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pagepage66Historic Gas Times%u2022 Issue 112 %u2022 September 2022 %u2022Samuel Glover had developed with James Young of oil-shale fame. Thomas also added a larger Carburetted Water Gas Plant to boost the gas making capacity of the works. As for an unusual legacy, Glover cared dearly about his staff and was responsible for the construction of St. Martin%u2019s and St. Leonards Terraces, above the Bishops Bridge gasworks, which housed his workers. These houses are unique. If you look closely at the construction, you can see the walls are built from fragments of spent retorts and firebricks. I%u2019m not aware of any other such structure built of old retort bricks in Britain or perhaps the world, he was obviously an advocate of recycling. Glover also built a laundry nearby the terrace, so workers were able to do their washing with relative ease. Glover lived nearby at Cliff House on St. Leonards Road, which still survives today. Thomas Glover was also responsible for the construction of Kett%u2019s Heights Park, which was built on gasworks land which was unsuitable for construction as it was too steep. This area of hillside which overlooks the former Bishop Bridge Gasworks, again Glover%u2019s influence can still be seen with many of the terraced walls constructed from firebricks and fragments of spent curved retort bricks. One firebrick is clearly stamped with the name COWEN %u2013 a famous manufacturer of firebrick and fireclay retorts based at Blaydon Burn, near Newcastle. The same retort fragments and firebricks can be seen in the surviving old gasworks walls on Gas Hill.Thomas Glover was elected president of the Institution of Gas Engineers in 1909 and was a very active member. He also later served as a member of the University of Leeds Coal Gas and Fuel Industries Committee, otherwise known as the Livesey Professorship, which was sponsored by the Institution.A member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a City and Guilds examiner, and technical adviser to the Controller of Coal Mines. Like many gas managers, Glover played a prominent role in local society. He was a founding member of the Rotary Club in Norwich and its first president when it formed in 1922. In his inaugural address he stated that %u201cJust as the soil needed to be agitated and cultivated, so did the brains of business and professional people.%u201d Thomas Glover was also a founding member of the Engineering Society for Norwich formed in 1923. Glover%u2019s son, Samuel Lawrence Glover, helped establish one of the first Scout Patrol at his home Cliff House in 1908, which went on to become the one of the oldest groups of its kind anywhere in the world - The 1st Norwich Sea Scouts. Glover%u2019s appetite for civic duties seemed to know no bounds: in 1925, he was made Lord Mayor of Norwich and in the following year, Glover, a lifelong gas man was given the honour of opening the Electric Power Station in 1926, which had just cost the civic authorities %u00a3300,000 to build. He was also a councillor in 1929, and magistrate. His tenure at Norwich covered the period of the First World War, a time of great sadness for the Glover family. Glover%u2019s eldest son Samuel Lawrence Glover received a commission as a second lieutenant in the 10th Battalion of 10th West Riding Battalion (Duke of Wellington%u2019s), arriving at the Western Front in August 2015. He was killed leading a small team crossing the enemy lines to investigate the German trenches in January 1916, aged 20. Mr Glover received a great deal of sympathy from fellow engineers and in reply Mr Glover concluded in a letter %u201cLet us all try to be worthy of our heroes%u201d. Samuel Lawrence Glover remembered on a plaque in the Princes St. United Reform Church in Norwich. Thomas Glover spent his remaining years in the city and died in 1941. A remembrance plaque was laid in his honour in St. Peter Mancroft church, near the old gas office and showroomRTSt. Leonards Terrace, former gas workers cottages