Photographer's note: 'Site of the oldest surviving gasholder in the world, gasholder No.2 which was built in 1829-1830 to the design of John Kirkham of the Imperial Gas Light Company, an early industrial remnant from the Georgian gas industry. An initial pair of gasholders was erected at Sands End in 1825 by the company engineer Samuel Clegg. The gasholder is a single-lift water-sealed holder in a below-ground brick tank. The diameter is 100 ft with a lift weight of 30 ft and a gas storage capacity of 226,000 cubic feet The tripod form of guide standards were the forerunner of buttress-styled cast-iron standards used and developed until the 1870s whilst the gas bell was particularly innovative with a sophisticated trussing system that became widely used in later gasholder bells. Blacksmith-made wrought-ironwork survives in the bell.'
This is part of the Volume: VF000430 Town Gas Works in England; within the Series: EHC01/305 Town Gas Works in England; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive
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Photographer: Redgrave, Christopher: Historic England
Gas Works
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