Timelapse video of a gasometer outside my window. 2005. Camera and editing: Steve Pemberton. Music: "Blade" by AKM Music.
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@SuperMok682 жыл бұрын
That is me and my mate working on that gasholder. They were a fantastic piece of engineering. It looks as if we were checking all alarms and making sure that it was safe to put to work. The cycle of a gasholder is that at night it fills when demand is low and will start to empty around five thirty in the morning to assist with demand. There were many safety devices that would be monitored by grid control and were a source of many callouts to high alarms low alarms and many others. This holder was relatively small only being two lifts, the larger ones were between three and four lifts. This holder was an above ground holder spiral guided. Some are column guided. The lifts as they rise pick up water from the tank to provide a seal the seal of water being above the pressure that the holder throws at it high point. Weight of each lift produces the pressure. Each lift had heaters to prevent ice forming in the seals in extreme cold weather. Conversely in warmer weather with no demand Sun gas was a problem as the heat would cause the holder to rise sometimes to it's high alarm setting. There was much more to them than just an old sometimes rusty hulk but it was a great job looking after them. Sadly they are now virtually all gone.
@StevenJPemberton2 жыл бұрын
Small world :-) Thanks for this information - very interesting.
@billsauer3164 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!!
@WhatALovelyDisaster Жыл бұрын
This is so fascinating thanks for sharing!
@aleonard44264 ай бұрын
what kind of noise did the lifts make?
@DanielDaaar6 жыл бұрын
Tom Scott anyone?
@patriciomunoz28305 жыл бұрын
Lol came just from there
@nangotoman94293 жыл бұрын
Yesss!!
@douglastytko95723 жыл бұрын
yep
@Arado1593 жыл бұрын
I came from the channel Technology Connections (from a video on gas lamps).
@Amjo904 ай бұрын
Yess
@sloblock197210 жыл бұрын
You really can find just about anything on KZbin! My 3 year old son has developed an obsession with the derelict one of these just down the road from where we live and I wanted to show him one in operation. Now he knows what they do! Thanks for sharing :)
@Nitrxgen5 жыл бұрын
as an urban explorer, I climb them while they still exist
@rybolfc5 жыл бұрын
As a kid growing up I was always fascinated by gasometers due to always walking/getting driven past them for a section of my life! We still do have two working gasometers in Bootle, Merseyside.
@fruitella1964 жыл бұрын
nitrxgen done the Southampton ones yet?
@lolnamelollastname97882 жыл бұрын
BBC Sounds has an episode about gasometers in The Boring Talks!
@ashthegreat12 жыл бұрын
Newstead (Brisbane) resident here for the exact same reason.
@selinagonza11868 жыл бұрын
this is so cool and scary at the same time. i have a gas holder directly behing my garden and I've always wondered how they worked. thanks
@originaluddite7 жыл бұрын
Only found out that these things move today while reading about them. I'm from Australia and we have few if any, but I was in the UK recently and saw plenty (mostly disused) which got me curious. Amazing to have a part of the urban landscape that is so dynamic.
@robwebster48952 жыл бұрын
There's one in Brisbane. I'm guessing it's been decommissioned, but it still stands, at least partially, and is at the heart of the Gasworks Pcct at Newstead
@originaluddite2 жыл бұрын
Cool.
@robertleeimages Жыл бұрын
1 near me in Bendigo Central Victoria, its being preserved and recently had a huge tidy up of the grounds and have started giving tours. It only ceased operation in 1973, and was used as a dumping ground for bulky things by council and even old trams of which some are still there waiting for restoration
@originaluddite Жыл бұрын
@@robertleeimages how cool. May have to check it out next time I go there.
@DavidJones-nf3de2 жыл бұрын
Superb video, looks just like the one outside the window of an office I worked at, never could actually perceive it moving, just noticed that at some points of the day a lot of the buildings behind were suddenly visible. This was in 2010 so they can't have all been defunct that long.
@BigKelvPark8 жыл бұрын
Great vid. I had to explain to a young apprentice what the accumulator was. Currently being cut down in Norwich. A triumph on Victorian engineering.
@StevenJPemberton8 жыл бұрын
+Kelvin Park Thanks. I'm glad you found it useful :-)
@QKicks3 жыл бұрын
for a while I thought it showed the construction of one. I was wondering why they build it so oddly from the bottom up lifting the entire thing. then it started sinking down. what the heck man. they just move like that
@garaiselvis3 жыл бұрын
The same
@krashd2 жыл бұрын
What fills up must empty out.
@metalmicky2 жыл бұрын
You always tell when you were in for a cold spell because the containers would be filled up (up high ) to cope with predicted demand.
@justinbyers744310 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this, I've always wanted to see these in operation. We don't have these in America
@zeddeka4 жыл бұрын
Yup, you do. There are several in Philadelphia alone.
@ARSZLB2 жыл бұрын
yeah there’s plenty here, wtf are you talking about
@emotivepiano2 жыл бұрын
This brings back some memories, thanks for the upload (I think!). This type of gas holder, without a surrounding frame, is like the dark and brown, forbidding behemoths towering over the towns I've lived in. I guess they were cheaper to construct than the ones surronded by girders but I always thought couldn't they have painted the outside or even rented it out as advertising space to brighten it up?
@kenkahre92624 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I've al;ways wondered exactly how these worked. Just never could visualize it.
@maestro66uk9 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video
@StevenJPemberton15 жыл бұрын
Can you see them move in real time? Maybe if you're very patient :-) I've never seen it happen.
@MrStr8den3 жыл бұрын
I could spend a summer's day with a flask and sandwich watching one of these
@ylette4 жыл бұрын
Never knew they rotated.
@whitemonkey79324 ай бұрын
Have runners....it stops them kicking over as they move
@charliecharliecharliecharl85546 ай бұрын
I remember walking up one f two near me and seeing water all round the joints and told the water was used as a seal
@Hypohair5 жыл бұрын
Is great, you don't notice this at their normal movement rates. Fascinating and a little scary lol
@jagc19692 жыл бұрын
There are steel works nearby and they have two gasometers, one per blast furnace. But these gasometers never move. They have an internal diaphragm that does the job, but you never see any movement.
@batsondceiling11 жыл бұрын
Nice place for a rooftop restaurant.
@DonHavjuan4 жыл бұрын
We haven't had these since the 1960s but you still see the frames around.
@zeddeka4 жыл бұрын
They were still in service in many parts of the UK well past the 1960s, indeed, into the early 2000s at least in some places. In the 1990s, the IRA tried to bomb some of them in the North east.
@imkirbo30943 жыл бұрын
We had these still in operation in the early 2000s in the UK.
@strdown11 жыл бұрын
Where abouts is this? Borehamwood?
@StevenJPemberton11 жыл бұрын
Not quite as glamorous a location as the restaurant in "Fast Food", but I can see the attraction :-)
@UKWMO2 жыл бұрын
I remember the argument I had with a work colleague who wouldn’t believe the Gasometer opposite our office would change in height depending on the gas levels. He was dumbfounded when he realised I was right.
@laraj7773 жыл бұрын
I remember a movie with Ralph Fiennes about lonely man with mental illness where home that person localized just near that awful gas holder making awful sound.
@StevenJPemberton11 жыл бұрын
Yep - Station Road.
@aleonard44264 ай бұрын
Hey, Steve , cool video! What kind of sounds did the gasometer make? Was it loud? Do you have any audio of the thing itself?
@StevenJPemberton4 ай бұрын
Thanks. I'm afraid I don't have any audio to go with this. I don't recall ever hearing the gasometers make a sound, though there's a railway station on the other side of picture, so if they did make a sound, I'd probably have assumed it was a train. They move much more slowly than shown in this video, and I think the moving parts sit in a bath of oil, which would tend to absorb sound. My guess is either they don't make a sound, or any sound they do make is too low for humans to hear.
@BenevoIence7 жыл бұрын
That's pretty cool
@instakillgaming Жыл бұрын
Tom scott brought me here
@tsitracommunications2884 Жыл бұрын
Did some gasometers have red lights on the sides at night?
@martytrain9 жыл бұрын
Are there any gas holders that rise like this anywhere left in the UK? They all appear to be down these days waiting demolition!
@StevenJPemberton9 жыл бұрын
Martin H The one in the video is still there, though I don't know if it still goes up and down. It's due to be demolished later this year, probably to make way for flats.
@martytrain9 жыл бұрын
Thanks Steve, allot of these Holders are out of use now, everyone I,ve visited in Berkshire are down, just hoped perhaps some might still be used but its looking like time is up.
@StevenJPemberton9 жыл бұрын
+Martin H We had a letter about the demolition yesterday that said this gas holder hasn't held gas since the 1990s, so I don't know why it was moving in 2005...
@turbodistortionirmc7 жыл бұрын
Mystery
@borehamwoodcc5 жыл бұрын
@J Brown That sounds plausible. And yes, the gas holder was demolished a couple of years ago. The flats that replaced it are just about finished and have gone on sale.
@turbodistortionirmc7 жыл бұрын
Nice
@Omlet2213 жыл бұрын
Why does it spin?
@StevenJPemberton3 жыл бұрын
I don't know. Maybe it allows for a tighter seal than if the top goes straight up and down?
@anelpasic52322 жыл бұрын
It's so that it doesn't kink and get stuck.
@thedave776011 ай бұрын
if you still have the original jpgs you will be able to make a much better video now days as opposed to 15 years ago, send them to me and i will do it for you and send it back.