Certainly exist, existed in the USA, BRuce.
Awful looking things... thouogh curious.
ann
On 1/29/2015 14:22, Bruce Walker wrote:
Fascinating! I'd never heard of these structures. There's nothing like
them in North America, afaik. They look positively steampunk.
Thanks, Bob.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2
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Nostalgia for our industrial heritage, with some nice pictures, here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30405066
I suppose it had to come. Imagine what the land is worth. They could lay out
an Oval "B" CG.
Alan C
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Nostalgia for our industrial
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
There used to be. Most of them have been taken down. Nowadays they use
fixed tanks.
Plug this into Google Maps: 36.072551,-79.93539
Go to Street View and look south. Years ago, those were all expandable
Gasometer tanks. They started replacing them with the fixed tanks in the
mid to late 70s.
On
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
Fascinating! I'd never heard of these structures. There's nothing like
them in North America, afaik. They look positively steampunk.
Thanks, Bob.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Bob W wrote:
> Nostalgia for our industrial heritage, with some nice pictures, here:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/m
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
Nostalgia is all ve
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