Humble Old Telegraph Pole Lamps
Lampy observes that telegraph poles are not as common as they used to be here in England. And nor are the street lights that are attached to them.
Here are some examples from a lane just off the A5 not far from Chase Town, near Cannock. Read and see more »
Glassy Tank and the Lamp post Ruin
At last, Lampy found some lamp posts with what he calls a Glassy Tank lantern. An example is below.
Lamp post with glassy tank lantern
Sheffield Fitzwilliam Street
Lampy remembers these beasts from the 1980s. They were old then!
He turned into Fitzwilliam Street fully expecting them to be long gone. Lo! Amidst all the new development, and of course new lamp posts, these relics of a glorious past survive to this very day! (As of May 2009). Lampy was chuffed that he had discovered long-thought dead creatures still alive after all! Read and see more »
Sheffield Lamp Posts
To Sheffield for an old friend’s stag do, a day of archery and lamp posts followed by an evening featuring the pernicious vices of booze, women and more lamp posts.
Concrete straight arm on bridge
UFL – Unidentified Flying Lamp-post
This Unidentified Flying Lamp-post (UFL) was submitted by John Lampfield, who remarked in an email to Lampy:
Tsk. Now you got me looking at bleedin’ lamp posts. Suddenly somehow they look weird. I am reminded of this:
UFL unidentified flying lamp-post