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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
The 1850s iron frame of Gasholder No. 8, taken down, restored in Yorkshire and put back up as a circular park on the canal at King's Cross.
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The Pancras gasworks lit half of Victorian London, and its telescopic gasholders - iron guide-frames within which the great tanks rose and fell with the gas - stood behind King's Cross until 2001; No. 8, the largest, was dismantled, every casting repaired in a Yorkshire foundry, and re-erected on the far side of the Regent's Canal in 2015 around a lawn and a mirrored canopy. Its three siblings next door have flats built inside them. The best surviving piece of the city's gas engineering, and free to sit in.
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