Conversion to North Sea Gas
Does anyone remember this happening? It was bewildering to me at the time and all I could think about was being gassed. To the day I left the estate I hated walking past the gas pumping station off Hazeldene Avenue - fearing it could blow up at any time……
Yes, it actually smelt of gas and hissed furiously.
ReplyDeleteI had moved to Leech at the time and remember they turned the gas on a week early- they then had to burn it off using olympic torch devices stuck in the manholes. I don't know if KB estate was affected as well.
Yes, I took remember the fell von of gas at this place, sniffed every time I passsed with mein sensitive morder...very horrible...Leeches Pond also had a horrible von of swamp stench in the summer, and when the wind blew south on occasion one could von either lovely chocolate from Rowntrees or horrible chemicals from the factory next to it...on bonfire night there were lovely vons of gunpowder...hmmm...one of the bungalows on Hartburn(the one directly on the corner leading to studdon walk bungalows/garages next to the sticking out flats where the cherry drinking dutchess Madge lived) had honeyysuckle growing and in the summer when I passed I used to stop to inhale the lovely von...
ReplyDeleteI remember the burning off of the gas although I did not see it myself directly. I saw it on Look North - or was that Mike Neville lighting a fart?
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