Old steel gas pipe removal in 1930's house

[Tony59]

In a bedroom of a 1930's house there is what I assume is an old capped town gas pipe. I assume that it was for a gas heater which would have been removed many years ago. The house has a modern natural gas supply to the kitchen only (ground floor), feeding the boiler and cooker. The bedroom is upstairs. It is a 2 storey house with 3 bedrooms upstairs.
I want to remove this old pipe from the bedroom, or at least bring it below floorboard level so it is out of the way.
In the front garden there are the remains of steel pipes in the ground which are not capped. It is my guess that these are old town gas supply pipes.
Questions:
1) Is there a way for me to check if this pipe is live? I am fairly sure that it is not live, but what should I do to check? Perhaps turn off the gas at the modern meter, unscrew the old plug and try to detect a smell?
2) After confirming that it is dead, could I unscrew the cap, then try to find a joint under the floorboard to unscrew and screw the cap into that?
See photo to check what it looks like.
Many thanks.

 

[oldbuffer]

1. Unless you have a current gas safe registration there is nothing you can or should do.
2. Get a gas safe registered engineer to do the work of identifying whether it is a gas pipe or not, and then:
2.1 Re-capping it somwhere below the floor boards. Nothing to stop you lifting the boards in advance.
2.2 Better, tracing it back as close to the meter as possible and disconnecting it and capping it.
3. Finding old steel pipes in the garden does not necessarily indicate a gas supply.
4. The original pipes were generally used when town gas was converted to natural gas. (Yes, I do remember it!)

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

The original pipes were generally used when town gas was converted to natural gas. (Yes, I do remember it!)

They were in use much earlier than that. Our 1955 house had steel pipes, run along the back gardens, and quite leaky a just a few years ago due to rusting - For a few years leading up to them being replaced, we had Transco come along the back gardens regularly, with 'sniffers', inspecting for leaks.

 

[denso13]

1) Is there a way for me to check if this pipe is live?

All you can do is trace it back and see if it is connected to anything, you might find it has been disconnected. Other than that it needs to be a Gas Safe person.