
And now, from the "things that still exist despite their original purpose being lost to the past" file: the cross beams on lamp posts that we hang decorative banners from were for lamplighters to lean their ladders on. Image: George P. Lewis (1875–1926), "A female gas worker cleaning and lighting street lamps in Britain" from "The Employment of Women on the Home Front, 1914-1918". Collection of the Imperial War Museums, Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection (UK).
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