http://www.worldofbadger.co.uk/2008/06/05/farting-sewer-lamp/ Just what the world needs, another blog by a web designer Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.worldofbadger.co.uk/2008/06/05/farting-sewer-lamp/comment-page-1/#comment-4283 Wilf Jessop Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:47:29 +0000 http://www.worldofbadger.co.uk/?p=598#comment-4283 As Nik Morton points out, the lamps were never actually powered by the sewer gas. The lamps were fed by the ordinary town gas supply and worked by creating an intense heat within the hood which drew the air from the sewers below and burned off any impurities. Sheffield had 84 of these lamps, erected between 1914 and 1935. At the last count 22 still remain, of which 3 are kept lit. As Nik Morton points out, the lamps were never actually powered by the sewer gas. The lamps were fed by the ordinary town gas supply and worked by creating an intense heat within the hood which drew the air from the sewers below and burned off any impurities. Sheffield had 84 of these lamps, erected between 1914 and 1935. At the last count 22 still remain, of which 3 are kept lit.

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