Geograph - photograph every grid square

Production of gas for public supply in Salford began in 1819 under Messrs. Appleby, Brain, Fisher and Clay. An 1830 Act of Parliament allowed the Commissioners of Salford to purchase the works in Clowes Street. By 1836 these works were replaced by a new gas works in Lamb Lane, later known as Bloom Street and, in 1844 a Charter of Incorporation was granted to the town and the gas works came under the control of the Salford Corporation.

Production expanded under the control of the Corporation's Gas Committee and new works were constructed in Salford at Regent Road in 1858, Liverpool Street in 1868, Albion Street in 1893 and West Egerton Street in 1912. The Liverpool Street works and the Regent Road works were connected by a footbridge and both lay alongside the London and North-Western Railway.

The main offices and meter department were based at Bloom Street (SJ8398 : Gas Board Offices (Arlington House)). The area of supply included Eccles, Swinton, Worsley, Walkden, Davyhulme, Irlam, Cadishead and Pendlebury although Salford Corporation sold their right to supply Davyhulme to the newly formed Stretford and District Gas Board in 1922.

On nationalisation in 1949, the Salford Corporation Gas Department became part of the Manchester Group of the NWGB (Link National Archives).