Following on from previous comments here is the "workies lamp" of our youth compared with it's hi-tec counterpart of these days.
No real comparison. Stingy eyes and black reek and just enough light to read an H&E, wrestling mag or horror comic.
These things were freely available in the area around the High Wall. Cheap and efficient with a handy hanging hook.
Just the job for a poorly ventilated gangie strewn with old bits of paper. They are known as "paraffin hazard lamps" Don't know why, they seemed perfectly safe to us.
Try lighting a cinnamon stick with one of the new fangled ones. I rest my case.
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Nice to see that there are still men out there that remember the workies lamp. It was sometime a problem explaining to ones mother that one had not been involved in a HAZMAT incident or an inferno. It was the smell you see and the red rimmed eyes. to the question of "Have you been playing with fire?" no lie was necessary because we were not PLAYING with it just using it for our needs!
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