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Description: | A reproduction of an illustration of the market place on High Green (now Queen Square) in the 1830s. The tall column to the left 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. The premises of Davenhill the spirit merchant can be seen to the extreme right. | 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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