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Posted: 07 Nov 2017

Taken: 20 Mar 2015

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Dumpling

Dumpling
This is the base of one of the two early gasholders at Carrickfergus gasworks. The brick lined tank only needs water around the sides of the metal holder and therefore some of the space inside is filled with a brick cone often referred to as a dumpling.

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 GrahamH
GrahamH club
All that complicated brickwork just to save a third of the volume of water?
7 years ago.
tarboat club has replied to GrahamH club
Yes!
7 years ago.

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