Gas Light & Coke Company London 1915

[Biker]

Hello

If you had relatives who worked for this company around this period, it might be worth looking at this thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,161511.0.html

The company was I think one of the biggest in the country of its kind at the time, based in Beckton East London where there was a major gas and tar works, but with satellite locations all around London.  Employees were gas fitters, labourers, clerks, bargemen, boilermen, stokers etc.

Cheers
Biker

[kingtiger]

Hi, Biker.

Thanks for the reminder re: Becton gas works.

I have some members of my family who have worked at Becton around the time of your book.
If possible could you please check the following names for me.

Jan Hendrick Steenbergen, Joseph Mizon.

Also do you know who would have any staff records, Essex record office or the local borough's museum.

Many thanks.

Richard Nicholson

[Biker]

Hi Richard

Sorry I couldn't find those two names mentioned in the book.

In the meantime, Beckton now comes under the London Borough of Newham but also straddles Barking and Dagenham - there are links to each of the archives here http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,130729.0.html

As to the local Museum, that would probably be the Museum of Docklands - a summary of their collection is on this link http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English


Regards
Biker

[kingtiger]

Hi, Biker.

Thanks for looking for me.

Jan was a conveyor attendant in 1915 at Beckton, being Dutch he would have not joined up but his brother did.

The Barking & Dagenham borough's website have some photos of Becton Gas Works on their local history section but no records regarding the gas works.

Regards.

Richard Nicholson

 

[Biker]

Hi Richard

Apologies but I have just noticed a Gunner A.F. (or could be A.E.) Mizen.  Could this be one of your relatives?  Just thought it is an unusual name and perhaps misspelled Mizon/Mizen?  There is a photo under Company's Men with the Colours no other entry as far as I can see.

Sorry I must have been tired and missed this before.

I have to look for a few others so will have another look through for your chaps at the same time.

Regards
Biker

[Joseph2]

re: your posting mentioning Gunner AF or AE Mizen , I wonder if connected with my Alfred Edwin Mizen who had sons who were developing a project
involving gas lighting and zeppellins, or were these two separate discussions?!
regards

[Indaloman]

All your postings have brought back memories of my childhood and teen years, my Dad and I used to go on our bikes, (dads fitted with a little trailer), to the Gaslight & Coke Company at Becton to buy coke just after the war. The spoil heap was absolutely enormous, when the company closed, the council used the site as a landfill for rubbish. As teenagers we used to take our motorbikes over there and use it as a scrambling site. The council closed it and landscaped it. It was then made into a dry ski slope, but that has now closed.

[TraceyD]

Hi Biker,

Just read your posting about the Gas Light & Coke Company, my grandfather John Davis worked for the company but I am unsure of what year.  Please could you check for me to see if he was listed, sometimes he stated his name as John Hughes Davis.

Thanks
Tracey 

[cathymcc]

Hi

Company information can be found @ the UK National Archives [go to ''search the archives'' then to ''catalogue''],  I think there were quite a few small utility companies before the Great War.

cathy