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Very slight change of subject: anyone (else) remember lamplighters?I lived in North London (Hatch End) as a small child, and we had a lamplighter for a couple of years - my mum would stand me on the windowsill to watch him do the one by our garden gate. Then they were fitted with timers.Bristol still has at least one street in Kingsdown lit by gas lamps (on timers, sadly). Our Hippodrome theatre also used gas for its emergency lighting well into the 1980s. Last time I went though the fittings were still there, complete with mantles, but not working. Shame.E.
Very slight change of subject: anyone (else) remember lamplighters?
I lived in North London (Hatch End) as a small child, and we had a lamplighter for a couple of years - my mum would stand me on the windowsill to watch him do the one by our garden gate. Then they were fitted with timers.
Bristol still has at least one street in Kingsdown lit by gas lamps (on timers, sadly). Our Hippodrome theatre also used gas for its emergency lighting well into the 1980s. Last time I went though the fittings were still there, complete with mantles, but not working. Shame.
E.
