Leeds-The great Gasometer in the sky!

[LS1]

Thought you'd like them! Think they were taken about 18 months ago maybe. All legit too!

[Si]

Is this birthplace of the gasholders? I presume this is where gasholders were manufactured. Even the surrounding streets are called Gasholder Terrace, etc, and the narrow-gauge line is gasholder size and shape!1905 OS map of Hunslet.

[Si]

From Leodis, here's Gasholder Street, with the gasholder factory behind.It's a kind of comedy street name, like Oil Drum Lane!    

[jim]

Correct Si. That is one of the sites of Clayton, Son, and Co, whose main product was indeed gasholders. There was another Claytons, probably connected, at the top of Pepper Road ( in the triangle formed between the Midland Railway main line and the Great Northern Railway Hunslet East Branch on the same map.Not shown on the map, so commenced operations later, was a subsidiary of the firm you noted next to Garnett Road, part of the field identified as 35 5.487. This was Clayton's steel stockyard and metal grit-blasting and treatment plant.See you later.

[Si]

Cheers, Jim. According to Leodis, gasholders were built here "from at least the 1890s." Croydon Works later became Clayton's. There are quite a lot of pics on Leodis of this area, some featuring signs for Clayton's.