After his father was horribly killed in a gasworks accident, the 13-year-old David and his mother were left in considerable hardship. |
The South Metropolitan Gas Works were built here in 1889, once the largest gasworks in Europe. |
It was later marketed by the authority in conjunction with the gasworks site, currently being developed for housing and a new hotel, but there were no takers. |
I was going like a bomb with those two birds from the gasworks before I tried your Jimmy Cagney Routine. |
Over Monk Bridge, which was widened in the 1900s, we pass the site of the enlarged gasworks, long since demolished. |
The normal explanations for the Bonnybridge sightings are the proximity of Edinburgh airport and the gasworks at nearby Grangemouth. |