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The old gasworks in Hrensko, Czech Republic was built in 1905 for production of acetylene gas.
Because the production process was dangerous and there was the fear that an explosion would cause serious damage to the surrounding area, the building was placed in a narrow rock canyon.
I already posted a landscape format from this building >> HERE
The old gasworks in Hrensko, Czech Republic was built in 1905 for production of acetylene gas.
Because the production process was dangerous and there was the fear that an explosion would cause serious damage to the surrounding area, the building was placed in a narrow rock canyon.
Nowadays it is used as a restaurant.
Town gas used to be made by distilling coal. Here we see the banks of tubular retorts containing the coal. They were filled and then raked out by hand. They were heated, behind the brick wall, to red-heat by the surrounding hot flue gases of a furnace hand-stoked at the floor below. Gases emitted from the heated coal travelled upwards in the pipes to the header vessel at top. From there they were purified and finally distributed around the town for lighting and heating.
The coal distillation and purification yielded as eventual by-products, ammonia, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, tar, phenols, soaps, dyestuffs, early plastics and a host of other valuable chemicals. The retort residue is coke used in iron smelting.
Coal gas is now replaced by ‘natural’ gas - methane. We now rely on that and oil for chemicals and plastics.
This town gasworks functioned from 1846 to 1965. It is the only surviving one in England and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Gasworks Album:
www.flickr.com/photos/lesc/albums/72177720302197134
Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History, Norfolk.
Marcel van Eeden
with one of his big charcoal drawings
in the footsteps of Van Gogh
Translated interview in the first comment
The old town gas made by coal distillation was a mixture of mainly hydrogen, methane and carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide rendered it potentially lethal.
Gas quality was important and was checked frequently at the gasworks.
The shiny vessel at left is a calorimeter where calorific value was measured. The gas was burned inside it and the temperature rise of surrounding water measured.
At right is an 'Orsat Apparatus' to measure the gas composition. It used chemicals to absorb particular components and was slow and labour intensive.
More gasworks images www.flickr.com/photos/lesc/albums/72177720302197134
Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History, Norfolk.
The old town gas made by coal distillation was a mixture of mainly hydrogen, methane and carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide rendered it potentially lethal.
Gas quality was important and was checked frequently at the gasworks.
The shiny vessel at left is a calorimeter where calorific value was measured. The gas was burned inside it and the temperature rise of surrounding water measured.
At right is an 'Orsat Apparatus' to measure the gas composition. It used chemicals to absorb particular components and was slow and labour intensive.
More gasworks images www.flickr.com/photos/lesc/albums/72177720302197134
Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History, Norfolk.
This sunset shot of the old gasworks complex in Launceston, reminds of our fast disappearing relics of industrialisation. Here we see the skeletal structure of the gasometer which stored the methane gas that was produced from the coal that was processed in the Vertical Retort building.
New shot here with added lighting since I last visited Kings Cross at the end of 2019. Here sees Azuma 800110 emerging from Gasworks tunnel on the approach to London Kings Cross working the 1E15 0952 from Aberdeen 28/1/23.
The ever changing face of Graffiti behind the Gasworks in Chelmsford, Essex, it may be that this is not there any more. I haven't visited it for a while.
The old gasworks in Hrensko, Czech Republic was built in 1905 for production of acetylene gas.
Because the production process was dangerous and there was the fear that an explosion would cause serious damage to the surrounding area, the building was placed in a narrow rock canyon.
The old gasworks in Launceston goes back to the 19th century. Coal was delivered from the mines by railway and converted to methane gas in the large building at the back of the shot.. This gas was then stored in the large gasometer. The frame of this still stands today, although it is a long time since any gas was produced or stored here. No attempt has been made to straighten this infra red shot and it is pretty much straight out of camera.
Before the onset of gas and then electric light, houses in Launceston were largely lit by whale oil lamps. In 1858 a community meeting established the first Gas Company in Launceston. Work began building a complex capable of extracting methane gas from coal. It was completed in 1859, and in 1860 Launceston turned on its gas street lights for the first time.
This Vertical retort building (where the process of conversion takes place) was not completed until 1930, and replaced the older buildings. A large "Cook With Gas" sign is etched into the side with clever brickwork. The gas was stored in three large gasometers (I have a photo of one linked to below).
The process was abandoned in 1977 in favour of LPG, especially since a large gasfield had been established in Bass Strait. By 2007 the existing gas company sold the property to developers. By 2012 it had become the site of a popular restaurant, and the remaining gasometer structure is now going to be incorporated into apartments.
The Gasworks is a former Victorian gasometer located in the South Docks area of Dublin. In 2008 it was transformed into a residential estate called The Alliance. 240 luxury apartments were built within the cast iron frame of the former gas storage structure. Inside the structure there is an open roof patio with with rows of galleries.
Camera: Rolleiflex 3.5B TLR Zenar 75mm f3.5 1954
Film: Ilford SFX 200 Black and White 120
Scanned by Walkens House of Film, Melbourne, Australia
The Launceston Gas Company operated on this site from 1858 to 1988, when the company was sold to Boral who closed down all local production. At least these beautiful old buildings (including the vertical retort building which converted coal to gas) still remain.
The square format of the 120 film makes an ideal frame for my composition.
www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/...
Gasworks park was the sight of the Seattle Gas Light Company. The sole remaining Coal gasification plant left in the United State's. It's a 19 acre Park in Seattle on Lake Union. 1906-1956. It was bought by the city and opened as a public park in 1962.
The former Temple Gasworks on Strathcona Drive, Glasgow were built between 1893 and 1900, and were some of the largest in the world at the time of their construction. #blackandwhite #glasgow
The Gasworks at Hjorthagen. Designed by Ferdinand Boberg just over a century ago in the 1890s. In use up until 2011. Today being incorporated in the new area Norra Djurgårdsstaden. This will be a hotel in a not too distant future.
I have lived here for 10 years and this was actually my first time visiting the famous Instagram spot that is Gasworks Park in Seattle. I wanted to do something a little different than my typical work here and had a vision in mind that I think came out pretty well.
Ein schöner Spätsommertag in Dublin... ich wandere entlang. Hinter den üppig grün belaubten Bäumen taucht immer wieder ein Gebäude auf, dessen Form ich nicht einzuordnen vermag, es sieht interessant aus - aber ist es jetzt eher antik oder modern?
Beim Näherkommen erweckt es mehr und mehr den Eindruck eines Industriebaus. Meine Neugier ist geweckt und während ich die Einfahrt ansteuere, kann ich nun bereits lesen, was in großen Lettern auf dem Hinweisschild steht: GASWORKS DUBLIN
Ein heruntergekommenes Gasometer hat man, nachdem es seiner ursprünglichen Bestimmung nicht mehr diente, völlig entkernt, bis nur noch das Stahlgerüst übrig blieb. Dieses wurde anschließend komplett neu bebaut.
Verantwortlich für die Umgestaltung und das Design zeichnet der irische Architekt O’Mahony Pike.
Das Resultat: moderne Luxuswohnungen in einem alten Stahlkorsett.
Auch wenn das Gebäude von außen kalt und eher etwas abweisend wirkt, als ich den Innenkreis betrete, finde ich angenehm warme Farben vor, die einzelnen Etagen sind über Fahrstühle erreichbar und jede Wohnung verfügt über einen Balkon, von dem aus die Bewohner einen wunderbaren Blick über den begrünten Innenhof genießen.
Wohnen möchte ich dort nicht, aber der Faszination des Gebäudes konnte ich mich nicht entziehen...
f 7,1
1/320 s
ISO 100
18 mm
with the Aurora bridge in the distance.
original image jazzed-up in Snapseed app for Sliders Sunday. HSS!
When the light fades the time is right to reflect on our day, feel proud of our accomplishments and give ourselves permission to try again the things that did not turn out exactly as we were hoping for.
After a wonderful day roaming around on Mount Rainier with some friends. I got the call to stop by Gasworks and shoot some steel wool. It was really fun to meet and shoot with some old flickr friends and some new ones. After the grabbing some cool wool pics. Some of us headed closer to the water and got some killer reflections of the city lights. Thanks for the fun night Dene', Pat, Tom, Matt, Little M, Ken, Hai.
Thanks for stopping by :)
Vinny
Camera: Olympus PEN EES-2 (Half-Frame)
Film: Unknown. A friend gave me a roll that someone else gave to him. The cartridge claimed to be Kodak Gold 200, but it was either super-expired or another film stock altogether. After C-41 processing the negatives came back greatly underexposed. Converting to B&W and embracing the grain yielded a painterly image which I rather enjoy.
Seattle, WA.