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Crossgates gasholder number 1

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The Crossgates gasometer is the most historically important in the City, I was surprised to find out it dates back to the Victorian era. This gasometer is also unique to the others. This one is a column guided type, the telescopic lifts were guided by the external frame. All the other Leeds gas holders are the frameless spiral guided type.
I guess we had been lucky to catch all the other gasometers fully extended during the day. I wasn't feeling too fussed when i saw this one was down. I want a picture of it in both positions for comparison anyway. The is the deflated view of the demand for gas around Crossgates at 7p.m on a Saturday evening.

There were two of these holders on the site of the Crossgates, Halton & Seacroft Gas Company. I'm not sure when the other was demolished. It was still standing in the 1965 picture seen below. Railway sidings once ran into these gasworks, and a nearby goods yard where the Arndale centre car park now stands. This gas holder is quoted to have been built around 1900, although two circular structures are shown here on both the 1894, and 1921 maps. It is possible it could even pre-date 1900. I'm not sure if it's a listed structure. If it isn't, then I personally think it should be. It's been a prominent landmark around Crossgates for years. I think it would be a shame to loose it.

Catch them while you can!
I recently read the last 550 gasometers across the U.K had slowly started to be decommissioned from 1999, soon these great rusting hulks will be a thing of the past.
Only a handful will remain, and then only because they are listed buildings.
Essentially a Victorian creation, Gas holders were first used in London in the early 19th century. Leeds is apparently noted for having many gasometers, I thought it was about time to photograph the remaining five we have across the City.

Sometimes there up-sometimes there down!
Gas is stored in these throughout the day when little gas is being used. At about 5pm there is a great demand for gas and the holder will come down. I guess to some people they might seem like a blot on the landscape, some gasometers were even covered in tar to preserve there iron work. But I quite like there towering, brutal, and weathered look myself.

*Part of the: Rise and fall of the The great Gasometer in the sky set*