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Enchanting story of our last gas street lights, and the five men who keep them burning | Daily Mail Online
Historic Photographs - A lamp lighter in Finsbury Park, London (1935). Lamplighters were people hired to light gas lamps or maintain candlelight. Their jobs became obsolete when these street lamps were replaced
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