Demolition of Stockton Gasworks

This photograph shows the area of Stockton Gasworks during demolition. Courtesy of Terry Westwood.

Comments:

Mike Renwick

What happened to the area that the "gashouse" stood on, has it been redeveloped? If so, any problems manifest themselves during any decontamination that took place? I used to pass this site, whilst it was still operational, on my way to school. Over the railway footbridge near to the somewhat inappropriately named Primrose Hill.25/02/2010 18:36:30

Len Nicholson

I don't recall this chimney being in the Gasworks, but there was one in the Council yard in Richmond Street.02/03/2010 09:39:21

Derek Casey

Think your bang on Len, I worked at J.Downings iron foundry and directly behind us was the council yard. I knew a few men who worked there, sometimes I would climb on our foundry roof, it wasn't very high and I could shout over at the lads I knew. I remember the big chimney in the council yard, this was during the 60s. 02/03/2010 13:59:51

J Mead

That chimney stack was indeed in the corner of the corporation yard. I often used to go in there in the fifties with my dad (Jack Meadows), who worked for the council driving a refuse truck. One use of the chimney was to burn the bodies of dogs and cats which had been put down in a gas chamber in the same building.04/03/2010 00:46:44

Anon

When the animals(dogs & cats) became old, seriously ill or unwanted they used to take them to this yard & have them put to sleep for a shilling, needless to say it was called the Destructors Yard.05/03/2010 15:55:03

Phil Rambert

I too remember when growing up, there was always someone taking a sick old dog down to the yard for a 'bobs worth' of gas? That's what we were told - I don't know if that was true or not.08/03/2010 11:42:15

F Starr

I went down there once, with a mate and his dog, but I thought it was part of the gas works. I think that the man who "looked after" the dogs and cats must have had one of the worst jobs on the site. 08/03/2010 12:06:38

J Herbert

This chimney was in the Corporation Yard between the gas works & Clarence Iron Foundry. The chimney was at one end of a long low building that was marked on the O.S. maps as "Refuse Destructor" i.e. an early incinerator for the towns rubbish.17/03/2010 16:29:13






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