Great Yarmouth gasholder tank could be turned into artwork
The town’s Time and Tide Museum is looking for an artist to create a new artwork using metal and material salvaged from the decommissioned tank at the base of the gasholder on Admiralty Road.
The sculpture will be situated in the museum’s courtyard on Blackfriars Road.
National Grid is currently removing the tank from the bottom of the Victorian gasholder.
The work is part of a project restoring the frame of the vast, 14-column structure which has been part of the local skyline since 1884.
Time and Tide said they want the sculpture to be “bold and reflective of the town’s connections with the historic energy industry, as well as exploring the transition from fossil fuels to greener technologies”.
The gasholder is considered one of the finest in the country.
The Great Yarmouth Gasworks site was established on the corner of Southgates Road and Barrack Road and extended towards Admiralty Road in the mid-1880s.
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Initially the gasworks featured two large holders – also known as gasometers – in the eastern part of the wider site and two further gasholders on a piece of land on the opposite corner of Barrack Road and Southgates Road.
The Great Yarmouth Gas Light and Coke company was first established in 1824 to supply 150 new gas street lamps – the last of which was knocked down by a car and destroyed outside the Arc Cinema in 2005.
After 142 years the transition from coal gas to natural gas in the 1960s saw much of the plant demolished, the final two holders still operational into the early 1970s.
Contact yarmouth.museums@norfolk.gov.uk to be sent the full artist’s brief and commission tender.
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