On Jan 29, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Bob W wrote: > >> Nostalgia for our industrial heritage, with some nice pictures, here: >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30405066 >> >> There's a very good-looking one, built in 1886, close to where I live. It >> was once the largest in the world: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Greenwich_Gas_Works > > They had one of those in the late 1970's near where I lived in > Rochester (NY). It was torn down shortly after my family moved there. > Damned ugly things. >
I grew up in the Boston area between 1952 and 1960. These "gas houses" as I called them, were scattered throughout Newton, Cambridge, Boston and the South End (Southie). They seemed oily and dirty. I never took the time to ask how they worked. Thanks for the BBC explanation! J J McA -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
