STREET LIGHTING BY

ELECTRICITY

The first public street lighting by electricity, Godalming in Surrey, 1881

“The Brilliant Ray,” Francis Haveron, 1981 (CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

A Newcastle Street lit by Swan Lamps

“Electric lamps -100 years on,” Cyril Phillips (CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

Three men and a boy cleaning street light globes, USA, June 1919

From “Illuminating Engineering,” 50th

Anniversary Issue,

January 1956, USA

(CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

“Lilliput Avenue,” scale model used to test street lighting techniques

With designer and builder E F Lumber, Nela School of Lighting, USA

From Street Lighting Practice,” Harrison, Haas & Reid, 1930

(CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, California, 1920’s

Piccadilly Circus, London in 1949

Lighting of road junctions outside Orly Airport, near Paris, 1962

Planning street lighting systems

From “IPLE Lighting Journal,” Diamond Jubilee edition, 1984

Institution of Public Lighting Engineers, Rugby

(CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

M25 Motorway lighting maintenance 1984