Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Martin (Admin) on January 29, 2015, 10:18:36 am
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Ah, fond memories...
BBC: Will the UK's gas holders be missed?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30405066
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Not this one in Hull, its a listed monument {-)
https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/68102052 (https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/68102052)
If I remember correctly its because it was the first one in the country? I know there was something special about it that gave it listed status.
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It's a shame that they won't be converted into something like housing, offices, retail outlets or leisure venues. Another little bit of our heritage disappears. <:(
DM
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They can't Dave, they are too polluted, people just thought of them as a container, but the gas actually floated on a 'bath' of water to stop it seeping into the ground, but over time that water itself seeped into the surrounding area and polluted that instead. It would take a lot of soil removal to make the area's safe.
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>>:-( The surrounding ground and subsoil will be contaminated with :embarrassed: carcinogenic tar residue .... Derek
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Here's another listed status building in Hull, this time its a bridge :embarrassed: This was the first ferro concrete bridge to be built in the world (1902) Of course all that has happened over time is they filled in underneath it to reinforce the structure and it is now part of a road.
I wonder how many thousands of people must drive or walk over it every day and not realise the history of it! Sad that so much of our history goes unnoticed and uncelebrated for what it is or was.
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It's a shame that they won't be converted into something like housing
Might make a good conservatory with a bit of glazing....
Colin
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Glaze it, fill with water and there you have it
A model submariner heaven. %% %%
Ned
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I prefer the architecture of the Abbey of Westminster
For example
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As already said Re water but it was designed to shed water as the holder rose and fell . In the Large Gap of the actual water tank there were Float valves fitted to replace the displaced water . Not to mention actually blowing the seals when over gassed. We even blew our holder once nice Bang and quite a cocktail of toxic stuff in the water, Which was not supposed? to run onto/into the ground
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Here in Germany they have filled it with water and it is a diving School and they teach Emergency workers how to get people out of crashed cars there, there are a couple of wrecks at the bottom for Training. It is in Oberhausen I think, right close to the Motorway.
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In Northampton, they have removed ours against public opinion to build part of a riverside science park that no one seems to want.
We seem to have a local council bent on the destruction of anything architecturally worthwhile, replacing it with over budget poorly thought through buildings .
Then they trumpet "heritage projects" with large budgets when most of the historical stuff has been cleeared away by them!
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I think the big concern for owners is third party liability. If some twerp decides to use them as an oversized climbing frame, falls off and kills or injures them self. A new trend now is roof culture, climbing on top of roofs and other structures, whilst filming yourself with a mobile phone of Go-Pro type camera.
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I can remember the ones at purley way near Croydon I think .could smell them a mile away good job jerry missed them during the @@@ don't mention the war
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:-)) There is still three at Battersea bright green ones,they have a preservation order on them or they would have been pull down long ago and some ugly yuppie flats replacing them,you can see them from the train leaving Victoria station towards Clapham Junction,god knows what they are doing to the power station I don't hold up much hope by the standards of the buildings they have erected near by,it was an icon of the London riverside and all will be left is the towers and the shell,still if any of you guy's have a spare £1-5 million you might be able to buy one of the flats on the site and the developers say they are affordable,I expect they will be sold to oversea investors who will buy them as an investment and leave them empty like so much of the property in London,I will miss the old skyline of London which is being buried in tall ugly buildings or just knocked down and forgotten and they call it progress,Ray :-)) :-))
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I prefer the architecture of the Abbey of Westminster
For example
Had a Hunch you might or was that Notre Dame ;D
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Gas Holders are no longer needed as the Gas system pressure is going to be pumped up more then it is know by lecy pumps. This way the same size pipework will be used to supply more {-) . Oh and by the way if it gets damaged MORE gas will escape and it will make an even bigger Bang %% . One more thing, your gas Regulator will need replacing the cope with the extra pressure . Who will be paying for that then??? Oh yes You the gas user . But its Ok because the new reg comes with a safety cut off device which can be a right S@d to reset.
Progress ?? im not sure.
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Architecturally it is uninteresting
Technically it is uninteresting
Aesthetically it is uninteresting it interests the one who worked inside, all around, it is everything I had that under my eyes in my childhood .............. yuk
Forget ever either than Westminster, Notre-Dame etc........were built with feet in the bottom
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Architecturally it is uninteresting
Technically it is uninteresting
Aesthetically it is uninteresting it interests the one who worked inside, all around, it is everything I had that under my eyes in my childhood .............. yuk
Yep. These are redundant industrial gas tanks. The current rage for preserving anything that's existed for more than a decade must be satisfied, so fine, keep one somewhere so those who are deeply attached can pay it an annual pilgrimage. For the rest, yes build over the sites - it'll save another few acres of countryside from development.
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I will miss the old skyline of London which is being buried in tall ugly buildings or just knocked down and forgotten and they call it progress
I expect one of your ancestors said the same when they built St Pauls ok2 (http://www.sol.me.uk/icons/pokefun.gif)
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Gas Holders are no longer needed as the Gas system pressure is going to be pumped up more then it is know by lecy pumps.
A similar thing has already happened with water - it's all pumped now and water towers have all fallen out of use. But unlike the gas tanks a lot of water towers are attractive buildings and convert to quite desirable property. (There are exceptions though !)
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:-)) It is now very difficult to see st Pauls from some parts of London with the tall buildings in between,I am not against progress but when there are so many empty buildings in the capital ( the Shard is only a quarter full) why build more,a friend of mine is a security guard who works in a city office block which has been empty for ten years, what a waste of resources,could this be used instead of building more to lay empty,Ray. :-)) :-)) :-))
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when I was at school 1939 at Carshalton beeches you could see st pauls now my sister has told me all you see now are cranes and tall buildings
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In 200 year time the Shard will be a listed building %%
Bowwave
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In 200 year time the Shard will be a listed building %%
Bowwave
Thats IF it hasn't fallen to the ground by then. {-)