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Gasometric Fun

            This is a panoramic taken inside the gasometer park next to our apartment.

Now the kids can ride their bikes and scooters here. We are sitting on a rise in the lawn sitting on oversized concrete beams as seats forming a sort of theatre effect.

The shopping centre is on the RHS of this shot. The pano effect also makes drastic changes to aspect.

A gasometer was used to store (typically) town gas as a holding and pressurisation chamber for distribution. The steel ring frame had a cap that sat on top of the gas and the cap had wheels allowing it to rise and fall depending on the quantity of gas in the chamber.

The important feature of the design was the ability to keep the gas at the suitable pressure as the gas demand varied during the day.

In the first comment is a photo of the groundworks before building started as the whole site was industrial land next to the river. You can see the city at the top. Red arrow points to the gasometer.

Taken in: Australia / Queensland / Brisbane (show map)

Taken on: August 28, 2016

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Groups appears in: • ♣Scapes!! • ♣People Who Love People!!

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