The production of electric soup, primarily a pastime of alcoholics and teenagers, finally died out when North Sea Gas replaced Coal Gas in the 1970s as its composition didn't favour its production. The name later became used as the title of a short-lived Glaswegian underground comic book series.
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Looking along the Forth and Clyde Canal to the Temple gas holders. These once held the town gas produced by heating coal at the surrounding Temple Gas Works. This gas was then used to power both street and domestic lights, but when bubbled through milk, it produced a purple mixture known locally as electric soup which, while potentially lethal, had an intoxicating and mildly hallucinagenic effect when drunk.
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No. 4 Gasholder at the former Temple Gas Works in west of Glasgow. Built by the Barrowfield Ironworks Ltd for the Corporation of Glasgow Gas Department. It's 41.5 metres high and about 73 metres in diameter. When in use, it had three telescopic steel shells which would rise and fall as the volume of gas stored in it changed, ensuring a consistent pressure to the local gas supply.
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Night at the old Temple Gasworks on the outskirts of Glasgow.
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