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Natural Gas & Oil Corporation
Bush, Thomas
Millers Point gasworks
Australian Gas Light Company works at Darling Harbour 1855
Australian Gas Light Company, Jenkins Street, Sydney 1870-1875

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Gas engineering

Natural Gas & Oil Corporation

Mining company formed to reopen the Balmain coal mine in an attempt to extract natural gas. It was plagued by explosions and ceased production in 1950.

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Bush, Thomas

Engineer employed at AGL gasworks at Mortlake.

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Millers Point gasworks

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The city's first gasworks, established by the Australian Gas Light Company in 1841, on the Darling Harbour edge of Millers Point, where Barangaroo is now. Production was gradually transferred to the company's Haymarket site and the Mortlake. The works were sold to the state government in 1912 and the buildings demolished by 1922. Some traces of the site still remain.

Australian Gas Light Company works at Darling Harbour 1855

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Contributed By
City of Sydney Archives
[City of Sydney – Detail Plans, 1855: Sheet 2, CRS502/2 (detail)]

Australian Gas Light Company, Jenkins Street, Sydney 1870-1875

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By
American & Australasian Photographic Company
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 4 Box 58 No 284]
(Mitchell Library)

Engineering disciplines