SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

I took a walk down to Park Square. I think they are modern imitations, in the style of gas lamps... I will take a picture of one today.

Ok Munki - Here's one Pack Horse yard

Here's a close-up to show it really is a gas-lamp!

And another - Ship Inn Yard this time. Funnily enough the lamp beyond the gas lamp and about half-a-dozen others in the yard are electric.

There used to be a couple of gaslamps on Calverley St. just before the entrance to the new A&E at LGI. I'm talking about 2 or 3 years ago.

I remember as a youngster, how nearer 'lighting up time' the pilot flames in these would get bigger, a good kick on the cast iron standard ( - no chance of damaging them!) would make them come on early.There were gas lamps just on one side of the street were I lived, but when the new electric lamps (am I sounding od now??) came along, they were errected on both sides. Shortly after their arrival, I was walking up the road with mum one day, and I found one were there used to be just a clear foot path, head first - that hurt!

Is it just me or were people expecting some kind of feedback here??you know, points on the board, the odd "well done" - or perhaps" no thats rubbish!" instead nothing.I'm beginning to think i've wasted my time.....

No absolutely not Drapsey.. Your putting some real effort in, well done, You obviously know your stuff. Don't expect any congrats tho...There a great bonus if you get them.. I look at it this way.. i do what i do because i enjoy it & if peole think it's great then good. If they don't..Stuff em...

Sorry Drapesy, 'Well Done', of course...I am busy this morning trying to conceive of some kind of Secret Leeds 'prze' for these little competitions... striking a balance between something worth having & something that we can afford (roughly £0 to spend at the moment!).I may have over-reached myself with the scoring system on this! Is a real, functioning, gas-lamp worth more than a surviving gas lamp-pole & canopy that has been converated to electric??? Is a wall-mounted one worth less than one with a pole??? I don't know.

You know what, there is such a wealth of knowledge pours through this site, always something others didn't know or someone who can add a little extra, I think it goes without the need to be said that every contribution is a 'well done' in one way or another, no one should, in my mind anyway, think that their contributions are seen as anything else!