Job: Bethnal Green Gasworks, Marian Place, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, Greater London

Date:
2 Feb 2021
Location:
Bethnal Green Gasworks, Marian Place, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority
Reference:
2K/32082
Type:
Job containing Electronic material
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Description

Photographer's note: 'The site was established by the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company in 1853 to store gas for their Shoreditch works, which was located a short distance to the west on what is now Haggerston Park'. Gasholder no.5 of 1889 has a lattice girder guide frame built by the firm Samuel Cutler and Sons of Millwall. No. 2 dates from 1866 and is the oldest surviving example of a classical columnar guide frame in the world.

Content

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

This Job is divided into 22 Child Records
This Job contains the following materials:
Photograph (Digital): 22

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Redgrave, Christopher: Historic England

Keywords

Gas Works