Huddersfield's last remaining gas holder is in the process of being pulled down. Work to dismantle the familiar landmark on the town's skyline recently started on Gasworks Street, off Leeds Road. The ...

Gas holders are also known as gasometers, a term coined by the inventor of gas lighting, William Murdoch. To the disgruntlement of his contemporaries, who complained that this so-called gasometer was ...

The giant gray cylinder has loomed over the North Baltimore landscape for decades, providing heating gas for city homes and a familiar landmark for drivers on the Jones Falls Expressway. Soon it will ...

PART of Bolton's history will be safeguarded after items from the town's iconic gasometers were donated to a museum. Three marker plaques from the gas holders in Spa Road, which are currently being ...

Terex builds special-purpose CTT 91 TS12 tower crane to fit inside the gas holder and will remain in place once construction is complete The Wuppertal gas holder is not just a formidable relic of the ...

Gas holders began dotting the British landscape in the 19th century and were used to store large volumes of coal gas up until 1965 when natural gas was discovered in the North Sea. The latter, ...

In the 200 years that the UK has been using gas power, the country has got used to the distinctive sight of "gasometers". These gas holders have stored coal gas (town gas) and later natural gas for ...