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are used on the sea front, and Brockie Poll 7.ampere in the
streets, the globes being graduated opal, denser at top than
bottom. The continuous current is used. The lamps are
placed 50 yards apart. Labour and carbons are charged to the
Corporation by the Electricity Department at actual cost.
Current is charged at the same rate as private lighting, i.e., 7d.
per unit for first, hour per day, and 3d. per unit afterwards. The
average price per unit charged for street lighting works out
about 8'4d. The capital expenditure for columns, lamps, &c.,
was paid out of the District Fund Account, the Electricity
Department bearing the cost of the mains. The approximate
cost of providing and fixing each column and lamp is £60. The
columns are of a very ornamental pattern, and surmounted by a
canopy, there by giving a handsome appearance to the lamps.
Islington Public Street Lighting. The Islington Vestry is
probably the latest local authority which has undertaken its own
electricity supply and is lighting some of its main thoroughfares.
There are at present 98 lamps running in Upper Street, Holloway
Road and Seven Sisters Road, all being at the side of the
streets, with the exception of seven on refuges. The lamps are
20 foot from the ground to the centre of the arc. CromptonPochin
12-ampere single carbon lamps are used, with oval globes,
which are to be replaced shortly by spherical globes. The lamps
are about 00 yards apart on alternate sides of the streets. The
Electricity Department charge the Vestry 5d. per unit, or about
£45 per lamp per annum, such price covering all expenditure
for mains, columns, &c. The providing and fixing each column
and lamp cost about £30. The alternating current is used,
transformed for street lighting purposes by means of rectifiers
into a pulsating current continuous in direction.
Local experiments for the purpose of ascertaining the actual
advantages of the electric light and the most suitable height and
description of the proposed lamps have also been carried out. As
mentioned in the Report of the Works Committee to the Vestry
of the 8th January last, two arc lamps of different heights were
put up in Regent Street, by Vigo Street and Swallow Street, for
the purpose of ascertaining the effect of centre lighting in the
thoroughfare in question. These lamps, which were fixed on the
6th December, 1895, were exchanged for more perfect lamps on