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Chimney on Kensington Gore
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:11:50 +0100, Keith J Chesworth
wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:08:13 +0100, Ian Jelf wrote: In message , Richard J. writes Chris Woodhead wrote: I appreciate I may not be in the right area of expertise to ask this question, but can anybody shed any light on the history / origins of the free-standing chimney on Kensington Gore. It's intrigued me for a while now. I've posed this question on several messageboards / newsgroups but have as yet failed to receive a response. I'd be grateful for any information. If you mean the chimney next to and south-east of the Royal Albert Hall, I think it's from the hall's boiler room. A Google search produced a reference to a chimney and a photo at http://www.unseenlondon.dns2go.com/r...rt/roofext.htm , but the site seems to be down at present. Now if that's the case I for one would be very interested as I've been trying [1] to find out about the Albert Hall's heating for years [2]. When I was at school, I was taught that the Hall was heated by the surplus heat from a nearby cold storage facility but I've never been able to confirm/disprove this. [1] Though not very hard! [2] On reflection, this is *very* sad, isn't it?! Four Balwin packaged steam boilers supply the heating. They were renewed, say 5years ago There was some thought to buying in the heating from the University a few years ago when the refurbishment was being planned but it did not come to anything Keith J Chesworth www.unseenlondon.co.uk www.blackpooltram.co.uk www.happysnapper.com www.boilerbill.com - main site www.amerseyferry.co.uk I believe it now has a preservation order on it. It no longer is in use. In much earlier times the Hall's organ was steam powered, to pump the bellows and the waste was vented through this chimney. Reg |
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