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At the start of the 1900 century engineers were making gas from coal, as time went on many of the large house’s had small Gas Works installed in their gardens to provide gas for lighting and later to power household item’ such as iron’s, washing machines, cookers, fires, and many others. On November the 29th 1893 the Clerk of the peace at the Board of Trade received a set of plans showing the site ( provisional order) for the Llanfairfechan and Aber Gas Works. The Proposed site was at the back of Madryn Farm on the Aber to Llanfairfechan road, although this is a drawing of a proposed site it went on to be completed and used by many homes in both Aber and Llanfairfechan it demise would come with electricity which was easier to connect to homes. The main area of the works and offices of the what became the North Wales Gas - Light Gas and Coke Company were installed at Madryn Farm from 1860 up until the years before the second world. The workmen’s houses just across the road in the map below and other various buildings were incorporated in to the farm. The Madryn Farm is an area that was made up of land from Cambwll Farm and other land that came with the house “Gorddinog”. The coal was brought by train to Aber, then from Aber or perhaps from Mr. Platt’s own railway station at Llanfairfechan. The coke that remained from the process would have had many uses.

Here are some important dates in the development of the house hold Gas supply how many of these Mr. Platt used is a matter of pure conjecture

1801 Philippe Lebon demonstrated gas lighting publicly in Paris.
1806 Gas lighting installed in cotton spinning mills by William Murdoch in Manchester and by Samuel Clegg in Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire.
1807 Frederick Winsor demonstrated gas street lighting in Pall Mall, London and London's Golden Lane was lit by gas produced at a nearby brewery.
1814 Frederick Accum wrote the first authoritative text book on gas manufacture.
1817 Samuel Clegg developed the gas meter.
1824 Tate invented the telescopic gasholder.
1826 James Sharp installed an experimental gas cooker at his house in Northampton
1855 Invention of the Bunsen burner by Robert Bunsen
1856 Pettit and Smith produced the first practical gas fire
1870 T S Lacey patented the first prepayment gas meter
1887 The incandescent gas mantle was invented by Carl Auer
1923 Thermostatic controls on gas ovens introduced