Gasholders or gasometers were once part of the everyday landscape throughout urban Britain – a great way to store reserves of gas for the booming towns and cities. But in the last 20 years they’ve more or less become redundant and now these behemoths of the background are facing their last days. In Miles Platting, they’ve made the decision to tear them down – which is the closing of a chapter in the history of this part of the city.

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