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• Guided tours of the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks

  22-05-2022 16:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, there’s a very rare chance to go on a tour of the decommissioned gasholders that dominate the view from the trains passing through West Ham station.
  Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks (c) Newham Heritage Month
  The gasworks was established here by the Imperial Gas Imperial Gas Light & Coke Company in 1870. However, changes to the way gas is supplied to homes and businesses led to most of the original site being redeveloped, and the gasholders being decommissioned later in 2010.
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• Today’s the 125th anniversary of opening the Blackwall Tunnel

  22-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  On this day in 1897, London’s first-ever road tunnel opened under the Thames, offering a connection across the river that East London had long been missing.Although central London had plenty of bridges across the Thames, East London was poorly served and this was increasingly a problem with the growth of London’s docks and a population seemingly never stopping. There was a railway line running through Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, but apart from the slow Woolwich Ferry, there really
  
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