'The working class past is vanishing from Ancoats - the gas holders are a last reminder'
To some, east Manchester's gas towers are just relics of a world which no longer exists. They’ve outstayed their welcome, and it’s time for them to go.
READ MORE: Millions were spent on improving Great Ancoats Street. Now some want it taking off the ring road for good Gas holders, or gasometers, such as those on Bradford Road were invented in 1824. They stored large volumes of gas from nearby gas works, with the iron frame surrounding an inner chamber which would lift depending on how much was being stored.
That means the inner chambers are no longer used and just the iconic wrought iron frames remain. These days, even the name of the area east Manchester's gas holders towered over - Bradford, or Bradford-cum-Beswick, is passing into memory, with the regeneration of nearby Ancoats and Miles Platting continuing apace, and the Etihad stadium sitting above the old Bradford coalmine.
So far, the academic has organised site visits for the local community, and is in talks with the Science and Industry Museum to house a section of the towers in its collections. Its curator of engineering, Sarah Baines, said that it has been ‘in conversation’ over a move to ‘record, visit or acquire samples from the site’.
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