Folkestone?s former gasworks, Ship Street
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The photograph on this page of Folkestone?s former gasworks, Ship Street by John Baker as part of the Geograph project.
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Folkestone?s former gasworks, Ship Street
Image: © John Baker Taken: 22 Aug 2021
Home to Folkestone Triennial 2021 to display a sculptural installation by the artist Jacqueline Donachie entitled Beautiful Sunday. The notice affixed to the fence, is identified as The Plot C7 and bears the following information, “The production of gas at the Ship Street Gasworks ceased in 1959 but the social club for workers and local residents remained active on the derelict site for many years after. This story inspired the artist to make a sculpture to ‘celebrate all the dance floors in Folkestone’ past and present, which you will find marked out in the surface of the stage. The accompanying film documents line dance indigenous to Glasgow, the artist’s home town, called the Slosh. Beautiful Sunday is the title of the 1972 hit single by Daniel Boone”.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.084279
Longitude
1.175804