Competition - Gaslamps

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 5:12 pm

Phill good call, pdq too.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 5:19 pm

I lived on Wolseley Street as a kid.I remember the lamp lighter with the pole but please, can somebody explain to me how the lamps were lit? I seem to remember there being a chain inside the lamp?Please put me outa my misery!!

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 5:24 pm

Caron, sorry dunno and often wondered that.Nice old posters for mantles, probably woven asbestos to help lungs..

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 5:33 pm

Jogon wrote: Caron, sorry dunno and often wondered that.Nice old posters for mantles, probably woven asbestos to help lungs.. Maybe someone will be able to educate us..lol.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 5:42 pm

Caron wrote: Jogon wrote: Caron, sorry dunno and often wondered that.Nice old posters for mantles, probably woven asbestos to help lungs.. Maybe someone will be able to educate us..lol. The Earliest lamps required that a lamplighter tour the town at dusk, lighting each of the lamps, but later designs employed ignition devices that would automatically strike the flame when the gas supply as activated.A bit more info here!http://www.pkc.gov.uk/Transport+and+str ... ghting.htm

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 7:07 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: Caron wrote: Jogon wrote: Caron, sorry dunno and often wondered that.Nice old posters for mantles, probably woven asbestos to help lungs.. Maybe someone will be able to educate us..lol. The Earliest lamps required that a lamplighter tour the town at dusk, lighting each of the lamps, but later designs employed ignition devices that would automatically strike the flame when the gas supply as activated.A bit more info here!http://www.pkc.gov.uk/Transport+and+str ... ghting.htm Thanx Phill.It was in the early 60's when I remember them.I think by that time the pole he used was probably to lever the chain which ignited the lamp (?)He would come around in the morning and use the pole to put it out. Basic explanation but I don't know the correct terminology.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 8:37 pm

It surprises me how 'old' archive footage of Leeds early 70's looks when I was 12ish.Caron, think yr new on here so try this for nostalge-fest. It's been up before.The music somehow suits it perfectly.RISE AND FALL OF 1960's LEEDShttp://youtu.be/BFUqLfo23aI

kango · Post by **kango** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 8:52 pm

The ones near/outside Our house certainly came on automatically.Circa 1972kango

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 9:05 pm

Are they cooling towers in the distance?

kango · Post by **kango** » Fri 20 Apr, 2012 9:08 pm

Yes Skelton Grange .same scene today.Kango.