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The small brick building seen at left is all that remains of gasworks that once occupied this site. Much of it has since been transformed into a garden - the two grassed over circles - one seen in the foreground, planted with roses - mark the location of the gas tanks.

This red brick building is all that remains of the buildings of the former gasworks on Gashouse Hill. The Aylsham Gas Light and Coke Company Limited was formed in 1849 and gas works > Link were erected soon after at the southern end of Millgate > Link now known as Gashouse Hill. The streets, most of the public buildings and many shops and houses were lighted by gas until the arrival of electricity in 1929 but the streets continued to be lighted by gas until 1946. After its purchase in 1927 by the British Gas Light Company Ltd. the gasworks became the Aylsham sub-station. When in 1937-8 a gas main was laid, the gasometer began to receive charge from the Norwich gasworks and local gas production ceased. By 1949 the station was a sub-station of the Eastern Gas Board. In 2003-4 the site was officially decontaminated by the Gas Board who still own the property. The site is now a garden; only one brick building remains but the locations where the gas tanks used to stand can still clearly be discerned, one having been outlined in brick and planted with flowers. The house > Link used to be occupied by an employee. ("Millgate" - A Study by the Aylsham Local History Research Group, 2006.)