Comments on: So Long, Bethnal Green Gasometers

By: Marcia Taylor

Marcia Taylor — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:00:40 +0000

We have one in Southampton and they plan to take it down ! I’ve always seen it as a friendly kind of sculpture . Land is so valuable and soon it will be on more !

By: Dave Phillips

Dave Phillips — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:24:26 +0000

Ah… just over the ditch from Empress Coaches. You’ve taught me well! Thank You for providing one of the absolute best blogs Ever in human history. Cheers! Dave

By: Helen Thompson

Helen Thompson — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:46:51 +0000

I have always found these structures intriguing, and have only ever seen one from a distance (around the O2 Arena area) But I had no idea how very beautiful and detailed they are close up, it would be a great shame if they were totally lost.

By: Leslie Holeyman

Leslie Holeyman — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:15:17 +0000

Just brought a book out called It’s Been A Gas on my years working within the Kent Gas district where we maintained these sites. Freely available on Kent libraries or inter library loans.

By: Peter J Washington

Peter J Washington — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:49:38 +0000

Kings Cross estate, we converted their existing gasometers skeleton into new apartments as they were listed, no reason as why not these ladies can’t be the same.

By: Eric Forward

Eric Forward — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:39:42 +0000

Sad news indeed. Iconic and have provided the backdrop in many a film, TV series, advert, magazine and book cover. Is certainly one of my favourite stretches of the canal. Here’s hoping they do it some justice.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:08:23 +0000

Beautiful totemic structures that bind us, in a positive way, to the past. Should’ve been listed.
Progress? Bah! So long.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:49:08 +0000

Such a sad fate for these majestic structures.. they have a quiet beauty all their own.

I live near the site of some similar – disused for many years and demolished pre-pandemic, with approval of the local council. The reason? Promises of a new care home.
The empty site now destined to be left as fly-tipped waste ground for years. The reason? It has proved ‘too costly’ to decontaminate the land. So predictable..

By: Annie S

Annie S — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:28:54 +0000

I sincerely hope the gasometer structures are going to be incorporated with the new buildings!
I went to a planning consultation on the site a few years ago and the developers said they intended to keep them.
They are a wonderful iconic feature of the area.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:00:37 +0000

Now that’s the strangest thing: I am nearly 70, so these structures have accompanied me throughout my lifetime, yet never before have I appreciated their beauty, nor their age. These photos bring them closer for me to examine the ornate and – almost – delicate nature of the ironwork. Something that I never viewed in such a way before I now see differently and more appreciatively, having always previously considered them – and virtually disregarded – a necessary evil, as I encircled them during my daily life.