Well in attempt not to be boring but informative did you know.
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- There are just 1,500 gas lamps left in London, each one hand-lit by a member of a five man team every evening
- The 19th-century lamps offer a glimpse of the city as it would have been during the time of Charles Dickens
- Current team of London lamplighters are actually British Gas engineers - but their efforts go largely unsung
- That the gas lamps have survived is partly a tribute to English Heritage, which has protected and restored them
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