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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EPW019846 / 809065)

' Gas works, as I was growing up North Shields I remember the gas works not because of the odour but the size of the walls that surounded it. I was just a small boy but those walls looked huge to me. I recall it's demolition back in the 70's the land was rebuilt as a school a replacement for the 'Western Board school that had been nearbye. The school was only in use a short while when it was discovered there was minerals in the ground that could have been harfull to the children so the school closed and the building demolished and the harmfull soil removed prior to the school being rebuilt. '