Our skylines have changed. In the mid Victorian era most power was from steam engines which needed coal fires and chimneys to create sufficient draft.
Quickly demolished once gas engines became common as tall chimneys are expensive to maintain. Apart from the domestic ones on dwellings
Quickly demolished once gas engines became common as tall chimneys are expensive to maintain. Apart from the domestic ones on dwellings
Reposted from
Brian Groom
Chimney Forest, by Leeds-born Geoffrey W. Burks (1929-93).
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