The Rise and Fall of the Gasometer 

I used to think there antennas or something legit only seems like scaffolds

I wondered the exact same thing when I visited the UK years ago!

Same re: one in Dublin. Never would have guessed the main tank sinks into the ground.

I was explained like “a big tank rises” so when I actually saw how the tank was but before that I imagined a propane tank on a platform rising😂💀

Literally

I read that in Tom's voice

Stanislav me too

Just did it automatically without thinking

Niki Herl nice. I'm going to research

I used to go to orchestra rehearsals in there!

Ah. That's quite clever.

Story Feet why

Goatfood it's like the rise and fall as in why they became popular and then became less popular and are now being demolished, and then like the physical rise and fall since they would go up when there was more gas in them and go down when there was less gas in them

Jack Rhodes oh God 😕😝😂😊 how embarrassing, I've think I'm turning thick! Thanks!

lunn photos you didn't do it right

Waiting for all the flat earthers now...

@@macky4074 the Shockwave hit the rim and bounced back take that Globe heads

Amazing little fact.

😮 wow

I certainly did know what gasometers were, but I did not know this little fact! Fascinating!

Ethan what pun

Goatfood rise and fall. Like the level of gas.

Vlodec that’s literally what a pun is tho

Took me a couple watches, too.

I knew it was a pun before I clicked.

@skunjobb That is very interesting. There used to be one of these off the I405 in Long Beach, CA.

You were a happy child

+Atomic Robo Tesla. Yes

We had one at the bottom of our school hill that caught fire and we all had to be evacuated to an exclusion zone. It didn't blow up in the end (unfortunately). All that's left now is the burnt frame.

They don't explode, only catch fire.

One blew up at Valby back in 1964. 100 000 window panes were broken in a 5 km radius.

Also sold to Aga users.

And residences. The price was less than coal because around 1/2 the energy was gone.

And the coke was then bottled and sold to consumers to quench their thirst.

I remember ‘cooking’ coal in a chemistry lesson to identify the gas that came off - blimey the lab smelled just like a gasworks, horrible.

Ok Albert

+ID:107 Here in Dedemsvaart, the Netherlands too.

Missread that as "a malfunctioning auditorium".

Same in Germany, Oberhausen. Probably one of the most famous one

Coke was indeed a by-product of making town gas. The iron & steel Industry required huge amounts of coke so it was made specially in coking plants, the by-product was town gas, although I'm not sure if they actually fed it into the local gas system or used it to roast more coal.

And this is why coke a cola has gone up in price as we move to renuable energay sources.

Wow, there's a difference between coke and coal? Since I only ever heard my parents and other trashy people use the term "coke", I always assumed that it's the slang term for "coal"... Learning so much today... ;)

Coke definitely was a by product of the gas industry and it was dirt cheap. Before the days of Health and Safety dad used to send us to the gasworks with an old pram and for a few pennies beer money the chargehand would let us pull the chute lever and drop half a hundredweight of coke at about a 100 degrees into it.

@@notthere83 Yes coke is an extremely pure fuel almost entirely carbon made by roasting coal without Oxygen to drive out the impurities like sulphides etc. The resulting product burns quite a lot hotter so it's useful for things like blast furnaces that need to burn at very high intensity.

And at once you gave voice to all our minds!

nicholas keane I think an odd shaped room IS cool.

Kombaiyashii kaisaer sousae

Wouldn't that be quite easy after a handful of times though, when you all know exactly when it comes up? Assuming, of course, you didn't suffer from dementia

Yeah

Whole reason I scrolled through the comments

Literally just type that. So I'm not seeing/hearing things.

you commented this twice a year apart

Where? The ones on Gypsy lane and the one on Great Western Way have all gone.

cjmillsnun Turns out we may not have any after all. I walk along Gypsy Lane every day to work, and could have sworn there was at least one still there, but when I made a point of looking, as a result of commenting here, it turned out that they had in fact all but gone.

0dWHOHWb0 not that dad, you had a dad

Another lesson, which you may have already learned after 3 years, is you don't need to say why after you say hence.

They are gas holders, you are right - but they are called gasometers.

As far as the general public were concerned, we always called them gasometers. "Gas holders" seems to be the technical term only used within the industry.

No more dying of carbon monoxide poisoning from leaving the gas on.

Decimalisation was a big deal - the price of a Cadbury's Flash bar went from 2d to 2p overnight, a 140% price increase!

what year was that?

You could have looked up the area on Google Maps... I'm sure it would be listed as a Point Of Interest.

I've heard of the Dresden Panometer by Yadegar Asisi. I bet it is amazing to see in person.

Oberhausen

I pass one of them, I think, every time I go into Helsinki from Kotka: iirc, one of them's a mustard-coloured thing with the white bindings/linings on it,yes?

David Andrews Yes, it matches your description. If you search for "Suvilahden kaasukello" in Google's image search, you'll find a picture of it. Suvilahti was a former energy production zone located in Sörnäinen, an eastern district of Helsinki. Suvilahti is now forming into a cultural centre, but the two gasometers as well as 9 other buildings related to the production of gas or electricity still stand there. They actually cleaned the insides of the gasometer you mentioned. It contained a lot of terribly contaminated water which couldn't have been directly poured into the sewer without severe filtrations. 20 750 cubes of contaminated water was successfully removed and filtrated from within the gasometer, but according to experts it still contains approximately 400 cubic meters of water contaminated with PAH compounds, heavy metals, cyanide and mineral oil. It's not certain if people can ever visit inside the gasometer due to this hazardous contamination. The gasometers will apparently not be demolished, as they are protected by the Finnish National Board of Antiquities. It has been estimated that repairing the gasometer well enough to accommodate visitors would cost ~8.7 million euros. So far efforts will only be made to make it look good on the outside. The work is scheduled to begin this year. Suvilahti, translated directly, means "Summer bay" (suvi is a poetic/rarely used Finnish word for summer and lahti stands for bay). A very fitting name for a highly contaminated industrial zone.

Yes! The Metro train passes it before heading to the station there.... Thank you :) And yeh - great name for such a place :P

+DocWiltshire Nope Hampshire actually

Louis Gordon Southampton?

There is one in Sheffield

Louis Gordon something that stores gas smells of gas??

@@invalide something people might not know, gas itself does not smell of anything - they add Butyl Mercaptan to make a very easy to detect and distinct smell to make leaks easier to smell.

also, our whole gas works is a heritage listed building, but it hasn't been restored at all, so it is slowly being reclaimed by ivy and trees, and is unsafe and illegal for anyone to do anything about it.

No point heating the house when everybody's out at work and school.

milksheihk There's some in my town as well.

+milksheihk One in my city was still operating when I was wee, in the late 90s. My dad would occasionally take me to the roof, or the hill that overlooks the whole city, and point it out - it would sometimes be full, sometimes, be nearly empty and the top would be quite low down.

I recently discovered that the reason the one in my town wasn't demolished & is all fenced in & locked up is because old gasworks of this type are full of toxic tars & to use excavators or other demolition equipment that disturbs the soil will spread the toxic tars.

We had them too. There's a few still about. Some have been preserved and converted to public spaces.

They were common in Australia until there were replaced by Natural Gas piped directly from the gas wells., we had 3 of them nearby at the Highett Gas works opposite Southland shopping centre in Melbourne which is now a park, before that homes used "rock gas" (acetylene) but it was even more dangerous.

Used to be a couple in Dunedin.

"A lot" - two words - not "alot". There's no such word as "alot". Sorry, it's late and I'm feeling pedantic.

Yeah same here

Nick Dawson what pun

Goatfood Gasometers go up and down? "Rise and fall"? Eh?

Nick Dawson yeah ha ha someone explained it to me, thanks. I think I'm turning stupid smh

There were a couple between the villages of Shelley and Shepley south of Huddersfield