Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Contents: East Greenwich Gasworks, p. 2; Wheal Friendship, Mary Tavy, Dartmoor, p. 11; Building the Jarrow Tramway, p. 16; South Devon Railway Locomotives, p. 23; A Lancaster Clayworks - The Starring Stoneware Works, Littleborough, p. 27; Change on the Great Northern, p. 37; The Glamorganshire Canal at the turn of the century by Stephen Rowson, p. 45; and Coals to Portreath by Clive Carter, p. 55
Article Snippets
From 'East Greenwich Gas Works': Inside one of the retort houses with shafts of sunlight streaming through the rooflights showing that even in the design of these traditionally Dante-esque settings the South Metropolitan was trying to improve the lot of its workforce. Here an automatic hydraulically operated stoking machine is seen in use. These were efficient machines, cheap to use and doing what was probably the dirtiest and most arduous job in a gasworks. The horizontal retorts were oval fire-clay pipes twenty feet long which were charged every ten hours with a load of 11cwt., of coal and heated by furnaces maintained at a constant temperature ÃÃ