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"A fine example of a hexagonal gas lantern, at the corner of Hills Road and Station Road, with the Roman Catholic church visible in the distance. This shows the 4 foot gauge horse tram tracks which would have been removed after the service closed in 1914 so I think the "1927" at the bottom is a serial number, not a date." - Peter

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"Another large size lantern, this time in Chesterton" - Peter

www.cromwellcollection.org.uk/cgi-bin/cambscoll/history.pl?id=51;action=display

"A picture of Regent Street in the 1900s; again the tram tracks are visible. The lamp on the right is interesting - evidently those sweeping wall brackets weren't unique to Rose Crescent." - Peter

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"This is one of a series of pictures held by the National Tramway Museum which show fairly conventional gas lanterns in the years up to 1914. Thos picture shows a special lantern mounted on top of a tram shelter outside the Roman Catholic church at the north end of Hills Road." - Peter

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"Gas lighting in Market Hill, with Great St Mary's in the background. Apparently this postcard is dated 1928 but as the lamp in the foreground appears to have old style burners rather than mantles I think it's probably a pre-1914 view." - Peter

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"Dated 1931: shows St Andrew Street with a conventional Windsor lantern. No sign of the big Sugg Rochesters in this, or a view of Petty Cury so they must have been installed later." - Peter

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"Dated 1931; Hills Road - Station Road Junction with a prominent view of a Sugg Southport lantern. Evidently the Windsor lamps were already regarded as inadequate for such a busy road." - Peter

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"Dated 1938; shows one of the post mounted Sugg Rochesters on Market Hill. These disappeared before my time as they had been replaced by the four REVO Leicesters, one at each corner of the market place, by the early 1950s." - Peter

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"Trumpington Street circa 1955 during the experiment with different types of lighting - you've already found this picture but the version here doesn't have a crease down the middle."

"What I still don't have is a really good view of one of the big Sugg lamps, which ought to be a major part of the story. I am still looking. I have narrowed down their installation to the mid/late 1930s and their disappearance (except for the recycled columns) to the years 1955-1965. About a year ago I found a useful but rather blurred picture of one in a book about Cambridge in the 20th century, but I didn't feel able to justify buying the whole book for one not particularly good photo!" - Peter

There is a particularly interesting picture of the cross roads at the bottom of Castle Hill which can be found in the waiting room of Cambridge Registation Office at Shire Hall. This shows the large Sugg Rochester lantern which stands outside the Folk Museum; the column is still there, converted to electricity, and now sporting an upwardly sloping bracket and 90W SOX lantern (a Davis GR100 which has replaced the older AEI Amber.) Amazing to see the column still there.