No, as here's a shot showing the 'monstrous thing' taken back in '52 from here
From this picture, I'm beginning to wonder if it was perhaps the actual Coal Gas generation part of the gasworks although from memory, it looks nothing like the old Linacre Gasworks that I remember from back then which was all exposed pipes and strange retorts and belching chimneys and very strong sulpur smells. I suppose like that place, if this is the Garston works, it would have all been swept away in the early 70's once North Sea Gas came on stream leaving only the Gasometers remaining on the site.
Not really part of this thread, but here's an interesting use for an old Coalgas works in the US... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Works_Park.
Can't see anything like that ever happening here with our often overzealous concerns with H&S.
Got me really snookered now then Gulley!
Cracking picture that - just really weird that nobody I've spoken to from that area has any recollection of it. Mind you, as I'm beginning to realise myself all too often these days, age really does play tricks on the memory!
I'm with you about it not looking like a gasworks too, and there are pics of the old Garston gasworks on Google that still dont look like that picture to me [the Luftwaffe dropped a suspected delayed action incendiary mine on it during the war, and there's various stories online about those brave [mad??] bomb disposal lads, and how they dealt with it all.
Anyhow, as I said earlier, I'll keep researching - totally intrigued now!
