Gas works

In this photograph you can the Metropolitan Gas Company Works, just behind the old Graham Street Bridge. William Westgarth writing in 1888 recalled: "The only other indigenous feature of this somewhat featureless beach which I recall was a little virulently salt lagoon, situated in complete isolation near the bay, and only a hundred yards on the right hand side of the track to Melbourne…without outlet for its briny waters, and in its desolate solitude, it might have aspired to be a sort of tiny dead sea.” - The Borough and its People, Margaret and Graham Bride, 2013.

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