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Description: | A photograph of an illustration of the market place on High Green (now Queen Square) around 1821. The image shows a clear view of one of the entrances to St. Peter's Collegiate Church in Lich Gates. 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. The premises of G. Cope the importers can also be clearly seen to the left of Lich Gates. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Gas industry Photograph Photographs Buildings Streets | Temporal: | [Late 20th cent] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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