This type of street lighting, originally gas and converted to electricity in the 1940s, was common Tyneside side streets well into the seventies, paritcularly in the former Borough of Tynemouth, which had some very interesting and long lived variety of street lights. ( See the top photo).
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Classic Tyneside street lighting
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