Gas Lit Houses

BBbevan you're right they did give out a beautiful soft light. A sort of brighter candlelit effect - it was very flattering to the skin. Maybe I should overcome my fear and have the electric light uninstalled, it might make my wrinkles less obvious !

My granny had gas lights in her cottage. You had to replace the gas mantle periodically, and it started off with a bright light when new but got progressively duller. Must have been awful to read by. Some pubs still have gas lights, more of a gimmick than necessity I assume. I can think of two.

I have not lived in a gas lit house, but I nearly brought one that still had it's gas lamps, plus some.( Not many) electric lights. It also had a well for drinking water.
Now I like the idea of a project, a house to update and put our own stamp on but . . .

This was in the 1980s by the way !

Our tenement close was lit by gas lighting.
I remember the old lady who lived on the ground floor had a black range, heated by anything she could find to burn in it.
Her walls had gas light fittings, that was 1959, when I was four.

My grandma had a gas lit house. I also remember gas lit caravans in the 50s. I loved the soft light and the gentle hiss.

The Rex cinema in Wareham, Dorset, had gas lighting, supplemented by electricity, until recently.

And ye, I remember caravan holidays and that 'pop' as the gas lamp was lit.

We viewed an old cottage when we were house-hunting in the late 1960s which still had gas lighting.