Comments on: ‘An industrial landscape of some grandeur': gasworks

By: DAVID KNAPTON

DAVID KNAPTON — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:04:06 +0000

Just found this page and your comment from 2015 so I doubt you’ll get this note. But, just in case….. Your name is very familiar and I think I know who you are. Did you live opposite the corner shop next to Groves Lane? I also went to Park Grove Infant, Junior and Senior School and I think we were in the same class. I lived in Waverley Street just down the lane. Let me know if you receive this as i’d like to hear from you. All the best, David.

By: Garry Hall

Garry Hall — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:36:54 +0000

This is a very interesting little bit of information for me having lived in the Groves (Penley’s Grove Street which goes off to the top centre of photo 1) since the mid 50’s until the mid 70’s, and going to Park Grove school in all Infants, Juniours and in those days seniors too. I remember my father taking me to the railway bridge here to see the trains going over it to what I assumed was the hospital but could have been other parts of the Gasworks. I do not remember any gas holders on the hospital side (far side of the river) only two on the lower side. However I do not know if these two were rebuilt as one especially looked a bit different and in a different place. In my days there was a footpath from Heworth to Layerthorpe that passed these towers with a constant smell of gas etc and crossed the railway just before Layerthorpe. I can remember the little factory in the junction of Foss Islands (2 way road traffic until the 70’s and Heworth with the river behind.

By: Mrs Avril Webster-Appleton

Mrs Avril Webster-Appleton — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:35:16 +0000

Yes I can help My first husband was Ronald Webster-son
of Ernest Webster.His uncles were Frank, Sydney,and freddy.I am cetain that Frank and Sydney worked at the Gas Works. I have just returned home from hospital and missed the photos but I know they all lived in
Layerthorpe. I am now in my eighties so need more time to recover. Will help if I can.

By: Mick Phythian

Mick Phythian — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:05:44 +0000

I wonder if Avril Webster- Appleton can shed any further light? She did the history of Layerthorpe, where some of my wife’s ancestors lived, and my wife’s aunt actually went to school with her in the area. I’ve dropped her a mail with the link! The aunt is due for a visit later today, I’ll ask her too!