The Eastern Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Ely, Norfolk, the Soke of Peterborough, Suffolk and parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
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 Eastern, 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 (SI 1949/742), the Eastern Gas Board took over existing local authority and privately owned gas production and supply utilities in its area:[1]
Aldeburgh Gas Light Company
Aspley Guise and Woburn Sands Gas Company
Attleborough Gas Company
Baldock Gas Light and Coke Company
Barnet District Gas and Water Company
Beccles Water and Gas Company
Bedford District Gas Company
Berkhampstead Gas Company
Bishop's Stortford Epping and District Gas Company
