How the lamp posts were decorated
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The Biggleston company supplied lamp posts for Canterbury for nearly 130 years before closure of the business in 1963. These supplied gas light to the city and then (after 1899) electric lighting. The following examples of surviving posts have been chosen to illustrate the main Biggleston features.
The most prominent feature of a 'Biggleston-style' post is the graceful 'swan neck' that holds the lamp. Here two examples have been selected from over 200 that survive. We are uncertain how many of these were made by the Biggleston company itself - since 1963 replacement lamps have been made by other foundries.
A small number of early posts bear the Biggleston name. The number of named posts falls year by year as old named posts are damaged and replaced by new posts of a similar style.
The posts themselves have undergone changes over the years. Some of our examples (the spiral and bundled reeds) are more fancy than any that followed - for some this raises doubts on whether they actually came from the Bigglestone works?