Fantasy Realms

Nicholas Weeks said:
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Even the horse is vaping! :eek:

Sadly, I think Victorian London rainfall would have been really sooty!

When I was a kid, our back garden backed onto the mainline out of Euston Station to the North. Many a wash hung out to dry got dusted with ash as the trains went by.

But ... get this ... London still has something like 1,500 functioning gas lamps.

British Gas employs five lamplighters, who visit each lamp on a fortnightly rotation to wind mechanisms, polish glass, replace lime-oxide mantles (which produce the warm, parchment-like glow), and adjust timers to account for seasonal daylight changes. Some of the oldest lamps date to the 1820s.

I saw a lamplighter interviewed on tv, and he said the lamps were eco-friendly, but I can't remember how ...
 
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