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Reports of the Lighting Committee

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Unique IDAS-0024Start date8th May 1857End date17th November 1892FormatVolume - Leather BoundDescriptionThis series contains reports presented by the Lighting Committee to meetings of Council. Lighting Committee reports prior to 1857, and after 1892, are contained in CRS 21, Committee Reports, 1842-1899, and also in CRS 30, Printed Materials.

The volumes are indexed at the front of the volume by the subject of the report. Each report was numbered and any associated reports from Council officers and correspondence was attached to the report. This includes correspondence that was registered as part of CRS 26, Letters Received, but was then removed from CRS 26 and placed with the relevant Committee reports. Some of the reports contain linen plans.

The majority of reports from Council officers in this series are reports from the City Surveyor on the necessity for gas lamps in various streets of the City, and occasionally for their removal. Most of correspondence was in the form of petitions from residents and ratepayers. One of the first reports from 1857 related to the erection of gas lamps along the "Lovers Walk" through Hyde Park. The ratepayers of Market St West petitioned Council for better lighting in 1871 as "Before midnight the lights of the Public Houses are lowered down and the shops being shut the place is in almost total darkness. A number of low disorderly characters gather about the doorsteps and disgusting nuisances are continually committed". (CRS 24/6, Report 16/1871). The City Surveyor Thomas Bradridge responded that lamps "are very necessary in this part of Market Street". The next year the residents of Arthur Street in Surry Hills petitioned for a lamp as "the street being of considerable length, without a light, and having an open sewer running through it, we consider it necessary to make such a request". (CRS 24/7).

Around 1887 pedestrian refuges began to be incorporated as part of the lamps at busy interesections. Report number 1 for 1887 contains a hand coloured drawing of a lamp and refuge. In April 1888, the Committee recommended that the lamps on these refuges be lighted every night all year round. (CRS 24/14, report 3 of 1888).

From December 1886, the Colonial Government decided to stop paying for the lighting of lamps near its buildings as it was charged rates. The reports contain a list of the lamps to be removed, some of which the Council retained and assumed the cost of paying for the gas. (CRS 24/14, report 2 of 1887).

In September 1887 the City Surveyor recommended that a better system of lighting was required in the streets around the parks, especially Prince Alfred Park and Belmore Gardens. He suggested circular bracket lamps and his report contains a small sketch of the proposed design. (CRS 24/14, Report 6 of 1887).

In 1890, a plea was received for lighting at the Cattle Sale Yards in Homebush as cattle were arriving at all hours of the day and night and were being processed by lantern light. (CRS 24/15, Report 2 of 1890).
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Start Date: 01/07/1857
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End Date: 17/11/1892Relationship legacy dataCONTROLLED BY: Registers of Letters Received AS-0002 (1/7/1857 to 17/11/1892) CREATED BY: Lighting Committee AG-0115 (01/07/1857 to 17/11/1892) PRECEDED BY: Committee Reports AS-0021 (01/07/1857) PRECEDED BY: Printed Materials AS-0030 (01/07/1857) RELATED TO: Letters Received AS-0026 (1/7/1857 to 17/11/1892) RELATED TO: Meetings of Council and Committees AY-60 (01/07/1857 to 17/11/1892) RELATED TO: Provision of street lighting AY-25 (01/07/1857 to 17/11/1892) LanguageEnglish (eng)

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Report of the Lighting Committee: Memo from Richard W Richards recommending instruction be given to

Report of the Lighting Committee: Memo from James Dowe for City Surveyor recommending instruction

Report of the Lighting Committee: Memo from Richard W Richards recommending instruction be given to

Report of the Lighting Committee recommending the erection of lamps in the following locations:

Report of the Lighting Committee: Memo from Richard W Richards recommending instruction be given to

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Reports - Lighting Committee - CSA044389

Reports - Lighting Committee - CSA044388

Reports - Lighting Committee - CSA044387

Reports - Lighting Committee - CSA044386

Reports - Lighting Committee - CSA044385

Reports - Lighting Committee - CSA044384

Reports - Lighting Committee - CSA044383

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Reports of the Improvement Committee

Minutes of the Lighting Committee

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Legacy dataRegistered by: Gunnel Bellviken
Registered date: 24/10/1985
Amendments: Angela McGing 26 April 1995
Mark Stevens 9 Oct 2001
Angela McGing 12 Oct 2005
Last amendment date: 12/10/2005
Other Disposal Instruments: GDA 10 for Local Government Records
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Source systemBusiness operation system (BOS); Archives investigatorControlled by seriesRegisters of Letters ReceivedPreceding seriesCommittee ReportsPrinted MaterialsRelated seriesLetters ReceivedCreating agenciesLighting CommitteeRelated activitiesProvision of street lightingMeetings of Council and Committees

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