On this thread, its going to look at restoring and preserving old and Current Street Lighting From Liverpool dating From the 1920s Through to Present day

These were Acquired in the 1990s and are now fully rewired and a new reflector fitted

Some Highfield Mannors i restored in 2011

I'd like to see your electric bill

Just out of curiosity, where do you get street lights from?

wire them up to the ones out on the street and the council will pick up the tab

Just seen this over on Flickr...looks like Bradford had a few of our top entry oval lanterns! I do remember some of these on Barnfield Drive before replacement in 2004/5

I had 1 of those top mounted Lanterns .. i got it from Netherley Lpool... But in a moment of madness and the ex wife nagging.. i thew it in a Skip ..... aaarrrhhh ..

Re: the lecky bill .. the Mercury lanterns only use 80w per lantern... but strangely they can all run with a 1 Amp fuse in line..... even with a surge ... so realistically they dont use alot...

I got some from the council in the 90s some i acquired from personal initiative and recently the new sub contracted company (enterprise Liverpool) at a cost ... and
Private land owners who upgraded their lighting so i emailed them and acquired them.

My recent Projects are 2 original Liverpool Gas Lanterns.... again, both acquired from private land who upgraded there lighting to 2011 standards...

More Photos of the Gas Lamp Project

UPDATE... Liverpool Gas Lamp project photos

Good work there!

Are you planning on getting your hands on one of the tall mast lanterns from town? All replaced or due for replacement.

I wouldn't mind, But its about Timing .. and weather Enterprise Liverpool are willing to donate ...

After looking on the scheduled works website, it looks as if all the main road ones are going. Riverside Drive and Islington appear to be unaffected.

The Gaslamp project is now complete

So that is actually running on gas?

Yes its running on Propane, a bottle in my shed piped out to the lamps...it gives off a great light...

Another Gas Lamp Project... i acquired another gas lantern which had been converted to electric....so i set about making the insides of it with parts i got from various sources..

the biggest challenge was to make the Mantle holders in the Liverpool style of the 20s and 30s...the important part was to get the Gas jet size right for use on propane gas witch runs at 37Mb...(millibar), the old streetlamps up to the late 1960s ran on Coal gas or Town gas at 6.25 Mb until natural gas was introduced and gas lamps were replaced. Natural gas was 20Mb.

2 months and alot of experiments i got it right.