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The old gasworks on the river's edge at Newstead in Brisbane, Queensland were developed back in the 1860s. Now it is being redeveloped as an urban hub, surrounded by shops, cafes and apartment buildings. The iconic steel framework that once surrounded the gas tank has been kept and it makes a very striking feature in the area.
Construction of gasometers at Waterford Gasworks. Late 1800's I believe.
(Updated photo Jan 8th 2020)
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Kite Aerial Photography of Gasworks Park, Seattle.
Squeezing a single photo in during the last remaining daylight hours of WWKW, here is my entry after a full week of awful kite flying weather for Seattle.
[update] This image was featured on the mywallingford website, along with an article about me. :) www.mywallingford.com/2010/09/21/gas-works-park-the-view-...
Shot with a Horseman LE monorail camera with a Horseman Topcor 210mm lens. The film used was Ilford HP5+ developed in Ilford Microphen. Scanned and tweaked in Photoshop CC via an Epson V700. The location was the Dunedin Gasworks Museum, New Zealand.
Steve Ting © 2014
I don't actually know what is happening with this redeveloped gasometer.
Initially 210 apartments were built inside this Victorian gasometer in the nine-storey cyclindrical building and most have been vacant since they went on sale a few years ago and failed to sell in sufficient numbers to make the scheme viable.
The developer (Liam Carroll) applied for planning permission to build a four-storey glazed roof “springing” from the first floor level over the internal courtyard to incorporate this space in a hotel. There would be a new three-storey glazed entrance to the hotel.
Fifty two residents of the Gasworks objected , claiming that a 500-plus room hotel is too big in a residential complex and would ruin the quiet and safe atmosphere of the development.
Liam Carroll is a property developer in Ireland whose Zoe Developments group became well-known during the Celtic Tiger years of 1990s and 2000s for residential and commercial property construction projects.
Zoe group companies became unable to repay bank borrowings of a reported €1.3bn and in summer 2009 requested Examinership as protection from creditors, particularly ACCBank who were the first to seek liquidation of some of his companies. Following a series of cases, this was rejected by both the High Court and the Supreme Court of Ireland with the rescue plan described by a judge as bordering, if not trespassing on the fanciful and the appointment of liquidators to group companies was confirmed by the courts on 14th October 2009.
Seattle, Washington - One of the coolest places to photograph, though there are tons of people here especially on weekends.
This 20 acre point on Lake Union was cleared in 1906 to construct a plant to manufacture gas from coal - later converted to crude oil. Import of natural gas in the 1950's made the plant obsolete. The city acquired the site for a park in 1962. The park was opened to the public in 1975. The boiler house has been converted to a picnic shelter with tables, fire grills and an open area. The former exhauster-compressor building, now a children's play barn, features a maze of brightly painted machinery.
Camera Panasonic DMC-GX1
Exposure 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture f/11.0
Focal Length 14 mm
ISO Speed 160
Back before all of the park's historical industrial machinery got completely painted over with the thickest, ugliest brown you've ever seen, this place used to have character. I still have these images to help remember how it used to be.
Maroon-liveried Peckett 0-4-0 saddle tank 3 (W/No.2058 of 1944) at West Midland Gas Board, Windsor Street Gasworks, Birmingham, on 29th March 1969, one of three similar “Greenhithe” class Pecketts supplied to the gasworks. Steam traction was replaced entirely by diesel in 1969, but the works, which was connected to the BR Aston Goods Branch near to the BR motive power depot, ceased production in February 1974. Cashmore’s scrapyard at Great Bridge dealt with this Peckett in March 1969.
© Gordon Edgar collection - photographer Derek J. Lowe - all rights reserved. Please do not download, copy, or use this image without my explicit prior permission
I suspect that these buildings are part of the old East Perth Gasworks. Whatever they were, they're long gone now.
I'm not 100% sure when these photos were taken, but it was in the mid to late 1990s, during the construction of the Northbridge Tunnel (Graham Farmer Freeway).
Later: Aha! Thanks to Landgate putting a bunch of old aerial photos up on Google Maps I've positively identified this as the old Gas Works. Also, this building was demolished by the 1995 series of Landgate pics, so these photos must have been taken before then.
Chelmsford Gasworks, Essex
If there was one good thing to come out of 2007 this would be it.. Arms on a comeback tip. Respect
The old gasworks site has been transformed with the development of a large modern apartment complex. The only reminder of the previous use is this conversion of this gasholder into apartments. The framework has the name 'S Cutter & Sons Contractors London 1885' cast into the uprights.
The developer took deposits on many of the apartments but has subsequently returned them and none has been occupied. There is now a planning application to convert the building to a 520 bed hotel.
The old tanks at Gasworks Park in Seattle. Imposing enough in the daytime. I hope to go back and get some twilight or night shots in the near future.
Belfast Gasworks provided light and heat for the city for more than 160 years.
In 1988 production ceased after more than 160 years. The system was shut down, the mains were filled with an inert gas to displace gas in the system and residual was gas burned off at the extremities. Post 1988 Belfast City Council, in partnership with the Laganside Corporation, undertook major work to turn the heavily polluted site into a business park. A high quality public realm was created. Roads and walkways reunited the city, community and river. The redevelopment won an award for the reclamation of contaminated land.