With all the soup throwing, milk pouring and road blocking that’s been going on in the capital lately, you may have missed the actions of one slightly less bombastic protest movement. Namely: the fight to save gas lighting.
No, not the self-doubt-sowing form of psychological manipulation favoured by Donald Trump and your most toxic ex — but rather actual gas-fuelled lights. Once a staple of Victorian London, romanticised in novels by Charles Dickens, there are now just 275 functioning gas streetlamps left in Westminster, many dating as far back as the 1890s. If this is very much news to you, then don’t worry, you’re not alone.
