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Great to see herritage tram 🚃 up talbot road

What splendid vehicles these 1930s trams are! They don't really look all that dated even 90 years on...

Hey, Steve , cool video! What kind of sounds did the gasometer make? Was it loud? Do you have any audio of the thing itself?

I remember walking up one f two near me and seeing water all round the joints and told the water was used as a seal

if you still have the original jpgs you will be able to make a much better video now days as opposed to 15 years ago, send them to me and i will do it for you and send it back.

COOL VIDEO

I toured that sub in 1962, less than 20 years after it's last mission, it was outside the museum then.

Did some gasometers have red lights on the sides at night?

Tom scott brought me here

I have a question…just before the 6:00 mark,the tour guide mentions that the U-boat crew had American jazz records within their music collection. I was under the impression that American jazz records were illegal to own in Germany during the years of the Third Reich. Was I incorrect in my understanding (or misunderstanding)?

In the early 1970's I had the privilege of touring that boat. I'm not sure but I believe the boat was in water when I toured it. From what I understand, it has been moved since then.

So hard to understand how the Germans could not grasp that their Enigma Cyphering was not secure. Assumptions are deadly. Thanks for the guided tour.

Excellent commentary by the tour guide .

I remember the argument I had with a work colleague who wouldn’t believe the Gasometer opposite our office would change in height depending on the gas levels. He was dumbfounded when he realised I was right.

Been to Chicago and walked through U-505. good video.

There are steel works nearby and they have two gasometers, one per blast furnace. But these gasometers never move. They have an internal diaphragm that does the job, but you never see any movement.

This brings back some memories, thanks for the upload (I think!). This type of gas holder, without a surrounding frame, is like the dark and brown, forbidding behemoths towering over the towns I've lived in. I guess they were cheaper to construct than the ones surronded by girders but I always thought couldn't they have painted the outside or even rented it out as advertising space to brighten it up?

That is me and my mate working on that gasholder. They were a fantastic piece of engineering. It looks as if we were checking all alarms and making sure that it was safe to put to work. The cycle of a gasholder is that at night it fills when demand is low and will start to empty around five thirty in the morning to assist with demand. There were many safety devices that would be monitored by grid control and were a source of many callouts to high alarms low alarms and many others. This holder was relatively small only being two lifts, the larger ones were between three and four lifts. This holder was an above ground holder spiral guided. Some are column guided. The lifts as they rise pick up water from the tank to provide a seal the seal of water being above the pressure that the holder throws at it high point. Weight of each lift produces the pressure. Each lift had heaters to prevent ice forming in the seals in extreme cold weather. Conversely in warmer weather with no demand Sun gas was a problem as the heat would cause the holder to rise sometimes to it's high alarm setting. There was much more to them than just an old sometimes rusty hulk but it was a great job looking after them. Sadly they are now virtually all gone.

Good old Tom Scott did a little video on these too. czcams.com/video/SopJr0yHt-w/video.html

You always tell when you were in for a cold spell because the containers would be filled up (up high ) to cope with predicted demand.

Your holiday office?

You’re really good at writing, and your voice is pleasant, surprised it doesn’t have more views

Have not been through the sub since my family left the suburbs of Chicago back in '66 I still have a souvenir magazine brochure that they were selling that they had back then It is a treasure to me and something I don't think my kids would keep around very long once I'm gone cuz they do not understand.

I used to be a torpedo on this boat during the war. I was a dud when fired so eventually i just drifted and ended up starting a new life in the Canada.

So much of the Sub seems to be off-limits. Seen from a distance. Now I won’t bother to go. I was on Pampanito opening day, BEFORE the conning tower and aft torpedo rooms were covered with plex.

Superb video, looks just like the one outside the window of an office I worked at, never could actually perceive it moving, just noticed that at some points of the day a lot of the buildings behind were suddenly visible. This was in 2010 so they can't have all been defunct that long.

My wifes Grampa was a cook on a Uboot that was captured. He was put in a camp in Arkansas and was let out on weekends to work in a bakery in Poplar Bluff Mo.. After the war he stayed in the states and bought the bakery he had worked in. Fritz Otto. I wish i knew more about him.

Interestingly they have the correct fabric on the bunks, blue and white check. They must have made miles of it as they used it in hospitals as well.

Years ago I was reading a book about u 505 at my desk when an x seaman on the boat that captured it walked in and wanted to know what I was reading asked me what I was reading was about He was 19 at the time it was captured Henry worked with me for about 25 years

I remember a movie with Ralph Fiennes about lonely man with mental illness where home that person localized just near that awful gas holder making awful sound.

Why does it spin?

Fantastic. What year was this? I'm the Fireman, btw ;D

I could spend a summer's day with a flask and sandwich watching one of these

10 people: i hate this

U boat is awesome .

for a while I thought it showed the construction of one. I was wondering why they build it so oddly from the bottom up lifting the entire thing. then it started sinking down. what the heck man. they just move like that

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Back when it was outside!

Thank you. I've al;ways wondered exactly how these worked. Just never could visualize it.

Never knew they rotated.

We haven't had these since the 1960s but you still see the frames around.

i never knew they moved up and down like this! damn she thicc!

Sehr interessant

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Is great, you don't notice this at their normal movement rates. Fascinating and a little scary lol

This was way more fun than it should've been, Pemberton. Also, legs broken, belly full of lead and tutu? Overkill but I like it lol

Nice camera and editing work of an amazing layout!

shit music

Love the CTA!