Editing Wandsworth (section)

===Gas and power===
Wandsworth [[Gasworks|gas plant]] was built in 1834 against the River Thames near [[Wandsworth Bridge]].<ref name=Archives>{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/3d635472-970c-45ba-8b69-28f4984e9651#0|title=Wandsworth and District Gas Company|work=Access to Archives|publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]]|access-date=3 May 2018}}</ref> The undertaking became the [[Wandsworth and District Gas Company|Wandsworth and Putney Gaslight and Coke Company]] in 1854 and was incorporated by an act of Parliament, the [[Wandsworth and Putney Gas Act 1856]] ([[19 & 20 Vict.]] c. lxii).<ref name=Archives/> Coal for making [[coal gas]] was brought by sea from [[North East England]] and unloaded on the Thames beside the gasworks.<ref name=Archives/> The firm grew by a series of mergers and takeovers so that by 1936 it served a considerable area of south-west London.<ref name=Archives/> The company's name evolved each time it merged with or took over neighbouring gas companies, but from 1936 it was the [[Wandsworth and District Gas Company]].<ref name=Archives/> The company was nationalised in 1949 and became part of the [[gas board|South Eastern Gas Board]].<ref name=Archives/>

[[Wandsworth power station]] was built on The Causeway and supplied electricity to the district of Wandsworth from 1897 to 1964.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Garcke|first=Emile|title=Manual of Electrical Undertakings 1898-99 vol. 3|publisher=P. S. King and Son|year=1898|location=London|pages=154–160}}</ref> It was owned and operated by the County of London Electric Supply Company Limited until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. The power station was decommissioned in 1964.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Garrett|first=Frederick C.|title=Garcke's Manual of Electricity Supply vol. 56|publisher=Electrical Press|year=1959|location=London|pages=A-105, A-137}}</ref> There is an operational 132 kV national grid substation to the east of the River Wandle.