ATV Today: 11.09.1973: Gas Lamp Lighter

Summary

Tony Maycock interviews the last gas lamp lighter employed in the city of Birmingham.

Year:

1973

Duration:

0:04:12

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see several daylight shots of gas lamps on a street in Birmingham. On the street Tony Maycock interviews a man who is the last gas lamp lighter employed by the council. He describes his job maintaining the last 200 lamps in the city. Maycock then interviews Arthur Lavender, Lighting Superintendent for Birmingham, about the phasing out of gas lamps in favour of electric ones.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

The final gas lamps in the city were on Duke Street, Gosta Green.