Competition - Gaslamps

Leeds by gaslight. Let's make a record of them all, before they go.
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I took a walk down to Park Square. I think they are modern imitations, in the style of gas lamps... I will take a picture of one today.
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Ok Munki - Here's one Pack Horse yard
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Here's a close-up to show it really is a gas-lamp!
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And another - Ship Inn Yard this time. Funnily enough the lamp beyond the gas lamp and about half-a-dozen others in the yard are electric.
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There used to be a couple of gaslamps on Calverley St. just before the entrance to the new A&E at LGI. I'm talking about 2 or 3 years ago.

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I remember as a youngster, how nearer 'lighting up time' the pilot flames in these would get bigger, a good kick on the cast iron standard ( - no chance of damaging them!) would make them come on early.There were gas lamps just on one side of the street were I lived, but when the new electric lamps (am I sounding od now??) came along, they were errected on both sides. Shortly after their arrival, I was walking up the road with mum one day, and I found one were there used to be just a clear foot path, head first - that hurt!

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Is it just me or were people expecting some kind of feedback here??you know, points on the board, the odd "well done" - or perhaps" no thats rubbish!" instead nothing.I'm beginning to think i've wasted my time.....
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No absolutely not Drapsey.. Your putting some real effort in, well done, You obviously know your stuff. Don't expect any congrats tho...There a great bonus if you get them.. I look at it this way.. i do what i do because i enjoy it & if peole think it's great then good. If they don't..Stuff em...
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Sorry Drapesy, 'Well Done', of course...I am busy this morning trying to conceive of some kind of Secret Leeds 'prze' for these little competitions... striking a balance between something worth having & something that we can afford (roughly £0 to spend at the moment!).I may have over-reached myself with the scoring system on this! Is a real, functioning, gas-lamp worth more than a surviving gas lamp-pole & canopy that has been converated to electric??? Is a wall-mounted one worth less than one with a pole??? I don't know.
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You know what, there is such a wealth of knowledge pours through this site, always something others didn't know or someone who can add a little extra, I think it goes without the need to be said that every contribution is a 'well done' in one way or another, no one should, in my mind anyway, think that their contributions are seen as anything else!

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