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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