Competition - Gaslamps

Leeds by gaslight. Let's make a record of them all, before they go.
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Richard A Thackeray
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'Newbie', but long time (& extremely fascinated) browser hereSorry to diverisfy away from Leeds, but there's a pub in Wakefield that is lit by gas-lamps.Well, not in entirety, but parts of it are at least.It still has its small rooms (& 'dining chambers') that haven't really been altered for the last 100years +It's the 'Kings Arms' up on Heath Common.http://www.hbclark.co.uk/kingsarms/inde ... e%20357199

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Post by Patexpat »

Gosh yes - I remember have a drink or two at the Kings Arms when I was in my early twenties .... and that would be in the early 80's before anyone makes a wise crack!Just for info, and I KNOW this isn't Leeds but it is gas lamps - I believe the third largest user of gas illumination in England is the Worth Valley Railway over t'Haworth way - 5 out of 6 stations plus car parks and yards use gas!

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One by the cotage by Oll swing bridge canal at Rodley.One by the lodge in Calverley Woods.Apologies if they appear earlier in the thread.....

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I've got three gaslamp 'guess where' pics going on flickr at the moment.I haven't seen them mentioned in this thread either.I know Brandy and the Chameleon like a good challenge.Anyone else?The pics are in this set herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/sets/7 ... tail/Happy hunting     
My flickr pictures are herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/Because lunacy was the influence for an album. It goes without saying that an album about lunacy will breed a lunatics obsessions with an album - The Dark side of the moon!

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Are you sure those ones by the shop door are legit, they look like coach lamps on stained ply wood.

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Phill_dvsn wrote: I've got three gaslamp 'guess where' pics going on flickr at the moment.I haven't seen them mentioned in this thread either.I know Brandy and the Chameleon like a good challenge.Anyone else?The pics are in this set herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/sets/7 ... tail/Happy hunting      Is the first Queen Square - if so an easy one.The other two are excellent challenges.Will you pay my petrol as I search for them?

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Yes the first is Queens square.I agree with you that is an easy one.It isn't a guess where because it says where it is on the pic lol The other two are guess wheres though!
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I might be wrong but I think i saw a non-functioning one in the hedge on Gelderd Road, just before the Gildersome Arms traffic lights on the left as you head towards Birstall. I was driving and OH had a fit about keeping my eyes on the road and stopping at the traffic lights or something, so can anybody up that way clarify?

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Post by barneyrubble »

Ain't life funny, just come across this thread tonight, and just the other day I took a photo of a "Gas Street Light"it is minus the shade but the fitting is still there, It is by the side of Leeds Parish Church on Church Row.    
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/katie_alice/3846554990/I don't know if this'll work..... ************************Edit by me phill.d..yes the link works fine Katie well done It's a guesswhere gaslamp that the delightful Katie has found, can you guess where it is guys?     

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