1983: Howe Street Gasometers
April 25, 2019
By AHNZ
One more post to end the AHNZ Gasometer Trilogy. The discovery I made that kicked it off…
“Most of the quaint little colonial cottages and tiny dairies have disappeared, but the gasometers and their delicate strutting still make an arresting pattern against the sky.”
Ref. Keth S. Clark (1983) who also associates the Howe Street gasometers (plural..!?) with ‘nubile young women available in the district.’ (what? how?)
Of all the Auckland scenes in this Nobby Clark book this gasometer thing really threw me. What were they? When I was a little kid the last remains of these extinct hulks were still scattered around New Zealand like bones of some recently extinct species of brontosaur. Had I seen one I would have been desperately curious but nobody would have ever helped me find out what they were. I think that unmet need for information is why I keep trying to find things out even now and ended up writing 3 posts about gasometers.
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