sharkw Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Well Miss Poppins Age is a state of the mind and remember I've got there, you havn't yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest poppins Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Originally posted by sharkw Well Miss Poppins Age is a state of the mind and remember I've got there, you havn't yet Sharkw, I'm an oldie too, i was just kidding . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkw Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 sorry poppins getting fickle in my old age Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbiegrass Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I noticed one just tosay, on Foxhill road just a few roads above the service station, (where I was taking my car for the MOT) it looked like it still had the old gas workings inside, as some vandal has smashed one of the panes. Hope this adds another to your collection. (my car passed by the way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffexpat Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Seem to remember one on Frog Walk , near the wooden bridge that goes over the Porter. I'm sure I met Miss Poppins there once , about 1958? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxon51 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Always remember one at Bents Green near junction Ringinglow Road and Trap Lane in the late 50s. Watched a bloke light it once whilst waiting for a bus home from my gran's. That's when I learned what the bar across near the top was for. He used ladders did this bloke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuf_said Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 The lamps that are connected to the sewers run on ordinary town gas (not sewer gases / methane). They are usually at the high points in the sewer run, left on all the time and, because of the chimney effect, tend to draw air / smells from the sewers. They were installed because Sheffield's sewers were so poor that noxious gas used to collect very easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mega_monty Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by nuf_said The lamps that are connected to the sewers run on ordinary town gas (not sewer gases / methane). That doesn't make sense, why would you pump town gas down a sewer ? Sewer gas lamp destructors burnt off noxious gases like methane, the lighting of the streets was just an ancillary benefit from the process. Town gas Lamps ran on just Town gas (derived from coal at coking plants) which was piped to the lamps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuf_said Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by mega_monty That doesn't make sense, why would you pump town gas down a sewer ? Sewer gas lamp destructors burnt off noxious gases like methane, the lighting of the streets was just an ancillary benefit from the process. Town gas Lamps ran on just Town gas (derived from coal at coking plants) which was piped to the lamps. Sorry if I wasn't clear. No you don't pump gas down the sewer. The gas lamp works off the normal town gas main like all the others - but it has a connection down into the sewer down through the coolumn - usually the base of that lamp post is fatter than normal. The flame draws up air from below (chimney effect) and this air is being drawn up from the sewer thereby creating an air movement in the sewer and venting it. There isn't enough calorific value in the 'methane' / stink in the sewer to light the lamp itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie1957 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 There is one on School Road Crookes just after the juction with Glebe Road. Big green thing that burnt off methane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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