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Glasgow, Helen Street, Gasworks
Gas Holder Station (Modern), Gas Works (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, Helen Street, Gasworks
Classification Gas Holder Station (Modern), Gas Works (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Helen Street Gas Holder Station
Canmore ID 44338
Site Number NS56SE 73
NGR NS 55060 64420
NGR Description Centred NS 55060 64420
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44338
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56SE 73 centred 55060 64420
Gasholder [NAT] (at NS 55060 64420)
OS 1:1250 map, 1968.
This gasworks is not noted by J R Hume (1974). The 1968 edition of the OS 1:1250 map depicts only a single gasholder, indicating that the site had been converted to a gas holder station by that date.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 December 2005.
Standing Building Recording (July 2022 - August 2022)
NS 55067 64410 A survey was carried out of a redundant gasholder at Helen Street to the W of the city of Glasgow on July and August 2022. The work has been undertaken as part of a wider programme involving the decommissioning and dismantling of the remaining redundant gasholders in the UK operated by SGN.
Gasholder No 1 is a spiral-guided gasholder, which was constructed in 1949, a relatively late example of its type. The original gasworks buildings have all been removed, although several late 20th-century structures, related to the later operation and monitoring of the gasholder, are located to the SE side of the compound. In addition, a large red brick electricity sub- station is located to the N of the gasholder, and this dates to the 1950s/60s. This was a former booster house, anti-freeze room and meter house.
Archive: NRHE (intended) Funder: SGN
Diana Sproat – AOC Archaeology Group
(Source: DES Volume 23)
