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Sewer Gas Lamp

Brantwood Avenue, Monkseaton, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear

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Overview

One of ten surviving Sewer gas lamp standards erected in the Whitley Bay and Monkseaton areas between 1900 and 1910. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405387
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-2012
List Entry Name:: Sewer Gas Lamp
Statutory Address:: Brantwood Avenue, Monkseaton, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405387
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-2012
List Entry Name:: Sewer Gas Lamp
Statutory Address 1:: Brantwood Avenue, Monkseaton, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Brantwood Avenue, Monkseaton, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ3398772088

Summary

One of ten surviving Sewer gas lamp standards erected in the Whitley Bay and Monkseaton areas between 1900 and 1910.

Reasons for Designation

This C20 sewer gas lamp is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Rarity: although gas lamps were once common features of our street scenes they are increasingly rare and those combined with sewer vents are rarer still. * Intactness: this is an intact example with a complete glass lantern. * Design quality: not withstanding its humble nature, this is an attractive gas standard with a fluted cast-iron base and ornamental brackets. * Group value: this is one of a small group of ten intact sewer gas lamps in the Monkseaton and Whitley Bay area. * Technological: it illustrates a technology, which once transformed everyday existence, and its contribution to the public realm was considerable.

History

This lamp is one of 17 Sewer Gas Lamps erected in the Whitley Bay and Monkseaton areas between 1900 and 1910 of which 10 survive. The following description of their purpose and design is taken from "The History of Monkseaton Village’ by Local Historian Charlie Steel.

"In the 1890s, Joseph Edmund Webb, a builder from Birmingham, invented and patented his sewer gas destructor lamp, and later formed the Webb Engineering Company. Within ten years of their introduction, these lamps were found all over England and in many other parts of the world. Old sewers were often badly laid out and poorly vented, so there was always a danger of disease (or even explosion) from methane and fetid stagnant gases, which could build up in the system. The lamps, which were connected to the ordinary town gas supply, were installed at high points in the system and were coupled directly to the underground sewer. They were usually lit by three mantles, which were rarely extinguished. The burning mantles created an intense heat within the hood, leading to an updraught, which drew air from the sewer through a copper tube inside the column; the sewer gas was therefore harmlessly burned off, thus converting the methane into Carbon Dioxide before being released into the atmosphere. One lamp was capable of venting an area of up to three quarters of a mile of sewer’.

Details

Sewer gas lamp, early C20.

The standard is of fluted cast iron with a curved glass lantern; the lantern is supported by four ornamental brackets and it has a high valve to the domed canopy; there is a ladder rest at the top, which also supports the hinged top of the hood when open for cleaning or maintenance. The lamp has a cast-iron base plate reading: 'J.E.WEBBS PATENT SEWER GAS DESTRUCTOR' and 'WEBB LAMP Co. LIMITED BIRMINGHAM'. The lantern head bears the name 'SUGG'.

Sources

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The History of Monkseaton Village, accessed from http://www.monkseaton.info/features_curios.html#sewer

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.