[Bonnyboy]

Not being from around Accrington all my life, I wondered when the council changed over from Gas street lighting to electric. I ask because my grandfather used to be a lamplighter in Dundee, my home town. On many occasions he would take me with him, along with his old collie dog, on his round of an evening. Thing is, this was in the mid to late 60's, I'd be about 5 or 6 years old. Anyone I've talked to on the subject of a similar age to myself rekon they have never seen proper old gas lights on the streets.