Could someone please tell me what these are called/where to find them.

[Resu]

A what? I wasn't aware there was such a thing as an eager labourer!

Never meant to thank that, just like lol

 

[Badged01]

But I've never seen yellow plastic bit before - just black ones.

That's because Tel was coming out of his apprenticeship and fitting these in the 50's whilst you were still running around the school yard in your shorts ..... :mellow:

 

[Geordie Spark]

That's because Tel was coming out of his apprenticeship and fitting these in the 50's whilst you were still running around the school yard in your shorts ..... :mellow:

When Tel came out of his apprenticeship lights, washing machines and domestic irons were all powered by gas.

When I was running around in my shorts the streets were lit by gas light and we kids would stand around the lamp at the end of the street waiting for it to come on. We were fascinated by the click, clunk and whooshing sound it made and then the sight of the mantle starting to glow - dim at first, but soon brightening up.

It was cheaper than going to the village picture hall where to have such excitement would have cost us sixpence. Each!

 

[Marvo]

......the streets were lit by gas light and we kids would stand around the lamp at the end of the street waiting for it to come on. We were fascinated by the click, clunk and whooshing sound it made and then the sight of the mantle starting to glow - dim at first, but soon brightening up.

My great grandfather was a lamp-lighter somewhere in Manchester.

 

[Geordie Spark]

My great grandfather was a lamp-lighter somewhere in Manchester.

Bloody hell .............. I thought he was a Zulu chief!

I remember the bloke coming around the streets every week to wind the clocks up in the lamps. He was an old bloke in an old threadbare flat cap and jacket & trousers - no Hi-Vis waterproof gear then - and he had a bike which carried him, an extension ladder, spare panes of glass (us kids were naughty & chucked stones at the lamps) a wash leather and polishing cloth and boxes of new mantles.

We used to follow him around on our bikes & watch him working and would pick-up the pieces of the broken mantles that he swapped out.

I still have a clock somewhere that he swapped out somewhere and gave me.

Today, we have electric street lighting and it takes a truck with a simon hoist and an squad of blokes all dressed like canaries just to change a light bulb / lamp!!!

Kids aren't interested in what they're doing and even if they were they would be chased away in the name of Health & Safety anyway.

And this is progress?????