| 21. | By the end of the century, most towns in Britain had their own gas works and gas holders.
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| 22. | The works closed in 1850, retaining the four 52 foot gas holders, which were fed by other factories.
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| 23. | Some of the water was pumped out and an access hole was cut into the side of the gas holder.
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| 24. | Commonly, waste tars were disposed of in old gas holders, adits or even mine shafts ( if present ).
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| 25. | Its skyline was dominated by the gas holder and three cooling towers of the Ravenscraig steel plant which closed in 1992.
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| 26. | The term " gasometer " is discouraged for use in technical circles, where the term " gas holder " is preferred.
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| 27. | One of these gangs, the Ribbon Men, were reported to have blown up a gas holder in Tradeston in 1883.
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| 28. | The " luftmine " had fallen through a large gas holder and its parachute had become entangled in the hole in the roof.
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| 29. | In 2008 Surrey County Cricket Club, tenants of The Oval, announced plans to redevelop it along the side nearest the gas holders.
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| 30. | Municipal gas works became superfluous in the latter 20th century-but gas holders and production plant was still in use in steel works in 2016.
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