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- Most of the lamps are serviced by a small team of dedicated British Gas ‘Lamplighters’, whose role involves adjusting the lighting mechanisms in tandem with the changing hours of sunrise and sunset, cleaning the lamps and carrying out any necessary repairs and maintenance.
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- There are still 1500 gas lamps in London. They don’t need lighting every night, but the timer that lights them automatically needs adjusting every fortnight to keep pace with shorter or longer days.
- Before timers, lamps were lit with an 8ft long brass pole with a pilot light – last used around Temple 1976.
- Gas lighting first appeared in Pall Mall in 1812, thanks to Frederick Winsor – originally with wooden gas pipes. This, unfortunately, resulted in a lot of explosions and a few deaths.
- The oldest lamps near Carlton House Terrace have George IV’s initials on them.
Dec 22, 2016 · There are 1,500 gas lamps left in London which British Gas’ team of five lamplighters look after. These historic lamps stretch from Richmond Bridge in the west to Bromley-by-Bow in the east. The oldest lamps are in Westminster Abbey and the newest lights up a popular retail store in Covent Garden.
Gas was produced using a carbonising furnace at the Pall Mall premises. With permission of the Prince Regent, it was fed through iron pipes from the building’s rear to lamps in the adjacent street at the prince’s home of Carlton House, and also to St. James’s Park.
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Dec 19, 2016 · British Gas (keeper of these lights) has released an interactive map, taking you on a gas lamp tour through central London. The 35-odd-minute stroll leads from Buckingham Palace (The Mall has...
Gas lighting proved so popular that, within 15 years, almost every large town in Britain, as well as major cities in Europe, North America and beyond, had a gas works. The Company which Winsor founded, the Gas Light and Coke Company, continued to supply most of London’s gas until the industry was nationalised in 1949.
