Gasholders

A History in Pictures

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvNational Grid PLC,Russell Thomas,Timur Tatlioglu

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Winner of the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s Publication Award 2025Gasholders became one of the most instantly recognisable and iconic features on the landscape since they first appeared in the early 19th century. Their simple but precise engineering, durability and flexibility allowed then to operate over a span of 200 years. They witnessed times of great social change, from the early years of the industrial revolution, through countless wars, the reign of nine monarchs, strikes, suffrage, switch to natural gas and through the turn of the millennium. Using a mixture of archive and contemporary photographs, engineering drawings, prints, paintings, adverts and diagrams, the book captures the importance of these industrial structures on the English Townscape. From their very earliest beginnings the book captures their place on the gasworks and in wider society. Evolving from simple designs on a small scale through to becoming massive features dominating skylines and becoming local landmarks.Each chapter take a different perspective, covering the different types, the varying landscapes they inhabited, their place in society, the engineers who designed them and the people who built them. It finishes with a glimpse of how they will be reimagined for future generations.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-15
Mått284 x 325 x 21 mm
Vikt1 768 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistoric England
Antal sidor240
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781835538494

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National Grid is an energy company operating in the UK and the US. Our business plays a vital role in connecting millions of people to the energy they use while continually seeking ways to make the energy system cleaner. We enable the innovation that is transforming the energy system. Prof. Russell Thomas (Chapters 1-11) is a Technical Director at WSP and Chair of Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers History Panel. He has worked on former gasworks and gasholder sites through his career, investigating, remediating and documenting their history. In recent years he authored Historic England’s research report on the Manufactured Gas Industry and numerous other publications focused on different aspects of the industry, from forensic science to the conversion programme from town gas to natural gas. Dr. Timur Tatlioglu (Chapter 12) is a Partner in Montagu Evans' Historic Environment and Townscape team. He has particular expertise in advising clients on major and complex projects involving listed buildings, sensitive landscapes, conservation areas and tall buildings. He has provide heritage advice throughout National Grid’s Gasholder Programme.