Coleraine gasworks
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Coleraine gasworks
Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 1 Mar 1980
Coleraine gasworks, at Hanover Place, opened in 1845 producing town gas from coal. In 1967 it converted to gas production from naphtha imported, by ship, through a jetty Image further downstream on the Bann. In common with all town gasworks in Northern Ireland it closed. After a long gap natural gas is now available through pipelines from Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. The area was subsequently redeveloped Image but in the days before riverside apartments became the norm.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.129504
Longitude
-6.672293