The Park Estate is a private residential housing estate to the west of Nottingham city centre, England. It is noted for its Victorian architecture, although many of the houses have been altered, extended or converted into flats. The estate uses gas street lighting, which is believed to be one of the largest networks in Europe.
The tunnel (known as The Park Tunnel) that extends from The Park Estate to the city centre stretch of Derby Road (A610).
St. Mary's Vicarage, the first domestic residence built in the Park Estate
Image: Gateway, Castle Grove, Nottingham (geograph 4117195)
Image: 16 Cavendish Crescent North
Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, coal gas or natural gas. The light is produced either directly by the flame, generally by using special mixes of illuminating gas to increase brightness, or indirectly with other components such as the gas mantle or the limelight, with the gas primarily functioning as a heat source for the incandescence of the gas mantle or lime.
Gas lighting in the historical center of Wrocław, Poland, is manually turned off and on daily.
An illustration of designs of lamplights, c. 1900
Passersby marvel at new gaslighting (London, 1809)
Commemoration of the first U.S. street gas light, at the intersection of North Holliday Street and East Baltimore Street in Baltimore
