Methane gas lamps in sheffield

[willybite 10]

Stewart Road one still working but a bit dim. Would love to see these restored.

 

hiya i knew of one on cecil rd if cecil rd is still there.

[the currs 10]

there is two on Taptonville Cresecent, Broomhill, S10 5BP, but have now been converted to mains gas supply

[Plain Talker 11]

hiya i knew of one on cecil rd if cecil rd is still there.

 

Sadly, Cecil road is now covered over by Mount Pleasant Park (it covers the area from Sitwell road to Horner Road/ Herschell road, and the area from the top side of Mount pleasant road right up over to where the back gardens of Cecil Road were, abutting to the lower part (Abbeydale Road end) of Vincent Road.

 

As mentioned in a previous post, there are still two of these sewer lamps left, locally. One at the top of Cemetery road/ Sharrow Lane junction, at the top of Frog Walk, and the other at the junction of Alderson Road and London Road.

[carosio 186]

The one on Shiregreen lane is here (broken glass), Jenkin Road one has the mantle missing.

 

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv12/carosio/Gaslamp.jpg

Edited June 26, 2011 by carosio

[soft ayperth 11]

I never realized that sewer gas was used to power these lamps. Did all the old gas lamps function in this way or was it just a select few as the web site quoted above seems to suggest? The old fashioned gas lamps were all over the city.

[carosio 186]

Some more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_gas_destructor_lamp

 

Most of the city's lamps ran on town gas from the local gas works.

[Steptoad 12]

I never realized that sewer gas was used to power these lamps. Did all the old gas lamps function in this way or was it just a select few as the web site quoted above seems to suggest? The old fashioned gas lamps were all over the city.

 

From memory, the sewer gas didn't actually power these lamps, but was burned off by them to prevent a gas build up, the light was a useful by product.

[Elmambo 25]

Quite right steptoad, they also provided ventilation by creating an updraught.

[Odd-jobs 10]

Bottom of Handsworth Hill just before the junction with Prince of Wales Road .Working up to its disappearance some years ago.I think its only gone in the last 20 years or so ,but perhaps thats just me growing old.

Powered by gas from "the darkie" a tunnel running under the bottom of Handsworth Hill, not a sewer though, actually the stream that runs through Bowden Wood.

Edited June 26, 2011 by Odd-jobs

[BRUMMIE LASS 10]

I don't know if you have allready listed it but there is one that looks like it used to be a sewer lamp on London Rd on the corner by the Chemist where the Cream horn pub i think it's called is,one of the cross bars where they used to put a ladder up is missing as well as the glass top being damaged,such a pity as they are part of Sheffields History..

[the_rudeboy 12]

I don't know if you have allready listed it but there is one that looks like it used to be a sewer lamp on London Rd on the corner by the Chemist where the Cream horn pub i think it's called is,one of the cross bars where they used to put a ladder up is missing as well as the glass top being damaged,such a pity as they are part of Sheffields History..

Oh I so wish it was called that.

 

It's The Cremorne.

[Steptoad 12]

Oh I so wish it was called that.

 

It's The Cremorne.

 

Brilliant, my first laugh of the day, a genuine thank you:hihi:. I was trying to work out where the Cream Horn was