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Streetlighting websites in the UK
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Adam Lachen details his growing collection of lanterns, and invites us on an illustrated tour of installations in Bury St. Edmunds, Cambridge, and Edinburgh. |
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Adam's Lights
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Alex Monk's Website mainly concentrates on streetlighting in London and South West England, but other places in the UK are also included. There's also information regarding streetlighting on the M1 and M25 Motorways. |
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Streetlighting |
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Andrew Pate documents his streetlighting collection and the restoration work he has undertaken to renovate some of his old and interesting lanterns from Carlisle in Cumbria. |
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Andrew Stanley is another streetlighting collector and has an extensive collection of modern illuminaires. His website also includes photographs of streetlighting installations in Britain, Europe, and America. |
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Collection
Street Lighting
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Bob Cookson is a long-established collector of streetlighting and has amassed an incredible collection of lanterns and streetlighting apparatus spanning the last 100 years. His lighting collection is well illustrated on his website, along with a history of Eastbourne's streetlighting. |
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Chris Nelson's website looks at his interest in streetlighting, and includes pictures of his collection and streetlighting in York and North Yorkshire. |
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The
Northern Streetlights
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Colin Grimes's extensive collection of streetlighting lanterns and specialist lamps are shown to good effect on this informative and regularly updated website. Also excellent for identifying lantern and lamps types. |
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The
Colin's Grimes Collection
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Davy Warren's regularly updated site not only details his extensive collection of lanterns, but is well illustrated with good clear photographs of streetlighting in South West England. |
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DP's new website details his interest in streetlighting and all things electrical. The site also also includes a growing number of streetlighting pictures. |
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DP's Electrical Site
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Ian Young documents his growing collection of preserved lanterns, and also takes us on an illustrated tour of streetlighting in the towns and villages of West Wales with some super photographs. |
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| James Hooker's incredible, and fully illustrated website on all there is to know about the history of discharge lamps and how discharge lighting works. An absolute must see site. |
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Lamptech |
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Jon Salmon's website has lots of close-up shots of some very rare and unusual lanterns. A superbly illustrated quick reference guide in the recognition of older lantern types. |
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Lighting telephoto |
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Matthew Eagles website provides an in-depth look at SOX low-pressure sodium discharge lamps and explains how they work. The site includes a quick reference guide to SOX lantern types from Philips and Thorn. |
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| Mike Barford documents his extensive collection of streetlighting lanterns and the restoration work undertaken to renovate them. There's also lots of technical information, as well as pictures of installations past and present. |
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Nigel Spink's site details his growing collection of lanterns, and includes photos of streetlighting in and around Hemel Hempstead. |
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Hemel
Hempstead Street Lighting
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| Phil MacBean's photographic collection of installations around the UK and USA. Also included are video clips of various types of discharge lamps during start up. |
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Lighting pictures- here and
there
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Russell Oakes' streetlighing site looks at streetlighting installations in the North West of England, including Cheshire, Cumbria, Merseyside, Lancashire, and Manchester. |
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Scot Bearford has some excellent pictures of old and interesting streetlighting in South East England; including the manufacture and model identification of different types of concrete columns used for lighting purposes. |
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Simon Cornwell is another well known and established collector of streetlighting, and has a fantastic and extensive collection of old streetlighting lanterns and brackets. His website is also an encyclopedia on everything you could ever want to know about British streetlighting manufacturers and the products they once made. |
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| Tim Luckett has the longest-running streetlighting website in the UK. Tim has been taking streetlighting photographs for many years, and has fortunately captured on camera some very rare and unusual lanterns in situ, many of which have long since gone. |
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European based streetlighting websites
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| Sander Sloots is a Netherlands based enthusiast who has an extensive lantern collection and an in-depth knowledge of streetlighting in the Netherlands. This is shown to good effect in his excellent website which is well worth visiting. |
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Lantaarnpalen
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| Aubin Ribeyron is a French based enthusiast whose streetlighting website details the history of streetlighting in France and looks at some of the historical remnants of ancient installations, as well as documenting current French streetlighting installations. |
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Streetlighting websites in the USA and Canada
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| Joe Maurath Jr is a Boston based enthusiast who has his own streetlighting museum, containing 100's of examples of historic streetlighting exhibits from in and around New England, USA. Lots of pictures and information. |
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Joe Maurath Jr.'s Streetlight Gallery |
| Silverliner Man's revamped website focusing on vintage US streetlighting, but in particular California’s streetlighting scene, as well as featuring his lamps and lanterns collection. |
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| Streetlighting Heaven was created as a spinoff of Doc Johnson's (US) site. It deals with the history behind some of the most popular US manufacturers, and the evolution of American streetlight fixtures over the past 50 years. |
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Streetlight Heaven |
| Michel Blanchet takes us on an illustrated tour of Quebec City and Montrea with lots of atmospheric photographs of streetlighting and general views of the two Cities. |
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Streetlighting websites in Australia
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| Michael Greenslade takes on a tour of Australia's streetlighting scene with some superb photgraphs and lots of luminaires with a British outline. |
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Australian
Streetlights
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