The gasworks are gone
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The gasworks are gone
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 29 Aug 2018
This unremarkable scene in Lawrence Street shows little of the past. Indeed, this was previously the site of Wrington's Gasometer, now a small business place and housing. The gas works would have kept the village in power and light in the nineteenth century, but it had been replaced by other forms of supply by the early 1900s. The works then were used as a smithy initially before more development.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.36125
Longitude
-2.76146