http://www.hoylakejunction.com/mjm-light-commercials Hoylake News, Views and much more! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.hoylakejunction.com/mjm-light-commercials#comment-17268 Graham Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:00:53 +0000 http://www.hoylakejunction.com/mjm-light-commercials#comment-17268 The Carr Lane site brings back memories of the local gasworks. The grinding, squealing sound of the bucket conveyor loading coal into the retort was a familiar sound to me when I lived at Links View by the golf course. As kids, we used to peer in through the chainlink fence at the strange, naptha or tar soaked earth around the retort with leakage running in channels to who knows where. (They wouldn't get away with it now). Shortly after the war, people used to collect coke, a by-product from the distillation of coal, in old prams and trollys. It took some lighting but then burned hot as h*** and was much cheaper than coal. The two gas holders tended to fill up during the night, getting to full height by morning. Sunday lunchtime, when every ones Mum was cooking the joint, they dropped right down. The Carr Lane site brings back memories of the local gasworks. The grinding, squealing sound of the bucket conveyor loading coal into the retort was a familiar sound to me when I lived at Links View by the golf course. As kids, we used to peer in through the chainlink fence at the strange, naptha or tar soaked earth around the retort with leakage running in channels to who knows where. (They wouldn’t get away with it now).
Shortly after the war, people used to collect coke, a by-product from the distillation of coal, in old prams and trollys. It took some lighting but then burned hot as h*** and was much cheaper than coal.
The two gas holders tended to fill up during the night, getting to full height by morning. Sunday lunchtime, when every ones Mum was cooking the joint, they dropped right down.

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