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Billy, when I was a little girl in Ince, the "gas-lamps" as we called them were much shorter than they are now. A man used to come round on a bike and light them with a long pole, and somehow the stars DID seem much nearer. As we progressed to taller lamp-posts and more modern and brighter methods of lighting,the stars seemed to go further away. A shame really, those old lamps were softer and created shadows and a cosy homeliness. We progressed in technology but we lost something along the way.