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Real! The lights of gas streetlights are warm
It's last fall. When I went to Akashicho Kuminkan from Kachidokibashi in front of the Tsukijisaku, there was a person who was climbing the streetlight with a ladder. I thought it was an exchange of light bulbs. He said, "Do you want to replace it with an LED?", He replied, "It's a gas repair." I couldn't understand what I was saying for a moment. The parked car was Tokyo Gas car, and the chest mark of the jacket he was wearing was Tokyo Gas.
"Oh! Are you turning on gas? "When asked, "I'm in charge of checking at least two gas streetlights in Tokyo at my sales office."
In any case, the car came into contact with the gas streetlight and was notified that the light had disappeared.
When I asked a company that was entrusted with the management of Akashicho Kuminkan, who came to check the condition of the repair later, I was entrusted with management including gas streetlights, so the repair request was not the Chuo-ku government office, It was said that our company was in charge.
I was opening the glass in front and playing with the parts inside.
The old gas lit people would have opened the glass and lit the fire.
I was curious and looked at it.
It wasn't really a light bulb inside.
The core part is wrapped with cloth material attached. After confirming the gas coming out of trial and ignited with a lighter, the cloth burned up and black smoke rose.
I saw the gas lamps for the first time.
"I think the pillar itself is definitely from the early Meiji era. The parts that light up the lights through gas are already closed by the manufacturer, so they will not be available in the future and cannot be replaced or repaired. If it breaks down and cures, I think Tokyo Gas will make a new one. "
I'm a graduate of Akashi Elementary School. I remember that gas streetlights stood beside the entrance of the old school building while attending school. It was also located at the municipal second junior high school next to me. It's right now in front of Rehaport Akashi.
The photo shows the gas lamps on the outer corner of the current school building. It is left along with the brick wall remain, which was actually made of brick bricks in the foreign settlement.
In Meiji 7 (1874), 85 gas streetlights were lit from Shiba Kanesugibashi to Kyobashi. I read a thing that says that between Shiba Kanesugibashi and Shimbashi, at intervals of 45m, and from Shimbashi to Kyobashi are lined up at intervals of 27m.
I guess it was indispensable for foreign settlements. There are also two gas lamps in the Toysler Memorial Hall. It is reputed that gas lamps were also deployed in Shintomiza, which was nearby. There are two gas streetlight pillars in front of the company at Irifune 3-chome along with Akashi Elementary School.
There are two more gas streetlight pillars on the premises of Akashi Elementary School. It seems that the pillars are definitely from the past, but the lighting part has been restored to be turned on by electricity. One of them is lit by a power source stored by wind power installed on the rooftop.
This windmill has been in operation since around 2003. On the day I took this picture, there was wind and it rotated with considerable momentum.
On the evening of the day when I witnessed the repair, I went to Akashicho Kuminkan again.
There is a street light on the road on the side of St. Luke's Tower, right next to it. There is a dark shadow under the gas streetlight. The gas lamps are considered to be about 60W light bulbs. Eight years after gas streetlights were installed in the Meiji era, electric arc lights line up in Ginza. First, Tendo-sama, second to the moon, and third to Ginza's arc light, the gas streetlights disappeared under the lightness of the lit electricity.
It was also a cold night.
But looking at the lights of this gas streetlight, I feel relieved and warm.
Akashicho has the impression that it was a foreign settlement somewhere.
It is a wonderful city that makes you feel the historical scenery.