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Post by Chris M on Nov 30, 2019 11:46:32 GMT
Assuming I'm looking at the correct building, it would appear from Google Street View to be an office building for Monster Energy |
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Post by John Tuthill on Nov 30, 2019 11:53:17 GMT
Assuming I'm looking at the correct building, it would appear from Google Street View to be an office building for Monster Energy Having looked myself, yes you are correct. |
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Post by stapler on Nov 30, 2019 16:01:53 GMT
If I remember correctly, the Alladin place was on the A40 Western Avenue between Greenford and Northolt Target roundabouts, were it crosses the Grand Union Canal. The building is still there, its listed, you can't miss it. Was used by B&Q for a while. Haven't been that way for years,don't know who has it now. Any hydrocarbon burnt gives off water vapour, doesn't it? A cold start today, and virtually every chimney/flue in the Loughton roofscape was giving off plumes of steam that would befit an N7. Was any more or less steam emitted after the change to North Sea gas from town gas in the late 60s? |
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Post by John Tuthill on Nov 30, 2019 17:40:14 GMT
The building is still there, its listed, you can't miss it. Was used by B&Q for a while. Haven't been that way for years,don't know who has it now. Any hydrocarbon burnt gives off water vapour, doesn't it? A cold start today, and virtually every chimney/flue in the Loughton roofscape was giving off plumes of steam that would befit an N7. Was any more or less steam emitted after the change to North Sea gas from town gas in the late 60s? I do remember reading at the time NSG was first used, the gas jets on cookers had to be changed and a "smell" added as the gas was odourless, a couple of explosions reported where people had left the gas on! |
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Post by stapler on Nov 30, 2019 22:02:11 GMT
The smell was (is) ethyl mercaptan, I think.
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Post by stapler on Dec 12, 2019 18:09:17 GMT
Happened to see a hopper wagon on the Great Central labelled "House Coal Concentration"
I think this must be part of the attempt to create bigger depots with some mechanisation for domestic fuel trade, mentioned above in this thread.Woodford in the clip seems to have only wooden and steel sided mineral wagons,without any mechanisation, which was doubtless provided at Angel Rd
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slugabed
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Post by slugabed on Dec 12, 2019 22:37:07 GMT
Yes...I remember being on a 1978 railtour on the Staines West branch,and as the line looped round under the GWR main line we passed a sign saying "Coal Concentration Depot" which was presumably the mechanised central depot for the area.
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castlebar
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Post by castlebar on Dec 13, 2019 14:24:25 GMT
For what it's worth, my ageing brain's understanding is/was that Coal Concentration Depots (CCDs) were a 60's/70s idea that came into being after it's time had already gone, almost like designing an improved typewriter ribbon, or fax machine in the internet age. They were to enable train loads, as opposed to wagon loads of coal to be delivered to one central point by rail, for retail dispersal by merchants, really to enable the closure of many coal yards in wayside rural stations around the country. But, by the time it was put into practice, the market for domestic house coal had withered down to almost zero. So many of them became redundant almost immediately on opening. Corrupt local planning planning officers, especially those with estate agent 'connections', loved them.
For example, the big CCD for the Brighton area was at Hove. The site became a wet dream for property developer/speculators. Haven't seen it (Hove) for several years now, and l wonder what happened to it.
EDIT @ 8p.m.
A friend of mine from Yorkshire tells me they opened one near his house in 1963, Six and a half years later it closed in 1969. It's now a supermarket/car park site.
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Post by peterc on Dec 13, 2019 17:07:13 GMT
Battersea in the late 60s,a tanker lorry used to come around once a week and dispense gallons of Paraffin from a tap at the back. You could also go and fetch it from a hardware type shop...these were going quite a while,I was buying Paraffin by the gallon for use as a degreaser for working on motorbikes well into the nineties. The smell of Paraffin was very pervasive,and it was said that for every gallon of Paraffin burnt,a gallon of water-vapour was given off,leading to immense condensation problems in those pre-double-glazing days. I have a parafin greenhouse heater and I am surprised that it doesn't rain in there given how much water is given off. The soot is just as bad. |
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Post by stapler on Dec 13, 2019 21:23:35 GMT
Battersea in the late 60s,a tanker lorry used to come around once a week and dispense gallons of Paraffin from a tap at the back. You could also go and fetch it from a hardware type shop...these were going quite a while,I was buying Paraffin by the gallon for use as a degreaser for working on motorbikes well into the nineties. The smell of Paraffin was very pervasive,and it was said that for every gallon of Paraffin burnt,a gallon of water-vapour was given off,leading to immense condensation problems in those pre-double-glazing days. I have a parafin greenhouse heater and I am surprised that it doesn't rain in there given how much water is given off. The soot is just as bad. Peter - you need to trim the wick. If it's an Aladdin (the one with a brass tray of water on the top) you should have a brass rotary cutter supplied by the makers to do so |
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