Long Rock from far away
By Mick House.
By Mick House.
Martin Scane
Roger Winnen
Dear Keith,
I note your comment about newly-installed electric light at Chacewater box in the early 1970s. I was a regular visitor to Chacewater box in the 1960s and I vividly remember the signalman's daily teatime ritual of lighting the Tilley lamp. We would then sit in semi-gloom accompanied by the gentle hissing of the lamp. In the days when the station was open, seven or eight of these had to be hoisted around the station. Scorrier, Carn Brea etc were the same.
The lamps were known as 'Challows' after the station near Swindon where they were devised and first used.
Chacewater box got electric light just before it closed!
How many of us could light and run a Tilley today?
Roy
Keith Jenkin
John Cornelius