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Description: | A photograph of a painting by artist E. Noyes, of the market place on High Green (now Queen Square), looking towards High Street and Dudley Street in 1827. The tall column to the right was made of cast-iron and was forty feet high with a gas lantern at the top. It was erected to celebrate the installation of gas lighting in the town, by the Wolverhampton Gaslight Company in 1821. Nicknamed the "candlestick", it proved to be inefficient, but remained there until 1840, when it was finally removed. To the right is clearly a printing office. The premises of Davenhill the spirit merchants can be seen to the extreme left. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | The William Salt Library, Stafford. | Subjects: | Gas industry Photograph Public squares Photographs Buildings | Temporal: | [Late 20th cent] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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