Significant to the current theme was the way the city acquired the land for the gasworks, and what it decided to build there.
The corporation duly granted itself permission to build its gasworks on someone else's territory, and broke its habit of opposing incorporation.
The growth of the gasworks is a useful example of how this process might take place.
Schools, gasworks, old people's homes, housing estates, tram depots and welfare offices do not allude to the key features of governmental modernity or urban administration; they are those features.
Figures for the number of derelict sites that were previously used as gasworks are not available.
Take the case of gasworks or any trade of a noxious character.
If one voluntarily goes to live next door to a gasworks, one can only blame oneself if one suffers from the smell.
A large area of the old gasworks might be used as an industrial estate, for example.
