Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company
id:
newcastle-and-district-electric-lighting-company-273-10761915
title:
Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company
text:
The Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company was a pre-nationalisation, private electricity supply company, based in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. The company was set up in 1889 by Charles Algernon Parsons. The company built a number of small coal-fired power stations in the west end of Newcastle upon Tyne, initially to supply homes and streets with electric lighting. They also provided power for an electrified tram line in the western part of the city. DISCo was the first e
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_and_District_Electric_Lighting_Company
date created:
date modified:
2022-10-08T09:51:25Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q16933345","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16933345"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Newcastle_and_District_Electric_Lighting_Company_Plaque.jpg","width":1907,"height":1874}
fields total:
13
integrity:
14