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Modern mid-rise apartment buildings stand alongside the redeveloped dockside industrial buildings of the old gas works at Canon's Marsh on Bristol's regenerated post-industrial Harbouside.
It is hard to believe that this picture of Arbroath gasworks, with one of its gasometers, was taken less than a quarter of a century ago! It is even possible that demolition had started, That looks like the arm of an excavator just left of centre.
Carbon has recently had a new boiler built and only requires a few minor works to return it to traffic.
Puffing Billy Railway's Menzies Creek Museum Re-Opening Monday 24-02-2020.
Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington is a 19.1 acre (77,000 m²) public park on the site of the former Seattle Gas Light Company gasification plant, located on the north shore of Lake Union at the south end of the Wallingford neighborhood. Gas Works park contains remnants of the sole remaining coal gasification plant in the US. The plant operated from 1906 to 1956, and was bought by the City of Seattle for park purposes in 1962.
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Shot with a Razzle camera that has a Nikkor 150mm f5.6 lens mounted on it. The film used was Ilford HP5+ developed in AGFA Rodinal. Scanned using a betterscanning dry mount system and a Epson V700. Spotted and tweaked in Photoshop CS4.
This photo was taken at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Inside a beautiful park in Seattle: Gasworks Park. It's right on Lake Union and it has an old...well, Gasworks in the middle of it. They used it in that horrible movie "10 Things I Hate About You" with Heath Ledger and that chick that looks like a slightly skinnier version of a mummy.
From The Gas World, 1 May 1897:
“The monthly meeting of the Ashton-in-Makerfield Urban District Council appears to have been marked by a somewhat lively scene on a question relating to the management of the gasworks. The works, we gather, are at present and have been for some years managed by Mr J Hill, the clerk to the Council. For his work as manager of the undertaking he has hitherto received no extra remuneration, and it was proposed that for such services he should be paid £50 per annum. It was over this proposal that the trouble referred to occurred. Certain members of the Council said that Mr Hill had needlessly taken upon himself the duties of the gas managership, without expecting payment, and expressed the opinion that there was no call for increasing his salary by the sum proposed. Mr Hill, however, repudiated the statement that he had taken upon himself the duties of gas manager; he had, he said, been formally appointed to the office. In this statement he was supported by members of the Council, who also contended that Mr Hill had controlled the gasworks very efficiently and made them a financial benefit to the town. At the close of the discussion, in the course of which personalities were freely banded about, the advance of salary was agreed by a considerable majority.”
From The Gas World, 30 April 1898:
“A painful situation has been created in the Wigan district of Lancashire by the death of Mr James Hill, clerk to the Urban District Council of Ashton-in-Makerfield, who also acted as manager of the gasworks and held a number of other local appointments. On Thursday afternoon of last week Mr Hill failed to attend the annual meeting of the District Council, and considerable surprise was caused by his non-appearance. He had left a note on his desk to say that he had gone to Warrington and would be back at noon, but he had not returned when the Council finished its deliberations about 5 o'clock. Soon after that hour he was brought home in a cab, and his condition was such as to lead to the conclusion that he had been attempting to drown himself. He was taken to bed and attended by a medical man. The following morning, when his medical attendant entered the room, Mr Hill was found hanging by his braces... At an inquest on the body, which was held on Monday, a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned. It is supposed that the mind of the deceased gentleman had been unhinged by business worries. It is some years since Mr Hill, who was not a gas engineer by profession, was appointed to manage the gasworks and received, on that account, an increase in the salary formerly paid to him as clerk to the District Council. Nothing is yet known as to whether the dual arrangement will be continued in the case of his successor.”
James Hill was born on 14 April 1859, the son of Thomas and Ann(e) Hill of Gladden Hey Brow, North Ashton. He was appointed collector of the general district, gas and water rates in 1879 and, following the death of Ashton-in-Makerfield Local Board clerk John Fairless in 1881, was additionally made deputy-clerk with a combined annual salary of £100. He was promoted to the position of clerk -and relieved of that of collector- in 1884, but without any advance of salary. The Board also sanctioned his holding the office of assistant overseer “on condition that the duties of the local board be not neglected in the slightest degree, that he made no application for an increase of salary, and that if he requires an assistant at any time the person to be appointed by the board and paid for by Mr Hill” (Wigan Archives re. UD Ash/A/A1/8). In the meanwhile he had married Martha (daughter of John Hill, lamp maker) at Holy Trinity Church on 15 September 1881. In 1891 the couple moved with their 4 children from Bryn St to “The Poplars”, Bolton Rd, where 4 further children were born. Contrary to the suggestion in 1897 that his role as gasworks manager was previously unremunerated, it had been resolved by the Board's Finance and General Purposes Committee on 6 May 1889 “that the clerk be allowed his coal, gas and water free in consideration of his services as manager of the gasworks” (UD Ash/A/A1/13).
At the inquest into his death held at The Britannia Inn, Wigan Rd, on 25 April 1898 evidence was received to the effect that Mr Hill made at least two unsuccessful attempts to take his own life, and had been under some pressure in relation to an impending audit of the Council's finances. It is apparent from the article in The Gas Journal of 1 May 1897 that his relations with certain Councillors were less than cordial. In addition, his youngest child -12-days-old Gladys- had died on 6 March 1898; an event which must have had some impact on his already fragile mental state. Surprisingly, despite questioning of the family doctor and the deceased's widow and eldest daughter, there was no mention of the baby's death at the inquest.
Gladys Hill is buried in an unmarked grave close by that of her parents and brother at the Heath Rd burial ground. The photographs of Gladden Hey Farm (left, top), 13 Bryn St (middle) and The Poplars (below) were taken on 30 July 2013, 5 September 2018 and 28 May 2016 respectively.
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I waited for ages to get the bastard starlings that were roosting on the metalwork.
I wanted one with them swarming in the background, but they were too lazy to fly and I was too lazy to wait.
This is the Eastern side.
The end of the loading dock at Bilton Lane.
This is where the Gasworks Railway loaded/offloaded to the rail network.
Coal loaded and Bitumen/coal tar offloaded.
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Class 88DS Ruston & Hornsby 4-wheel diesel mechanical ('Fleet No.1139' (W/No.463153 of 1961) at British Gas Corporation, Hilsea Gasworks on 15th October 1982. The works was located on the east side of the B.R. Hilsea Halt to Fratton line. The standard gasworks was converted to a naphtha reforming plant in 1963, after which it saw limited rail traffic, however the Ruston and Peckett steam loco were retained in immaculate condition.
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