Photographs: An electricity cut throughout Anglesey after a storm

PHOTOGRAPHS AND LETTER: An electricity cut throughout Anglesey after a storm. Includes Llanfairpwll 33 KV substation; looking from Star, Gaerwen towards Llanfairpwll; a wreck of a steel tower brought down by the weight of ice on the conductors during the storm, and looking towards Caergeiliog with an accompanying letter.

In 1881, the first public electricity generator in Britain was installed in Godalming, Surrey. The next year, the Electric Light Act was passed which was the first public measure dealing with electricity supply. In 1900, several Acts of Parliament were passed granting rights to power companies in perpetuity, to supply electricity to authorised undertakings and for industrial and manufacturing purposes. A 1904 bill for empowering the North Wales Power and Traction Co. Ltd. to construct Generating Stations and supply electricity in certain parts of North Wales is one of the earliest references for Anglesey electricity. In 1926, the Electricity Supply Act introduced the first effective national co-ordination. The Central Electricity Board was created to concentrate the generation of electricity in a limited number of power stations. These stations were to be interconnected by a national grid, which was largely completed by 1935. Some places in Anglesey would not have electricity until the 1950s. Abergeirw, a village of nine properties located between Dolgellau and Trawsfynydd was the last village in Wales to be supplied with mains electricity. It was connected to The National Grid in December 2008

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Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

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