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Water Lane, junction with Chandlers Walk
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 18 May 2020
0.03 miles
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The end of Chandlers Walk, Exeter
Modern houses and flats in the former industrial area beside the Exeter Canal - hence the name. Road signs here do not have apostrophes.
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 9 Jan 2015
0.04 miles
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Willeys Avenue, Exeter - plenty of gas for Xmas dinner
No shortage of gas on Christmas Day 2011. The two large spiral-guided gas holders have now been demolished but back then they were still very much in use. I wasn't aware of this view until I realised I had taken it and had to try to work out where I had been standing.
One of my friends who spent his career in research for British Gas has added the following comments regarding the death of the UK gas holder fleet: -
"The UK's gasholders were 'well past their sell-by date' (youngest was 53 by 2011, fleet average age c. 90!) and it's amazing they lasted that long (last decommissioned 2013 just 2 years post-photo) - a tribute to solid Victorian 'fit-for-purpose', 'over-designed' engineering. The fleet of all that replacement 'hi-tech' replacement above-ground gas storage kit (est'd cost c. £850M!) that I organised all that R&D on 1996-2000 never materialised in the end - instead they (the Gas Distribution Co's -'GDNs') 'put extra transmission pipe volume in the ground' upstream at the 7-30 bar pressure level and 'work it hard' for pressure-swing linepack instead. Plus the new LNG tank storage at the Isle of Grain + 2 Milford Haven import terminals helped a bit. Cleverly 'saved a fortune' doing it those ways.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 25 Dec 2011
0.06 miles
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Chandlers Walk, Exeter
Part of a housing estate close to Exeter Canal Basin, with street names reflecting maritime links
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 18 May 2020
0.07 miles
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Mixed business and residential property, Water Lane, Exeter
On the right, the blank wall belongs to a workshop, while opposite is an apartment block
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 4 May 2020
0.07 miles
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Glass recycling, Haven Banks, Exeter
In a corner of a deserted car park during Covid-19 lockdown
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 4 May 2020
0.07 miles
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Isca Road, Exeter
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 8 Nov 2014
0.08 miles
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Isca Road, Exeter
"Exeter's first council housing, ultra-plain terraces of forty-two dwellings, completed in 1907".
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Jun 2014
0.08 miles
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Former electricity generating building, Haven Road, Exeter
Built 1903-5. It faces
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Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 3 Oct 2006
0.08 miles
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Detail of facade, electricity generating building
Classical detailing on
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Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 3 Oct 2006
0.08 miles