Now I grant you they may not seem the most compelling things to write about or indeed to asdmire.
But if you are of a certain age and lived close to a city or town centre they will have been part of the landscape.
I grew up near one and lived close to another when we occupied a flat in east Manchester.
Most of us will have taken them for granted and yet in their way they were a marvel of the 19th century and as much an symbol of that period as the steam engine or the dark satanic mills.
Until recently I have no idea there had been one on King Street West near the House of Fraser although I do have a fine picture of the coking room of the one on Rochdale Road.
Once the manufacture and storage of “town gas” was an essential part of each town and city and were just taken for granted.
So here in a new series are two pictures of the one in east Manchester from the camera of John Casey dating from the 1980s.
Be warned ............ more will follow.
Location; East Manchester
Pictures; the gasholder in east Manchester, 1980s from the collection of John Casey
*Gasholders, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Gasholders
I grew up near one and lived close to another when we occupied a flat in east Manchester.
Most of us will have taken them for granted and yet in their way they were a marvel of the 19th century and as much an symbol of that period as the steam engine or the dark satanic mills.
Until recently I have no idea there had been one on King Street West near the House of Fraser although I do have a fine picture of the coking room of the one on Rochdale Road.
So here in a new series are two pictures of the one in east Manchester from the camera of John Casey dating from the 1980s.
Be warned ............ more will follow.
Location; East Manchester
Pictures; the gasholder in east Manchester, 1980s from the collection of John Casey
*Gasholders, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Gasholders
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