IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Westercrofts Gardens, BIGGAR, ML12 6EA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Westercrofts Gardens, ML12 6EA by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (226 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Details
Distance
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Croftfoot Terrace Biggar
Overlooking the back of the houses on Burnside Terrace
Image: © Jim Smillie
Taken: 18 May 2009
0.04 miles
3
Preserved gasholder, Biggar Gasworks Museum
The larger of the two gasholders at this preserved coal gas gasworks. Pity the foreground is so scruffy.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 16 Oct 2010
0.06 miles
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Gasholder at Biggar Gasworks Museum
This single lift externally guided holder with a triangular guide frame is obviously being held in the raised position as it will no longer be holding gas. The one at the Fakenham Gasworks Museum is actually normally in the down position and is 'blown up' by the exhauster on open days. This is seen through the gates of the closed museum (I was out of season).
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 16 Oct 2010
0.06 miles
5
Biggar Gasworks Museum - condenser
On the back of the retort house - a very simple air cooled condenser to condense out the tar.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1994
0.07 miles
6
Biggar Gasworks Museum, Biggar - purifiers
These cast iron box purifiers were made by The Barrowfield ironworks Ltd, Glasgow and contain iron oxide powder. The gas passes through them to remove hydrogen sulphide.
Biggar Gasworks is one of three small towns gasworks that are preserved in the United Kingdom and is one of the few reminders of what was once a major industry. All the larger and more modern plants are just history and now even the gas holders are very largely being swept away.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1994
0.07 miles
7
Biggar Gasworks Museum, Biggar - exhausters
This shows two sliding vane type exhausters flanking a gas governor. The exhausters are belt driven. In the centre top background is a washer. The exhausters pull the gas from the retorts and push it through the cleaning processes and into the gas holders.
Biggar is one of the preserved small towns gasworks in the United Kingdom and one of the few reminders of what was once a massive industry in manufactured gas.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Jul 1994
0.07 miles
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Biggar Gasworks Museum, Biggar
This shows the preserved works for producing coal gas. On the left is the larger of the two single lift, externally guided gasholders. This is obviously being held in the up position as it is no longer holding gas. This is one of the three preserved coal gas gasworks in the UK.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 16 Oct 2010
0.07 miles
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Steam's up, Biggar Gasworks
Occasionally the Biggar Gasworks museum has a 'steam day' on which the boiler is fired up to run some of the steam engines for powering ancillary equipment. The white building houses the main gas meter - for a closeup see Image
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 1 Aug 2011
0.07 miles