At the other end of the layout, from where the recent photos have been taken, is where I've been able to shoehorn in my gas holder station scene that I'd made a while back. It's formerly a gas works, until the introduction of natural gas in the late 60s, and is based on the South Metropolitan Gas Company one that used to be in the Old Kent Road, although much of it is now razed to the ground and built upon.
The holder is an adapted American Cornerstone gas tank kit, heavily bashed to represent a more British style holder with below ground water tank and three storage ‘lifts’. The real site extended behind the side back-scene and included vehicle workshops, laboratories, test houses, an appliance warehouse, a training school, three other holders and where the retort houses used to be before being converted in to a staff car park. The buildings in the view - the security gate house, the pre-fabricated medical centre, appliance showroom, distribution control room, and district offices - are all scratch-built and based on those at the site in the late 1970s. It's another incomplete scene.
The holder is an adapted American Cornerstone gas tank kit, heavily bashed to represent a more British style holder with below ground water tank and three storage ‘lifts’. The real site extended behind the side back-scene and included vehicle workshops, laboratories, test houses, an appliance warehouse, a training school, three other holders and where the retort houses used to be before being converted in to a staff car park. The buildings in the view - the security gate house, the pre-fabricated medical centre, appliance showroom, distribution control room, and district offices - are all scratch-built and based on those at the site in the late 1970s. It's another incomplete scene.
