Old Building at Kirkhouse Gasworks

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Old Building at Kirkhouse Gasworks

Image: © Matthew Hatton Taken: 7 Oct 2016

Originally marked as engine shed, it is later shown as ore hopper. The large metal door seems to be located where a rail line may have entered, and then presumably coal or coke was loaded into waiting waggons. It is of sandstone and brick construction, and clearly of two different building periods.

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