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Researchers at the University of Bristol have recently published a new report looking at the history of the gas industry in Bristol and would like to hear from readers who can share their memories, documents, photographs or artifacts.Bristol Digital Futures Institute, one of the first research hubs to move into St Philips as part of the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, commissioned researchers at the University to take a look at the social and industrial heritage of their renovated building, the former headquarters of the Bristol Gas Company.The innovations brought by the introduction of gas lighting changed the way residents lived and worked forever. The report examines issues around working conditions, industrial action, the impact of war, the role of women in the workplace, the development of the night-time economy, crime, pollution, domestic life and the transformation of local businesses and industry.We would like to dig deeper into the ways these elements changed people%u2019s lives. The archives can tell us many things, but we would like to hear the personal stories that are often missed. Did your grandfather work at the Gas Company? Do you have any historical photographs of the Avon Street gasworks? Are there stories about the gasworks during the Second World War? If so, we would love to hear these memories either through our online survey or in an oral history conversation. For more information, please contact Lena Ferriday, avonstreet-project@bristol.ac.uk.Lena Ferriday, University of BristolHistoric Gas Times%u2022 Issue 113 %u2022 December 2022 %u2022pagepage22Samuel Loxton illustration of the Gasworks, 1919. Loxton Collection, J785. By permission of %u00a9Bristol Libraries. REDEVELOPMENT OF THE AVON STREET GASWORKS SITEThe Avon Street Gasworks, c1950