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Ok...The past few months WDC has turned off the street lights between Midnight and 5am...
Now they are back on thru the night...Or are they..
One night they are on...The next they are off...Then on again...Some stay on thru the daylight hours and turn off at night...
Some come on half way thru the night...Some come on at 1pm...
The streetlights outside my house come on in the morning..blaze away thru the day..and go out at night...One just stays on all the time..
A couple of times, they were all on... street after street, around my way...all day and all night..
WDC..Yep...You sure got that sorted out... 
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I've noticed recently that the ones here where I live in Carlton Colville are 'undecided' as to what they want to do although I've not seen them on during the day - yet!
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Just so you know - Lowestoft’s Street Lighting has nothing to do with WDC - it’s Suffolk County Council. This link gives you more information: http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/streetlighting about what’s happening - or should be happening! 
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Pauly Knub
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Trigger...
Are they on 'timers'...Or do they have 'light sensors' on them..
I wonder where the big 'on/off' switch is..?
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Pauly: Don't you get technical with me! 
I would have no idea . . . it might be worth going to the main page of "Debate Lowestoft Isses" - and about the 7th title down is "Dimming/switching off Lowestoft's Streetlights" - there were quite a lot of comments about this. It might be worth reading through the posts - it might "throw some light" on the matter!
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Thought i would post on here. The lights have been on at night recently due to the xmas eve and new year partys so they decided to leave them on. They are controlled by radio waves so at midnight or just after they go off but if there is a fault in the system it causes them to stay on. But if you email the council they soon fix it as they did in my area when they were on within 2 days of my email they were corrected. I must admit its a pain if they cant even work the system properly. Also they have sensors on the top of them if you look they look like little cones they are the switches that work by radio waves.
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They did go off by me last night and on again at 5-30 this morning.
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They were off between midnight and 5.30am last night. I still think that it is a mistake to turn them off.
I agree with you, Meryl. I couldn't believe it when talking to my relatives there and they mentioned the lights.
Vinny, why should it be imnportant for the lights to be on for Christmas Even & New Year's Eve parties? Why are those events more important than having them on every other night for people that are out and about maybe getting to and from work or other parties?
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Just to be different... I don't think turning them out at night is a problem at all. Most rural villages without lights in the first place can cope.
It does puzzle me though as you say they might as well leave them on every Friday and Saturday night as people are out til late then and not just Xmas and New years eve. Maybe they should leave them on until 1 or 2am on those nights?
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Trouble with that James is - us townies are used to having the lights on throughout the night - whereas those in rural villages (think Walberswick!) don't have lights - therefore they are used to it!
Perhaps we all need to Eat More Carrots - and then we'll be able to see better in the dark! 
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Trigger you must be younger tha I thought did you not grow up with them off, i did, cant remember when it changed over but I certainly reeber them always going out at midnight
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No Meryl much later than that - i m not that old I dont remember gas lights i will try and find out when it changed
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Trigger you must be younger tha I thought did you not grow up with them off, i did, cant remember when it changed over but I certainly reeber them always going out at midnight
I can't remember - although it wasn't that long ago! 
I wouldn't know if they went off at midnight as I was always fast asleep in my bed!
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Meryl I think that sounds right I was going to say 70's and 80's but just wasnt sure time plays such tricks on you I personally dont think they were on between midnight to 5.30am from war time until 70s or as your son says maybe even 80s I remember I had to be in about 10 or 10.30 in my teens although I stuck to the rules I would be still awake listening to radio luxemberg in bed when the lights went out and that would tell me it was midnight
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in ilford the lights stayed on all night.green lamposts if memory serves
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I remember the gas lights at the top of Kirkley Run and I'm only 58.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the 70's & 80's I seem to recall the street lamps on the estate I lived being turned off at midnight, but the only ones I remember being left on all night, were ones on or adjacent to road junctions.
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Yes thats what we had concluded Smiley that they were all off from midnight to 5.30am from war years to some time in 70s or 80s I ve been trying to find out a date when it changed but havent come up with anything firm yet
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I think it changed in the early 90's on my estate 91/92.
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i may have the edge on age franki but i sure dont remember gas,may possibly been some old gas post around .i think all places outside big cities had turn off time
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i just thought,light pollution became a problem in the 60's so my guess the lights were off before then
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SD as I know it the gas lamps used to be extinguished at a certain time of night (but I wasnt around either) so when the electric street lamps came in they followed being put out at midnight, and this continued until the 70's or 80's or as Smiley says possibly the early 90s , then they started leaving them on all night now 2011 they have gone full crcle and started putting some of them out at 12 again
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and that how we got light pollution.i think i came home from guides once and me ma met me with torch but that very long time ago.i really only remember ilford with street lamps then in late 60's went to romford and they defo on there all night but i always lived in or near hospital so maybe lights in those areas would alwayss be on at night.
all i know is when i moved here it was on first night here i saw stars in sky which i not seen for many years,quite mesmorizing very lovely.
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I found this 2009 article on the pages of the BBC website:
"Alun Salisbury recalls growing up in Cefn Mawr (North East Wales) and meeting lamp-lighter Reg Hayes . ." http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/wrexham/pages/gaslight.shtml
An interesting memory of the lamplighter: 'I left the works at about 3.30pm on a winter's afternoon. I had to light 60 lamps over a distance of about four miles. By 5.30pm I would be finished. But then at 10.30pm I would go and turn them all out. You could use the torch to knock the gas tap off as well as lighting it.'
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but you said earlier you only moved here 4 years ago and the street lights would have been on full blast then SD
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I would think that SD's comment: "all i know is when i moved here it was on first night here i saw stars in sky which i not seen for many years,quite mesmorizing very lovely" may well have been due to the fact that there's less "light pollution" here than there was where she'd lived previously.
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Well maybe thats what she meant Trigger i dont think we can see nearly enough stars even here though,- the only time i ve seen a real sky of stars has been when I ve been camping deep in the rurals or years ago befre the country was lit up like a Christmas tree (I m being topical now)
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You do get to see a few of the brighter ones here Meryl but not the mass that are up there
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