A pub named ‘The Lamplighter’ – honouring the vanished trade of the lamplighter, who lit the gas lamps and brought the evening glow
The Lamplighter holds one hundred and fifty-two reviews and a 4.2 – a solid score on a smaller sample – and it bears a lovely, evocative, nostalgic name: “The Lamplighter,” honouring the vanished old trade of the lamplighter, who once lit the gas lamps at dusk and brought the warm evening glow to the streets.
The smaller sample, noted
First, a fair note: one hundred and fifty-two reviews is a smaller sample, carrying more modest weight. A 4.2 across it is a solid, decent score, suggesting a good and well-liked pub, but we note the modest sample honestly, and turn to the lovely, evocative, nostalgic name.
The vanished trade
“The Lamplighter” honours one of the most evocative and nostalgic of all vanished old trades – the lamplighter, who, in the days of gas street lighting, went about the streets at dusk with his long pole, lighting the gas lamps one by one, and returned at dawn to extinguish them. It is a genuinely evocative and romantic image – the lamplighter making his rounds at dusk, lighting the lamps one by one, bringing the warm glow of light to the darkening streets, a familiar and welcome figure of the Victorian and Edwardian evening. It was a real and vital trade – for in the age of gas lighting, the lamps had to be lit and extinguished by hand, each and every one, and the lamplighters were the faithful workers who brought light to the streets each evening. It is a trade now entirely vanished (swept away by electric lighting) – but preserved, evocatively and nostalgically, in the lovely name. There is genuine nostalgia and romance in it – the vanished lamplighter, the warm evening glow, the faithful old trade.
The evening glow
“The Lamplighter” evokes, above all, the lovely warm glow of the old lamps – the beautiful, warm, welcoming light that the lamplighter brought to the darkening streets. There is a genuine warmth and romance to the image – the warm golden glow of the gas lamps, the pools of welcoming light in the dusk, the beautiful and atmospheric glow of the old lit streets. It is a deeply evocative and nostalgic image – the warm lamplight in the evening dusk, the golden glow, the beautiful atmosphere of the old lit streets, so different from the harsh electric light of today. And it makes a lovely emblem for the pub – for the pub, too, is a place of warm and welcoming light, a warm glow of welcome in the evening dusk. “The Lamplighter” carries this whole warm, glowing, welcoming character – the warm evening glow, the welcoming light, the beautiful nostalgic atmosphere. There is genuine warmth and romance in it – the warm lamplight, the welcoming glow, the beautiful vanished world of the old lit streets.
There is genuine warmth and nostalgia in the name – the vanished trade of the lamplighter, the warm evening glow, the beautiful old lit streets, the whole evocative and romantic vanished world. It is a lovely, evocative, nostalgic pub name, rich with warmth and romance. Whatever its smaller sample, the name is a genuinely lovely and evocative one. The Prat’s history desk salutes the vanished lamplighter making his rounds at dusk, admires the warm evening glow he brought, and raises a warm glass in the welcoming light.
The pub
A solid pub (on a smaller sample) doing a good 4.2, evocatively named “The Lamplighter” – honouring the vanished trade of the lamplighter, who lit the gas lamps and brought the warm evening glow.
Verdict
Solid on a smaller sample, and warmly nostalgic – the Lamplighter, evoking the vanished trade and the warm evening glow of the old lit streets.
Have a pint at the Lamplighter, and enjoy the evocative name – the vanished old trade of the lamplighter, who lit the gas lamps at dusk and brought the warm, welcoming evening glow to the streets.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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