Comments on: The Last Gasometer In Poplar https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/06/the-last-gasometer-in-poplar/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: josefina muñoz https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/06/the-last-gasometer-in-poplar/#comment-1172373 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:09:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160697#comment-1172373 “Progress” does away with everything. I see the series Call the midwife, which is located in East End, in Poplar, especially because it allows to see the neighborhood and the people, the new inhabitants from other lands. Of course, every day I read the wonderful blog of The gentle author, because it illuminates the day.

]]> By: Louis Berk https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/06/the-last-gasometer-in-poplar/#comment-1172368 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:34:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160697#comment-1172368 I wonder if they are looking at how the Kings Cross gasholders have been repurposed and resited. It seems to have worked for Camden.

]]> By: Peter Gray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/06/the-last-gasometer-in-poplar/#comment-1172367 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:57:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160697#comment-1172367 I assume that we no longer need gasometers to store domestic gas supplies? If that’s the case, I still don’t see why we have to get rid of everything that is considered old and ugly and useless. After all, if that was the case we would’nt have any members of the Conservative party left!

]]> By: Linda Salter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/06/the-last-gasometer-in-poplar/#comment-1172335 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 06:44:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160697#comment-1172335 In Salisbury, we have a gasometer which is being demolished. It is going from the bottom section which has now partially Breen taken off site. Not in a favoured part of the city and currently the land used by P.O. for parking. Houses planned I believe. Hoping some will beer affordable but our biggest problem in this part is – parking!

]]> By: Marion https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/06/the-last-gasometer-in-poplar/#comment-1172333 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 06:27:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160697#comment-1172333 I grew up in a suburb in Sydney called Mortlake. Mortlake was the home of the gasworks of the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL). Within its complex it had 3 gas holders, one of which was the second largest gas holder ever built in the world, with a volume (capacity) of 12,750,000 cubic feet or 361,000 cubic metres. It was built in 1917.
We could look out our front door and see the gas holders from a short distance, and watch how the the holders expanded or not, depending on the volume inside.
It’s funny, because whilst we didn’t give them much thought whilst playing outside on the streets, in some way they were a constant presence, because I can’t think about my old suburb, and childhood without the gasworks being part of those cherished memories.

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/06/the-last-gasometer-in-poplar/#comment-1172298 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 02:56:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160697#comment-1172298 As a historian and former Meccano nut I find much that tugs a heart string in what you write, GA, but …

I’ve tried to love these structures, yet can’t. Their lack of human proportion and blatant crash-landing into any vista disturbs me. Similarly, I’m sure the electricity pylon’s going will be mourned some day, but not by me (weirdly, I have no problem with wind turbines, perhaps because of their current, parlous necessity). The council’s alleged plan to retain the skeleton in green space would, to me, only have spoiled the latter.

Aesthetic appreciation is a very personal thing, and I’m sure plenty of folk will think I’m down with the mulligrubs.

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