company
- Ashton Gas Company
- Ashton-in-Makerfield Urban District Council
- Atherton Urban District Council
- Barnoldswick Urban District Council
- Barrow-in-Furness Corporation
- Bentham Gas Company
- Birkenhead Corporation
- Blackburn Corporation
- Blackpool Corporation
- Bollington Urban District Council
- Bolton Corporation
- Broadbottom Gas Company
- Burnley Corporation
- Bury Corporation Buxton Corporation
- Carnforth Gas Company
- Chapel Whaley and District Gas Company
- Chester United Gas Company
- Chorley Corporation
- Clitheroe Corporation
- Colne Corporation
- Dalton-in-Furness Council
- Darwen Corporation
- Earby and Thornton Gas and Lighting Company
- Ellesmere Port Urban Council
- Fleetwood Gas Company
- Garstang Gas Company
- Glossop Gas Company
- Golborne Gas Company
- Grange and Cartmel District Gas Company
- Haslingden Union Gas Company
- Hayfield Gas Company
- Heywood Corporation
- Hindley Urban District Council
- Hollingworth Gas Company
- Hoylake Urban District Council
- H. Saville
- Kendal Corporation
- Kirkby Lonsdale Gas Company
- Kirkham Gas Company
- Knutsford Light and Water Company
- Lakes Urban District Council
- Lancaster Corporation
- Leigh Corporation
- Leyland Gas Company
- Littleborough Gas Company
- Liverpool Gas Company
- Longridge Gas Company
- Lymm Urban District Council
- Lytham St. Annes Corporation
- Macclesfield Corporation
- Malpas Gas Company
- Manchester Corporation
- Marple Urban District Council
- Middleton Corporation
- Middlewich Gas Light and Coke Company
- Millom Rural District Council
- Milnthorpe Gas Coal Coke and Lime Company
- Morecambe and Heysham Corporation
- Mossley and Saddleworth Gas Company
- Nantwich Gas Company
- Nelson Corporation
- New Mills Urban District Council
- Newton-le-Willows Urban District Council
- North Cheshire and District Gas Company
- Northwich Gas Company
- Oldham Corporation
- Ormskirk District Gas Company
- Oswaldtwistle Urban District Council
- Padiham Urban District Council
- Poulton-le-Fylde Urban District Council
- Prescot and District Gas Company
- Preston Gas Company
- Radcliffe, Farnworth and District Gas Company
- Ramsbottom Gas Company
- Rochdale Corporation
- Rossendale Union Gas Company
- Runcorn and District Gas Company
- St. Helens Corporation
- Salford Corporation
- Sandbach Gas Company
- Sedbergh New Gas Company
- Skelmersdale Urban District Council
- Southport Corporation
- Stalybridge Corporation
- Stockport Corporation
- Stretford and District Gas Board
- Thornton Cleveleys Urban District Council
- Tyldesley Urban District Council
- Ulverston Urban District Council
- United Kingdom Gas Corporation
- Wallasey Corporation
- Warrington Corporation
- Westhoughton Consumers Gas Company
- Whitchurch Gas Company
- Widnes Corporation
- Wigan Corporation
- Wilmslow and Alderley Edge Gas Company
- Windermere Urban District Council
- Winsford Gas Company
- Withnell Urban District Council
- Worsley Urban District Council