The South Metropolitan Gas Works were built here in 1889, once the largest gasworks in Europe. |
After his father was horribly killed in a gasworks accident, the 13-year-old David and his mother were left in considerable hardship. |
When he was just 12, his father, a gasworks foreman, suffered an horrific industrial accident and died later in hospital. |
I used to get up early to watch the trams get steam up using coke from the old Christchurch gasworks. |
This was otherwise a rotten location, an inaccessible brownfield site heavily contaminated by what had been the largest gasworks in Europe. |
Three large mill buildings stand in a U shape around a courtyard which contains the earliest extant gasworks chimney in Scotland. |