Cuckfield Urban District Council. Applications are invited for the post of lamplighter

Twenty Public Lamps, Wages 2s. per night.

Applications to be sent to the undersigned, on or before 17th inst. CH Waugh, Haywards Heath, Clerk to the Council.

9 September 1919, Mid Sussex Times

Photograph: Wikimedia public domain image. A man, standing on a ladder, carries out maintenance on a street lamp [street lamp] in the Boschstraat in Maastricht. In the background a busy market. Date unknown.

Contributed by Malcolm Davison.