London By Gaslight: A Walking Tour of the City's Oldest Street Lamps

Gas street lighting was first demonstrated in London in 1807, on Pall Mall. More than two centuries on, around 1,300 of those original lamps are still burning, tended by a small team of lamplighters who wind the mechanisms, polish the glass, and replace the mantles on a fortnightly rotation.
London by Gaslight explores them on foot, across six walks through central London: Pall Mall and St James's, Westminster, Covent Garden, the ancient Inns of Court, Hyde Park and Kensington, and the swee...