Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Local landmark disappearing...
Maybe just so much scrap metal to some...
Two out of three of these are for the chop...
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Thanks, EMC2, for the reminder of just what an eyesore these things were.
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Permalink Reply by andy h on
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I think it's a shame to lose all our industrial heritage. Know that it may have messed up the general area plan(and would certainly cost more to build) but I'm sure they could have used the outer structures with new build within.
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Come on! Where's your soul? Your sense of history. Juxtaposition and contrast within a landscape and all that. Remember the King's Cross gasholders and the wonderful silhouettes they created at sunset walking west down Wharf Road. Remember all the gritty, grimy, Lottery-funded Brit films they appeared in as latter day signifiers replacing hackneyed Big Ben and Tower Bridge. They were ruined by being used as flats and the Hornsey ones could quite possibly have earned their keep as film locations. I mourn their passing.
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Permalink Reply by Madeline on
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Landmark, not an eyesore.
I remember coming home to London on our 72ft narrowboat and as soon as we saw the Kings Cross gasometers we knew we were nearly home.
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This sounds appalling. Is that really the reason- to get a better view from the High Road? A better view of what? Perhaps the High Road could be demolished to give the residents of Mayes Road a better view.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Smith on
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Could do this: https://gasholderslondon.co.uk/
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Or you could just build a nice building without the ugly framework which brings nothing to the party except unnecessary expense
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Industrial heritage, innit.
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Repurposing Battersea Power Station into Tate Modern - that's industrial heritage...or converting old factories into flats or adapting them into modern usable spaces. These are just rusting inverted metal buckets that used to hold gas.... there are 1000s of them. They are neither unique or attractive and there's no need to preserve every single one like it was a palace. I'm very glad they're going.
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The one with the diagonal lattice structure was one of the earliest examples built, and one of the few of its kind left, so I would argue that it should have been preserved in one way or another, even if that meant moving it to another site rather than just scrapping it.
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