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%u2022 Issue 112 %u2022 September 2022 %u2022Historic Gas Timespage8page8TheHISTORIC GAS TIMESPublished quarterlyEditors: John Britland Horne and Russell ThomasAnnual Subscription UK: %u00a38.00 | Overseas: %u00a315.00 | Via email: %u00a36.00 Cheques payable to: IGEM History FundHGT Subscriptions, IGEM House26 & 28 High Street, Kegworth, Derbyshire DE74 2DASubscription enquiries: +44(0) 1509 678 150 or visit www.igem.org.uk/HGT IGEM members can subscribe alongside their membershipAssuming that Sudbury gas works closed in the 1920s its workers might well have worn old Trilbys but the many small gas works had little interaction. For the winter months they often recruited seasonally unemployed agricultural labour who presumably brought their usual working clothes. Men who habitually wore flat hats all summer would probably do the same in the retort house, regardless.JBHFREDERICK INNES OBEDr Mary Mills writes:-%u201cThe recent article on Great War Bomb Damage, commented on the Silvertown explosion, but it is a pity he didn't pick up on the OBE awarded to valvesman Innes. This is a paragraph from my longer article about the explosion.\ the holder site Chief Valvesman Frederick Innes was on duty with his assistant who we only know as %u2018Percy%u2019. As the shock wave raced across the river Innis acted with unbelievable speed and turned off the gas supply to the mains from holder no.2. so that the gas supply to south London was switched to Old Kent Road works and pressure was kept on the mains. It was for that he got his OBE. Frederick Innes died only four years later in 1921 and is buried in Ladywell Cemetery. Of course back here in Greenwich the remains of Gasholder No.2. have finally been destroyed as the site where the machines have gone in for the Silvertown Tunnel. The tank had remained since demolition - and was of course specially designed for the marshy subsoil. All gone.%u201dMary MillsFrom the Northerner in 1969, this photograph had originally been provided from the archives of Tees Division of Northern Gas. This gem of a photograph demonstrating of High-Speed Salesmanship in the First World War Years. No exact date can be affixed. but we would like to hear from any readers who can place it. One thing is certain, the car does not bear an %u2018 H %u2018 registration. lt also proves that we have much to learn from the ingenuity of those days.RTTHE GAS MAN COMETH