The Gasman Cometh

TOUR GUIDE: Barbara English

Beverley Minster Highgate Porch, Minster Yard North, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU17 0DP

Gas lighting was astounding - walk through Beverley streets, the lamps are still there after nearly 200 years.

Gas street lighting came to Beverley in 1824 and for its inhabitants the world changed overnight from darkness to light, using one of the greatest inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

Join Barbara English for a walk across town to learn the story of some of our 40 surviving gas lamp posts, designed with a complex symbolism by John Malam. We think they are the oldest gas lamps still on the street anywhere in the world. The tour ends inside the famous White Horse Inn (Nellie’s), still gas-lit.