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Old Cheltenham Gas Works Offices and Clock Tower

Castle, fort or tower
Old Cheltenham Gas Works Offices and Clock Tower
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Old Cheltenham Gas Works Offices and Clock Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Cheltenham, England. Perhaps the clock tower marked time for gas workers rather than kings, its bronze hand sweeping above soot-blackened offices. Maybe the building wore a practical coat instead of a military one, its strength measured in pressure pipelines rather than city walls. Imagine men and women pacing past ledgers where flame was counted like coin, the tower standing as a quiet beacon above the working street.
A named place photographed at this map point in Cheltenham.

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Photo: Terry Jacombs · CC BY-SA 2.0