First Gas Lamp

North-east corner Pacific Highway & Mowbray Road, Chatswood

In 1892 a lighting committee recommended to Willoughby Council that the North Shore Gas Company be contracted to reticulate gas through the Municipality. The first gas street lamp was lit on 31 December 1896. However in 1914 a ten year contract was signed with the Sydney County Council for the supply of electricity throughout the Municipality, and by 1916 electricity was replacing gas as the source of lighting.