George Henry Lee closed didn't it, sure it's TKMaxx in there now    but I haven't been in the city for a long time.  The new John Lewis is a bit of a hike down town and the Chester one closed down unfortunately.   I bought my telly from John Lewis on line and they gave me a 5 year guarantee.   
I'm rambling again......  

Sorry Alex, I had a senior moment and should have said John Lewis.  I haven't been over to Liverpool for years but may go soon for some holiday clothes.

Quote from: klondike on November 21, 2022, 09:12:11 AMThere were a couple not far from me that went a long time back.

I thought they were storage but Wikipedia says they were pressure controllers. I can only guess that they were replaced with some smaller gizmo that didn't require a football pitch worth of space in a prime location. Not sure how prime the location here was though as there have been several abandoned developments on the space one of them took up with another that only exists on posters so far.


They got fed up with the tagging and the whole extent of the fencing is now covered with more professional looking graffiti - there was a team of about a dozen doing it over a weekend a couple of months back.

The land where gasometers/holders stood was often contaminated, expensive to clean up. 

I like that type of street art klondike, there's an excellent 'grafitti trail' in Sheffield too.

It looks better than the tagging for sure. Far too much of that about in these parts.

Quote from: Scrumpy on November 21, 2022, 09:57:43 AMWe had some in the next town.. The Germans tried to target them in the last war.. but missed.. Just imagine had they been hit.. !!

I must get the vacuum cleaner out today.. and use it..
Cold chicken for lunch...

In 1944 we lived in Walton on Thames and the two gasholders were hit by German incendiaries - hell of a fire.
I have always understood them be storage facilities - certainly you would see them going up and down over time and they were always called gasometers and gasholders.

Quote from: Michael Rolls on November 22, 2022, 09:54:35 AMIn 1944 we lived in Walton on Thames and the two gasholders were hit by German incendiaries - hell of a fire.
I have always understood them be storage facilities - certainly you would see them going up and down over time and they were always called gasometers and gasholders.

They were storage facilities designed to pressurise the gas main.

They were in pairs since when one was refilling the other was supplying the gas.

Quote from: Michael Rolls on November 22, 2022, 09:54:35 AMI have always understood them be storage facilities - certainly you would see them going up and down over time and they were always called gasometers and gasholders.

Me too and they maybe were but ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_holder

Gas holders now tend to be used for balancing purposes to ensure that gas pipes can be operated within a safe range of pressures, rather than for actually storing gas for later use.

I think the ones near me were originally associated with a plant that made Coal Gas but they were still used well into the North Sea gas era

November 22, 2022, 10:12:34 AM

Quote from: Diasi on November 22, 2022, 10:07:04 AMThey were storage facilities designed to pressurise the gas main.

They were in pairs since when one was refilling the other was supplying the gas.

Makes sense. There were actually 4 there I think. Two on that site and a couple on a site across the road. Probably one big site as the road is relatively new as wasn't there at all about 30 years ago. There is a big abandonned office building nearby. No signage now but it used to say either coal or gas something or other years back.

Sunshine.. went for a walk before popping into the shop.. 
They had eggs..

Spent a frustrating 10 minutes trying to track down a coffee cup. Looked in all the usual places (under sink, in fridge, on the stairs, etc.) Turned up on the just below eye level kitchen window sill. I think I'm past my best before date but at least I knew it was missing.

Today I'm popping out to return a cash register I bought on Saturday in Matalan Bromborough, I'm hoping they'll take it back in Chester, they should do shouldn't they ?

This will sound strange, or maybe not for me but reading about the mystery of Klondy's cup,  I've lost a Pyrex dish.   I've got the lid, but have no idea what happened to the bottom   

It will be sure to turn up and you'll wonder why you never saw it. I lost a letter for weeks. that was on a window sill too. If I get distracted I put things down just about anywhere then for some reason just don't see them.

I mislaid a whiskey ...
I seldom drink but I was not sleeping too well so I poured myself a small drink.. I got ready for bed and looked for the drink I had made.. I couldn't find it.. I thought that  I might have drank it down (in one ) at some point .. 
I settled down in bed and slept really well.. Must have been the whiskey !! 
I found the tot of whiskey on a window sill in the downstairs closet .. 

That was the window sill my letter was on. I'd probably been reading it on the throne.

Just completed my second hour as an energy saver. I see the amount per kWh saved they are offering this time has dropped and the hour was moved to 17:30 to 18:30. I spent about half of it listening to an audiobook and the other half catching up on posts here. If I'm lucky I'll get 40p. The main reason I joined this one was to see how much the uptake will have dropped when people realising all they'll get is coppers.

Quote from: klondike on November 22, 2022, 10:09:42 AMMe too and they maybe were but ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_holder

Gas holders now tend to be used for balancing purposes to ensure that gas pipes can be operated within a safe range of pressures, rather than for actually storing gas for later use.

I think the ones near me were originally associated with a plant that made Coal Gas but they were still used well into the North Sea gas era

November 22, 2022, 10:12:34 AMMakes sense. There were actually 4 there I think. Two on that site and a couple on a site across the road. Probably one big site as the road is relatively new as wasn't there at all about 30 years ago. There is a big abandonned office building nearby. No signage now but it used to say either coal or gas something or other years back.

I think that this bit out of that article is relevant to the time of which I wrote
>>A gas holder provided storage for purified, metered gas. It acted as a buffer, removing the need for continuous gas production. The weight of the gas holder lift (cap) controlled the pressure of the gas in the mains and provided back pressure for the gas-making plant.

They are the only storage method that keeps gas at district pressure (the pressure required in local gas mains).<<
To my mind - that's storage
Mike

Morning, away to the pool shortly then Tesco before I go home. I'm going to get my hair cut today, been 3 years since I last sat in a hairdressers.