Beckton Gas Works was a enormous London gas works built to manufacture coal gas and other products including coke from coal, it operated during the years 1870 to 1969. It was located in East Ham on the north bank of the Thames.

In 1997 the Beckton Gas Works was used for the filming of Oasis music video for D'You know what I mean, from the album Be Here Now.

The Gas Works has also been the location of many films, the opening sequence of the 1981 James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only was filmed here. In 1986 it was used in the film Biggles: Adventures in Time.

One of the most famous scenes to have been filmed here was a sequence out of Full Metal Jacket, director Stanley Kubrick had the gas works transformed to look like the Vietnamese city of Huê where the end scenes of the film takes place.

The site has gradually been developed and bisected by roads ant today only a small area of waste tip and some gas holders remain. Parts of the site now hold an industrial estate, th Beckton Retail Park, the Gallions Reach Shopping Park and a Docklands Light Railway depot.

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