Northern Gas Board


The Northern Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in Durham, Northumberland and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and the North Riding of Yorkshire.
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 Northern, 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: