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%u2022 Issue 108 %u2022 September 2021 %u2022Historic Gas Timespage8page8TheHISTORIC GAS TIMESPublished quarterlyEditors: John Britland Horne and Russell ThomasAnnual Subscription UK: %u00a38.00 | Overseas: %u00a315.00 | Via email: %u00a36.00 Cheques payable to: IGEM History FundHGT Subscriptions, IGEM House26 & 28 High Street, Kegworth, Derbyshire DE74 2DASubscription enquiries: +44(0) 1509 678 150 or visit www.igem.org.uk/HGT IGEM members can subscribe alongside their membershipFollowing our recent request for feedback and articles our readers have duly responded. One of our readers, Phillip Tordoff has contributed the enclosed picture, which was taken within a half mile of his home, nearly sixty years ago. This was a former Spenborough Urban District Council lamp situated on Hare Park Lane, Hightown, Liversedge, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The lamp had a dual purpose, as it also served as a bus stop.It%u2019s unusual design came about because double deck buses started using this road, which had a definite camber within the vicinity of the bus stop. This meant that whever the bus pulled up at the stop, there was a danger of damage to either the lamp, or the bus, or both. Such mountings were rare in Yorkshire, but I feel that Heath Robinson would have been proud of the effort!Philip TordoffThe Editors thank Philip Tordoff for his contribution and would like to make readers aware that his Book %u2018When the Streets were lit with Gas%u2019, in which the photograph can be found, can still be purchased online, through retailers such as amazon or specialist book websites such as abebooks.