Tsk at least one transplanted Geordie made it back and looked
Dave
>What do you mean 'remember the days when the gasometer dominated the
>skyline' ?? One of the reasons I wrote the book on the early gas
>industry was that so much of it is still with us and going fast
>
>.. I don't suppose most of you bothered to come down to the Dome ...
>if you had you would have seen it overshadowed by George Livesey's
>wonderful gas holder - austere, practical and the largest in the
>world .... not gone, just forgotten.
>
>Mary
>
>
>
> > > How many of us, I wonder, can remember the days when the gasometer
>> dominated the skyline?
>>
>>And you received two images on your tv screen when gas pressure
>>was high because the signal "bounced"...
>>
>> When every town had its gas works and when streets
>> were lit by gas which had to be lit at night and extinguished in the morning
>> by a man who rode round on his bicycle.
>>
>>Were switched off at 22.00hrs in my old home town.
>>
>> When gas was the means of lighting the house,
>>
>>When I moved into my mainly unmodernised Victorian house in 1979,
>>the bathroom had a gas mantle in situ. Because I was planning on
>>redesigning the bathroom and enlarging it, there was no electric
>>light in there for a while so I used the gas. The house got "the
>>electric in 1934 (the newspaper in amongst all the bits of cable
>>under the floor are of that date) but for some reason the gas was
>>left in the bathroom.
>>I had forgotten what a nice soft light it is, much nicer than the
>>harsh electric lights.
>>It brought back memories of school and the way the number of kids
>>needing glasses shot up when electric replaced gas lights.
>>
>>It's a bit of a shock sometimes to realise that things that
>>happened to us "just the other year" are in fact heritage or
>>history...
>>
>>Hazel Fleming.
>
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