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    Beckton Gasworks was a major London gasworks built to manufacture coal gas and other products including coke from coal. It has been variously described...
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    constructed. Beckton is named after Simon Adams Beck, the governor of the Gas Light and Coke Company when work building Beckton Gas Works began in November...
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  • found an area owned by British Gas that closely resembled it and was scheduled to be demolished. The disused Beckton Gas Works, a few miles from central London...
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    him in Kensal Green Cemetery. Winsor Terrace in Beckton, the former approach road to Beckton Gas Works, is named in his honour. Trevor I. Williams, ‘Winsor...
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    GLCC was dissolved in 1949. Beckton Gas Works were built in 1868 on East Ham Levels east of London. The site was named "Beckton" after the GLCC chairman...
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  • particular note is the filming location of the video: the disused Beckton Gas Works outside of London was selected and the entire video was shot there...
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    report such complaints. Beckton Gas Works East Greenwich Gas Works Imperial Gas Works, Fulham Nine Elms Gas Works "Southall Gas Works at Doctor Who Locations"...
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  • Wandsworth served as the façade for the Victory Mansions, and the Beckton Gas Works in the Docklands of Newham was used as the setting for the proletarian...
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  • footballer Beckton (microprocessor), a microprocessor Beckton Gas Works, in Beckton, London, formerly with spoil heaps known as "Beckton Alps" This disambiguation...
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    Gallions Reach DLR station (category Beckton)
    the station opened with the Beckton extension in 1994, it was surrounded by brownfield land such as the old Beckton Gas Works, which closed in 1970. Given...
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  • regular 7", both of which "Sleepwalk" lacked. The video was shot in Beckton Gas Works, London. The single contains two live b-sides; "Face To Face", an...
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  • entering the Thames each year is consumed in nine gas works and 17 generating stations. Beckton Gas Works carbonises an average of 4,500 tons of coal every...
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    Gas Company. Windsor Royal Gaslight Company. These organisations operated 26 gas-making stations ranging in capacity from the large Beckton Gas Works...
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  • Bedfordshire. The 1917 weapon testing ground scene was shot at the Beckton Gas Works, which, a year later, was used for scenes in Full Metal Jacket and...
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    Your Eyes Only (1981) Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire  United Kingdom Beckton Gas Works and MI6 headquarters in London KGB headquarters in Moscow  Soviet...
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  • For Your Eyes Only (film) (category Films based on multiple works of a series)
    while the helicopter scenes were filmed at the abandoned Beckton Gas Works in London. The gas works were also the location for some of Stanley Kubrick's film...
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  • The video story's setting is unclear. It was filmed on location at Beckton Gas Works in London, which has also been used as a filming location by The Smiths...
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    Greenwich Gas Works gasholder. From February 2020 until present,[when?] the deconstruction of the outer framework is taking place. Beckton Gas Works Southall...
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    was built on part of the site of the former Beckton Gas Works, and was opened with the extension to Beckton in March 1994 with capacity for 45 single car...
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  • while scenes involving a helicopter were filmed at the abandoned Beckton Gas Works in London. The score of For Your Eyes Only was written by Bill Conti...
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    House became a GER station in 1862. On 14 October 1872 a branch to Beckton Gas Works opened to freight, the line diverging just to the east of the station...
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    (formerly Cory & Son) New Beckton Wharf (formerly BP) site of Beckton Gas Works and coaling piers Beckton Reach Sewerage Works Pier The following wharves...
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    sickening. The water was also polluted by the untreated output from Beckton Gas Works, and several local chemical factories. Adding to the foulness of the...
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    Beckton Gas Works. The line was opened for freight in 1872 and to passengers in 1874. It was leased to the Great Eastern Railway from 1874. Beckton was...
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    Rangers recruited two companies from employees of the Gas Light and Coke Company's Beckton Gas Works, and a signal section was established in 1886. Between...
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    Museum Beckton Gas Works 0-4-0WT No. 1 (works number 4444) of 1892, awaiting sale at Preston Services, Kent Beckton Gas Works 0-4-0ST No. 25 (works number...
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  • children were born. For Your Eyes Only (1982), opening sequence at Beckton Gas Works on 3 November 1980 Biggles (1986) Black Hawk Down (2001) Skyfall (2012)...
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    October 1972 there was a route 100 operating between Barking and Beckton Gas Works. The current route 100 commenced operating on 10 June 1989 from Liverpool...
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    at Beckton Gas Works before 1926; it was moved to its present location in a garden at Twelvetrees Crescent, Bromley by Bow, near Bromley Gas Works, north...
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  • the audio version, it doesn't fade-out. The scense were filmed at Beckton Gas Works. Meat Loaf has performed "Modern Girl" many times during the '80s...
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