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English Street Lights Online

and welcome to the site. I have, for many years, been interested in the somewhat unusual subject of street lighting. This interest resulted in the acquiring of my first lantern in 2002, and since then, I have acquired many more. With my collection now consisting of lanterns and associated running equipment from a variety of eras, I am able to assemble something of a virtual history of street lighting in the United Kingdom (especially that of the Derbyshire area) through this site.

Ten years have now passed since that hallowed first lantern was acquired, and in that time, street lighting technologies have changed considerably - back in 2002, an LED was a device that told you when your television was in standby mode, and produced very little useful light. Today, the devices are increasingly being used in applications where previously they would never have been suitable, all because of rapid advances in technology. In the future, who knows what will happen: could the concept of physically replacing a lamp every few years become extinct? As a certain Bob Dylan once sang, "The Times They Are a-Changin'"; how apt this statement has become.

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