Just trying to find out more information about an old street light near where I grew up. Link to the street light is: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1000458 ... Q3ubCg!2e0
Can anyone point me in the direction of where I could find out how old the metal part is? It looks ancient and also looks like it might not have been electric originally? The odd thing is that it’s the only one like it in the area, all the others are concrete, and just a couple of streets away they’ve started using the new LEDs, so it seems odd this one is still there.
Thank you in advance if you can help.
Vintage street light
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It looks like it was post-top but had an adapter added when the lighting changed from gas to electric. I have seen some like this in Harrogate, but I suspect they have gone now.JW_runner wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 17:59 Just trying to find out more information about an old street light near where I grew up. Link to the street light is: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1000458 ... Q3ubCg!2e0
Can anyone point me in the direction of where I could find out how old the metal part is? It looks ancient and also looks like it might not have been electric originally? The odd thing is that it’s the only one like it in the area, all the others are concrete, and just a couple of streets away, they’ve started using the new LEDs, so it seems odd this one is still there.
Thank you in advance if you can help.
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here is another example: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.98801 ... authuser=0
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Another old looking one. Can't tell if it was always electric or was gas at one point. There's another if you scroll the camera back.
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One in Reading:
https://goo.gl/maps/n9s7UCejNe6fxof98
As it was in 2014:
https://goo.gl/maps/1DX7kSUfAxzkkdH68
https://goo.gl/maps/n9s7UCejNe6fxof98
As it was in 2014:
https://goo.gl/maps/1DX7kSUfAxzkkdH68