SocketRocket
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A picture of our Gas lights in Malvern today. We still have quite a lot of them.
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Gas Lights
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Foxholer
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Are they really 'Gas' lights? Or simply 'old style' ones - like we had in the garden once.
There certainly appears to be a bulb in that nearest one.
There certainly appears to be a bulb in that nearest one.
SocketRocket
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They are gas lights and have a mechanism to turn them on and off. We have a lot of them around the town.
we have real flame lights round our town
SocketRocket
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Do you have a picture?
when I say round the town, its only a couple but they stand out as its real flame (well probably gas). Think I'm near a pub there this weekend and I'll take a snap if I remember (and not sozzled)
p.s I would change your sig quote from (a few good men, great movie) before the mods jump on you
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matt611
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This was in the news a couple of weeks ago. In London there are 1500 gas lights which are maintained by 4 guys employed by British Gas.
SocketRocket
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C.S. Lewis lived in Malvern and it is believed he had the inspiration for the gas lamp post for the one in 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" from one in this picture.
Foxholer
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He went to school there for a couple of years.
I think Belfast, the place of his birth and family home has a bigger/better claim to most of his inspiration - including that lamp post. Great stories though. I can still remember 1 particular teacher (also Irish and who went through a similar religious 'experience') reading them at Primary School!
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SocketRocket
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He came here twice. Once for his health as Malvern was a health spa town, he later went to school at Malvern Boys College.
Foxholer
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Seems anyone and everyone is making claims.
From a Belfast Lewis Tour....
"Jack and his brother were packed off to boarding school a month after his mother's death which was not a good idea, given that the school they went to was presided over by a headmaster later declared insane, at which point the school closed. So for a short while afterwards, Lewis attended Campbell College. We bussed up the drive, noting a rather fine old-fashioned lamppost half way down. This has to be the origin of the lamp-post Lucy sees when she moves beyond the wardrobe and into the eternal winter of Narnia. One newspaper claimed a lamp-post in the Italian town of Narni as the inspiration, but Lewis never visited Italy and this one looked exactly like the illustration in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
and from a discovernorthernireland site...
Gas lamp-posts in the middle of Crawfordsburn
Country Park and the grounds of Campbell College
may have inspired the Narnian Lamp-post.
That teacher I mentioned, not unreasonably, pushed the Belfast childhood images, including Little Lea, as the major influences.
Edit: Here's the 'couple of years in Malvern' described.....Following his Bio brings back memories of first pens and school desks with inkwells!
1911
Lewis was sent to Malvern, England, which was famous as a health resort, especially for those with lung problems. Lewis was enrolled as a student at Cherbourg House (which he referred to as “Chartresâ€), a prep school close by Malvern College where Warnie was enrolled as a student. Jack remained there until June 1913. It was during this time that he abandoned his childhood Christian faith. He entered Malvern College itself (which he dubbed “Wyvernâ€) in September 1913 and stayed until the following June.
From a Belfast Lewis Tour....
"Jack and his brother were packed off to boarding school a month after his mother's death which was not a good idea, given that the school they went to was presided over by a headmaster later declared insane, at which point the school closed. So for a short while afterwards, Lewis attended Campbell College. We bussed up the drive, noting a rather fine old-fashioned lamppost half way down. This has to be the origin of the lamp-post Lucy sees when she moves beyond the wardrobe and into the eternal winter of Narnia. One newspaper claimed a lamp-post in the Italian town of Narni as the inspiration, but Lewis never visited Italy and this one looked exactly like the illustration in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
and from a discovernorthernireland site...
Gas lamp-posts in the middle of Crawfordsburn
Country Park and the grounds of Campbell College
may have inspired the Narnian Lamp-post.
That teacher I mentioned, not unreasonably, pushed the Belfast childhood images, including Little Lea, as the major influences.
Edit: Here's the 'couple of years in Malvern' described.....Following his Bio brings back memories of first pens and school desks with inkwells!
1911
Lewis was sent to Malvern, England, which was famous as a health resort, especially for those with lung problems. Lewis was enrolled as a student at Cherbourg House (which he referred to as “Chartresâ€), a prep school close by Malvern College where Warnie was enrolled as a student. Jack remained there until June 1913. It was during this time that he abandoned his childhood Christian faith. He entered Malvern College itself (which he dubbed “Wyvernâ€) in September 1913 and stayed until the following June.
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SocketRocket
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Probably best to leave it at that then! It was only meant to be a nice photo!
Foxholer
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As indeed it was! :clap:
Give it a week or 3 and a dusting of the the snow from up North and it'll be Xmas card material! :thup:
