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Canalside Gasworks
London, UK - elaine - Saturday, April 16th, 2005 : goo
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Truly these structures have majesty. And what is more than their scale is that their clockworkery has massive visual impact sometimes daily - the tiny wheels that run up the vertical girders facilitate these huge tanks completely filling and emtying right to the top and bottom. It is immensely viscerally satisfying to see. Plus they are not hidden outside the city, these are local to where I live, which is quite central, and I took the last one from outside my apartment block.
When I moved here I was very happy to be near these tanks, and I pass them often on my way along the canal to Viccy Park. The top one is taken canalside, and I have a similar one as the wallpaper on my phone. They are often nearly full, so solid looking structures, then suddenly we had a cold snap and obviously everyone put their central heating on at once and they emptied out quickety quick. This revealed something I really wanted to photograph, the little Buster Keaton ladders on the side. Once in camera these provided that kind of tuned out Homer Simpson style simple fun - I zoomed in to the ladder and scrolled up, and I scrolled down. Up the ladder, down the ladder. The little landings provide perfect little fake animated comedy.
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Marc: 17th Apr 2005 - 06:29 GMT
Re: canalside gasworks
elaine that canal is very special i visited a friends' loft there a couple years ago and those gasworks were full up. they had some free internet access on the roof that we got to check out the view from. what's that neighborhood called again so i can go visit it this summer??
elaine: 17th Apr 2005 - 06:46 GMT
this is Bethnal Green, and, for you Jamie, it is E2. It makes it easy for me to see where i am in the AtoZ, I just look for the circles...I love the canal, you can walk all the way to the river, or go up the river Lee, which is another canal with great light industry relicry, or walk up to ilsington, which i did the other day, with my friend's dog charlie swimming a lot of the way. Unfortunately there is no tow path at kings X so you can't walk that bit, but then it goes past the zoo and beyond
Peter: 18th Apr 2005 - 14:40 GMT
wow, this entry reminds me of the old gasworks that were here in brooklyn... they would inflate with surplus natural gas all summer, when gas was cheap, and then deflate all winter during times of peak use.
small gas works like these dotted america at one time- i recall the city where i grew up having many such cylinders, then rasing them as they upgraded their public utilities from victorian to modern.
as for the cylinders in brooklyn, they were razed on june 17, 2001.
here are the before and after photos:
Peter: 18th Apr 2005 - 15:04 GMT
totally. looks like the puffy clouds are mocking the cylinder's demise, too.
elaine: 18th Apr 2005 - 18:03 GMT
I was trying to post this as the crash happened just after someone posted a really lovely gas worx page, of a defunct US site, are they all decommissioned there now, what's the story? Ours are in use because they are not natural gas, they are from refineries. Scotland got the natural gas.
tenyen: 2nd Jan 2006 - 22:01 GMT
At the same time as I was just gawping at after the
metaverse presented me with this:
www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_Projector.htm
which messes with my head in a different way than:
www.flickr.com/photos/ioerror/74471872/
tenyen - yen.spc.org
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