London has the lamp post boast of being the first city to demonstrate public street lighting with gas on the 28 January 1807 in Pall Mall, with lamps stretching from St James's to Cockspur Street.

Bell describes what this area would have looked like before the lamps arrived. Sponsor Message "The streets would've been pitch-black ... When street lights arrived, nightlife in London transformed.

Intrigued tourists watch as Paul Doy climbs a ladder outside London's Westminster Abbey and lifts the globe of a gas street lamp. Winding its timer, he then ignites a small cloth mesh, creating a ...

This unassuming lamp on Carting Lane—cheekily nicknamed Farting Lane by some—is no ordinary light source. It is the last of its kind in London ... into the lamp above street level, where ...

between Bridge Street and Great George Street in London, two arms stretching up during the day, a gas lamp glowing like a gaping maw at night. Built by engineers, designed by a railway manager ...

London has more than 1,000 gas street lamps, which were installed at the beginning of the 19th century. At the time, they were considered a major innovation in a city with dark, dirty and often ...