I am perusing a website of old York images, and have found a few gems.
You may need to go to this page first, and open the gallery page, before the below links will work.
http://www.imagineyork.co.uk/warning.htmlPetergate: This image has been taken during WW2... and there looks like an open lantern on the left hand side. Possibly a Revo Stella or Lunella, maybe
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESThis picture has been taken at the early part of WW2, and again is in Petergate. For those who know York city centre, where Petergate and Stonegate meet at a crossroads (Stonegate leads into Minster Yard, and there is the York Minster standing in front of you as you look down the road) there is a massive cast iron column. I had wondered if this had been a repro, as it has an Urbis Albany installed... turns out it isn't a repro, and the Albany is actually damn close to what the original lantern installed here was!
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESThe bracket is the same too
This next one is Petergate in 1980. The big column to the left of the image is the one shown in the previous picture. If you look down the road, there is a building with scaffolding on it - the next building from it has a wall bracket and an open lantern fitted
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESThose pics were from this page:
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Huntington Road in 1982, and the River Foss has flooded. The S&L Columns have what look like GEC Z9554's installed - which would make sense, as it's sister road (Haxby Road) still has them installed.
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Hills Yard, Walmgate, in 1933 - and the prominent feature is the clockwork-controlled gas lantern
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Holgate House in 1903
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESHolgate Road... A tram is coming towards them down Holgate Road. This tram would have been on the Haxby Road and Holgate Road route - which was constructed in 1909 and required the strengthening of Lendal Bridge and the reconstruction of the Holgate railway bridge. In 1909 the city rejected an offer by Thomas Tilling to run petrol-electric buses so trams were not challenged by buses until 1914
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESStelmer may be able to work out where this image is... Especially if I say that this junction now has a Triple-Headed column with Urbis ZX3's on it. The tram shelter is of the same design as still-surviving tram shelters at Clifton Green and at the Heworth Green/Malton Road/Stockton Lane roundabout.
Cecelia Place in 1933 - note the open lantern halfway down on the left
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESHolgate Bridge, 1990's. Those with a very keen eye may be able to make out a Revo Dalek (top entry) hanging on conduit from the first "straight" overhead beam. Follow up with your eyes from the woman walking with her son, follow that overhead beam across to the middle section, then follow that middle section back towards yourself - and the line of this beam is interrupted by the Dalek. The lanterns were replaced several years ago by Urbis Limpets (2 Daleks replaced by 4 Limpets), and at the time of replacement Amey wanted them to be offset... as the Daleks were right in the middle of the road, so lamp changing was challenging (especially with how First bus drivers in York are!)
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1980, Whip-wa-whop-ma-gate (the shortest street with the longest name - the name itself was rendered Whitnourwhatnourgate in the sixteenth century, the name began as an Old English joke on the street's size, translating roughly as "What a street! Call this a street?") and above the Mercedes van is a Revo Monarch column with Revo Horizon lantern. the column still stands, but within the past 2 weeks, a QSS with CDM-T lamp has been installed, replacing a QSM with SON lamp.
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No streetlights here, but this is the Haxby Road tram terminus - roughly 1914. This is at the junction with Rose Street, and the hill behind is actually the bridge going over the Foss Islands Branch Line (which led to the Derwent Valley Light Railway), and on the other side of the bridge is the Rowntrees/Nestle factory. in the 1950's/60's a new bridge was built parallel to the existing bridge, and the two were joined together to provide the existing bridge over the former railway
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Two images you have to see now.
This one is the frontage of the Rowntrees factory in about 1950. The small building in the middle is the Joseph Rowntree memorial library, and the bus (possibly a Bristol, but Claire may know better) is the number 12 to Huntington and Haxby. The lighting column in the foreground is to illuminate the crossing in front of the bus - and has a massive outreach, the lantern can be found if you look in those trees! (follow straight up from the walking man dressed in black in front of the bus)
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGES1950, the entrance to the City General Hospital (now part of York st John university) - and a rather grand column stands in front, with an unknown open lantern
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If you wondered what lanterns New Earswick used when it was first built, this image answers it... in a "What the ...." kind of way!
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESa wood pole, and the biggest side road lantern I've ever seen!! At least when the Eleco Ways were installed, it was a step down in size terms!
So this is why this corner of the village was called "IVY PLACE"!!
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESAerial view of early New Earswick, and my original dates of the village have been proven the wrong way round! The road going up to the top left corner is Haxby-bound - and there are NO houses on the west side of the road (I originally thought the west side was built first)... and all these houses shown in the picture are the streets I have managed to recover Eleco lanterns from
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESOne worth a look:
The date of this image is not known, possibly 1950's, but this is when the Footstreet areas were being remodelled... and lighting columns have appeared, rather suprisingly sporting Revo Leicester post tops! The columns look like the Eleco columns still around today (but now on their 3rd generation of lanterns).... I believe the lanterns would have tungsten lamps in.
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New Street, city centre, in the early years of WW2 - and we have catenary lighting!
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESOuse Bridge:
floods of 1931
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGES1892 - and look at the massive gas lanterns
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESPossibly 1920's, with tram lines going over the bridge. The large building on the other side of the bridge is the Boyes department store
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGES1950's onward
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGEShttp://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGES1900 - with Carbon Arc lighting
http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGEShttp://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisi ... YORKIMAGESBlue Bridge used to have cannons either side of it!
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