Watch List notes:

The Portland Collection, Commemorative Medals, Engineering: Gas, Dover Gas Works, 21st Anniversary of the Establishment of the Recreation Room, silver medal, 1908, by Walker & Hall, Birmingham, a filled gasometer, rev. the Recreation Room committee, 54mm. (BHM.-), Birmingham Hallmark and maker's mark on edge, extremely fine and very rare
The Recreation and Reading Room was the brainchild of Raphael Herring (c. 1838 - 1911), the engineer and manager of the Gas Works, with the idea that it would 'raise the standard of intelligence amongst the men, and so benefit them and their employers'.