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1878 Gas making at Portwood commenced
1969 Old retort house demolished
1988 Gas holder number 3 dismantled
2003 Last aerial view showing the gasometers in the raised position
2019 Removal of gas holders 2 & 3
Thanks to 28 Days Later
The area was formerly a dense web of housing and industry.
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With the gas works at its heart .
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High speed gas once the fuel of the future is almost a thing of the past. Coal Gas produced in coke retorts long gone, North Sea Gas hissed off.
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Low carbon heating will replace domestic boilers from 2025, the need for gas storage holders is minimal.
Goodnight Mr Therm.
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There are currently 53 listed holders on the Historic England site.
Some have been repurposed – WilkinsonEyre has completed work on Gasholders London; a development of 145 apartments within a triplet of listed gasholder guide frames.
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Little now remains of the Portwood Gas Works.
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These are the rearranged remnants re-sited by Dunelm Mill – it’s curtains for our industrial heritage.
What’s left?
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One of the UK’s largest retail parks, Stockport Retail Park benefits from a strategic location on the M60 Manchester orbital motorway making it one of the city’s most accessible parks. The park forms a natural extension to the town centre, offering a wide range of uses from value convenience to fashion and home as well as a number of cafés and restaurants.
This is the post industrial landscape of consumption and its infrastructure that faces the defunct and mothballed site, whatever next?
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