Lighting by gas lamp

We returned on Monday from Morocco, with a four hour wait on the runway, waiting for a landing slot at Gatwick airport.

The nearly four hour flight home was followed with a further 75 minutes processing and a three hour drive home in a real pea souper.
My entry today celebrates the fog!!

I have shown one of these gas lamps BEFORE and fancied trying again in the dense fog that surrounds us.

They make an eerie sight in the fog.

The gas lamps were erected by Christchurch Borough between 1902 and 1910, as Holdenhurst was not incorporated into Bournemouth until April 1931.

The lamp posts were cast by the Ringwood and Pokesdown Foundries and the lanterns were supplied by Suggs. Each lantern is fitted with its own governor and controlled by a clockwork timer manufactured by ‘Gunfire’, a Boscombe firm specialising in this type of equipment.


The gas lamps were listed Grade II by English Heritage in 1994.