Just A Salford Lad - Salford had the world's first street lights. For most of history, at the end of each day, our ancestors lived in a very dim and dark world.
See Newcastle on X: "Mosley Street in 1879 was the first street in the world to be lit by electricity. https://t.co/R8jkSew1I5" / X
![From the emergence of urban lighting to a new culture of consumption: department stores and the public life of women- Nina Margies - The Urban Transcripts Journal From the emergence of urban lighting to a new culture of consumption: department stores and the public life of women- Nina Margies - The Urban Transcripts Journal](https://journal.urbantranscripts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/yablochkov_candles_illuminating_avenue_de_lopera_ca1878.jpg)