Photo-a-Day  (Monday, 20th March, 2017)

Nice photo Ron. He would need an extra long pole for that lamp.

He'll Be dead Ron.

He's probably got another job at the hall ... Keeping the home fires burning - well there's plenty logs to be had after Doris blew in!
Nice picture Ron - you must know every inch of the grounds by now.

I remember a lamplighter...he came through Holland Moor on his push bike. He never got off the bike while he lit the lamp, which was similar to the one in the photo, with the long pole he carried ...it was on the corner of Back Lane by the old school.

Nice quiet photo.

Lovely photo once again, thankyou Ron were abouts is the lamp situated?

Lovely photo once again, thankyou Ron were abouts is the lamp situated?

I remember the lamplighter in Ince Green Lane when I was very small. He rode a bike and carried a long pole to light the lamps with. They were very low compared to the tall lamps of today and shed a homely yellowish light.
"He made the night a little brighter
Wherever he would go,
The Old Lamplighter
Of long, long ago."

The bar for his ladder was great for swinging on,no Elf & Safety then.

Julie, They are all the way on the new road .From the Hall to Mopin lodge .The way in for the Hotel.

Good photo as usual Ron, it was good to meet you the other day.

I love the lamp, one of the great things about towns and cities that have maintained their historical areas, a bit like the narrow alleys around Wigan town centre - such character

Helen, I remember the Holland Moor lamp lighter too! there was a lamp at the front of our next-door-but-one neighbour's house. I remember how it seemed so very bright when it was lit after the blackout years of the war.
....and I was all of 6 or 7 years old!

The stars looked a lot closer when we had the small lamps.....like they do when you are in the countryside in the pitch-dark. The higher and brighter the street-lamps, the further away the stars seem. I think the modern lighting provides a safer journey for people walking through the dark, but I feel we have lost something too.

How right you are,Irene. We moved into the country last year, and although we had been living in a small town before I had forgotten how very dark it is without street lights. For the first few weeks, I had to take a flashlight with me when I walked my dog at night, until I was familiar with the terrain! The sky at night is really quite bright, even when there is no moon.