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Re: Lights On...Lights Off... « Reply #30 Posted: 06 January 2012 at 10:07 PM »
As a child I remember the gaslighter going round on a bike putting out/on the gas lights in Kirkley, he used a long pole to do this.. This would have been just after the war.
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Re: Lights On...Lights Off... « Reply #31 Posted: 06 January 2012 at 10:48 PM »
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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Re: Lights On...Lights Off... « Reply #32 Posted: 07 January 2012 at 08:28 AM »
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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Re: Lights On...Lights Off... « Reply #33 Posted: 07 January 2012 at 09:25 AM »
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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Re: Lights On...Lights Off... « Reply #34 Posted: 07 January 2012 at 09:48 AM »
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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Re: Lights On...Lights Off... « Reply #35 Posted: 07 January 2012 at 10:52 AM »
I look at the stars everynight from my back garden at 10pm, when I take my dog out. There is 1 particular one which I say goodnight to.
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Re: Lights On...Lights Off... « Reply #36 Posted: 07 January 2012 at 02:57 PM »
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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Re: Lights On...Lights Off... « Reply #37 Posted: 07 January 2012 at 03:28 PM »
I always know when its midnight because the street lights go off outside mine Smiley
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