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Carrickfergus gasworks has been preserved as a museum by a local Trust and comprises the largest surviving gasworks in Britain and Ireland. I was privileged to be given a personal tour of the premises when I visited. This is one of the three retort benches on the site. Sadly the Trust has found itself unable to meet the cost of running the museum and it is now closed and handed back to the landowners Historic Environment Division. Hopefully it will reopen in 2023.

The surviving gasholder at Carrickfergus gasworks was erected in 1949 and is the sole survivor of the three that were once on the site. In front is the base of one of the two earlier gasholders at 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". All is now preserved as part of the gasworks museum.

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.

Valves on the top of the gasholder at Carrickfergus.

This gasholder was erected at Carrickfergus gasworks in 1949 and is the sole survivor of the three that were once on the site. It is now preserved as part of the gasworks museum.

I don't often do selfies but this can be an exception. That's my shadow from the top of the surviving gasholder at Carrickfergus gasworks. Below you can see the remains of the two earlier holders that this replaced in 1949. The brick lined tank of one is on the left whilst only the circular outine of the base is visible for the other.

Carrickfergus gasworks has been preserved as a museum by a local Trust and comprises the largest surviving gasworks in Britain and Ireland. I was privileged to be given a personal tour of the premises when I visited. This is one of the three retort benches on the site.

The Kilroot power station on the north shore of Belfast Lough has a capacity of 660 MW and produces one third of Northern Ireland's electricity. It is the country's only coal fired power plant although the plant was initially oil fired. Today there is 520 MW of coal/biomass generation and 140 MW from gas turbines. The plant is owned by the AES Corporation, a United States based energy company.

The Kilroot power station on the north shore of Belfast Lough has a capacity of 660 MW and produces one third of Northern Ireland's electricity. It is the country's only coal fired power plant although the plant was initially oil fired. Today there is 520 MW of coal/biomass generation and 140 MW from gas turbines. The plant is owned by the AES Corporation, a United States based energy company.

Lough Neagh sand suction dredger barges Ballyronan and Toomebridge at Northstone's Sandy Bay wharf. These are two of eight identical vessels built by James W Cook Ltd of Wivenhoe, Essex, between 1968 and 1974 for Scotts of Toomebridge. They are 120’ 6" long by 19’ 3" beam and all loaded and discharged by pump. They were built at the largest size for the locks on the Lower Bann which gives access to the lake from the sea. The sand trade on Lough Neagh continues to occupy several companies and a large number of barges in dredging around 1 million tonnes of sand annually.