The Stourbridge Gas Works, an important source of domestic and industrial fuel for generations, stood in Amblecote on an area known as Coney Close at Holloway End. It was built in 1835 by John Swift, a Stourbridge ironfounder, and provides yet another example of how ‘cross-border’ activity could be either relevant or irrelevant according to expediency or need. The trustees of the Stourbridge Turnpike, who administered the road out of Stourbridge, immediately contracted Swift to supply gas for fifteen lamps along the Amblecote stretch. Whilst in 1893 the Stourbridge Improvement Commissioners bought the gas company outright, the year before Amblecote gained ‘independence’ as a Parish, thus preventing any thoughts Amblecote councillors might have had of holding Stourbridge to ransom over fuel supplies.

Amblecote was also important to Stourbridge in the supply of water to the town. In the mid 19th century a covered reservoir was established on Amblecote Bank, and later on a deep borehole created between the canal and the River Stour on Wollaston Road