View looking NNE showing S gasholder with central gasholder in background at Aberdeen Gas Works.

Description View looking NNE showing S gasholder with central gasholder in background at Aberdeen Gas Works.

Date 3/3/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 717868

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Aberdeen Gas Works, Cotton Street, Aberdeen This works was founded in 1840 as a private venture, and was purchased in 1871 by Aberdeen Town Council. It was converted to vertical-retort operation, probably in the inter-war period, but closed in 1972. It had its own locomotives to bring coal from the docks or from Guild Street Goods Station. This shows the two old gas-holders surviving at the works in 1970. These have cast iron columns supporting the guide rails for the tanks, and from the character of their design were probably installed soon after the acquisition of the works by the Town Council. This works was one of the last large vertical-retort works in Scotland, and was not closed until 1972. The locomotives surviving at closure have all been preserved, as have two of the exhauster engines. Most, if not all, of the rest of the works has been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/5/16

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