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unusual facts about town gas



George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont

Town gas was introduced in 1836 when a gas works was built in Station Road, using coal brought to Coultershaw wharf by barge and later by rail to Petworth railway station.

Nelly Neppach

On the night of 7/8 May 1933, Neppach, obviously in despair because of the increasing discrimination and prosecution of Jewish people in Germany and her isolation from tennis in particular, took her life in her flat at Berlin using Barbital and town gas.


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