[Lancs Lad]

This picture is exactly what we used to have on this road when I was growing up in the 1970s. With proper incandescent bulbs, and timeclocks in every column that made a very audible 'clunk' when they switched themselves on and off. I don't think photocells had even been invented back then.


Obviously not with the sodium lamp in the picture, just a very pleasing six-sided glass bowl (if that's the right word for it!)

I miss those elegant lamp columns, and the gentle light they provided. I know modern lamps are terribly efficient, but they're a bit soulless, aren't they?

I wonder what wattage the bulbs would have been? They looked pretty big bulbs when I used to watch them being replaced. 150s maybe? Or would they have been more powerful?