An article from The Carmarthen Weekly Reporter on the 15th July 1904 stated” It is reported that the new gas works, will be started in the course of the month, and that everything will be completed by the end of September. A site ha,8 been secured at Velfrey road the buildings, erection of the plant, the laying of the mains, etc., will be carried on simultaneously. The permission of the Whitland and Narberth District. Councils, the Pembrokeshire and the Carmarthenshire County Councils, and that of the G.W.R. Co. has to be obtained before proceeding with the works.” The gasworks were operated by the Whitland & District Water & Gas Co. this company was liquidated in 1912, assumed it was taken over by the Whitland UDC. The gasworks in Whitland were not marked on the 1907 OS map or before. They were first marked on the 1953 OS map, showing the ownership as the Whitland UDC. Vested in the Wales Gas Board from the Whitland Gas and Electricity Works. In 1972 a gasholder station with two gasholders was still marked on the OS map. In 1950 Whitland was a small Carmarthenshire market town with an old gas making plant consisting of two settings of stop-ended horizontal retorts, hand charged and discharged making about 6 m cu.ft. pa. Prior to nationalisation it had been privately owned for many years, by a family called Young and the latest in the line, Robin Young, had been appointed as the Manager of the undertaking, which also generated the electricity for the town. Whitland was converted from coal gas to Butane/Air with a calorific value of 720 btu/cu ft. liquid butane was to be delivered by road from Llandarcy, near Swansea. The installation of the butane /air plants and storage equipment together with the building construction, was completed in January 1952. The plant operated until 1960 when the town was connected to the Wales gas grid and converted by to coal gas. A few years later it was converted to natural gas. The gasworks were visible on the 1948 to 1992 OS maps, but there was a gap in mapping between 1908 and 1948.