A 115-year-old lamp post!
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A 115-year-old lamp post!
Image: © Robert Lamb Taken: 4 May 2014
Next to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry on Whitechapel Road stands this lamp post from 1899, one of the earliest electric lamp posts in East London. Originally it would have run on Direct Current but has now been adapted to use Alternating Current. Looking south-southeast.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.516937
Longitude
-0.067143