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  • The ghosts of infrastructures past

    Somewhere along Brindcliff Edge Road in Sheffield, you can still see this wonderful infrastructural relic: That’s a sewer-gas destructor lamp, of which there are maybe a dozen or so remaining in the city, though only a very few of them are a) undamaged, and b) still lit. Destructor lamps took a tricky infrastructural problem (the way…