Nine Elms Gas Works were built in 1858 by the London Gas Light Company, on the site of a former tidal mill on the south bank of the River Thames. The company was taken over by the GLCC in 1883. The works covered and once employed 800people. There was a major explosion at the works on 31 October 1865: eleven workers were killed and destroyed the northern gasometer (). The works were damaged in Second World War air raids.
