Following their success painting lamp posts, the Sydney Buildings Householders Association are launching a project to restore the historic lantens on the street.

Sadly, one of the organisers of the earlier volunteering project died while on holiday recently. In his memory, the SBHA have decided to restore the 1830 Stothert & Pitt lantern on Sydney Buidings by the canal footpath. This lamp post, Number 6, is listed, as the oldest in Bathwick. A suitable historic replacement lantern has been sourced and money is being raised by the association to buy it. Local councillor Nicholas Coombes has agreed to contribute a sum from his devolved funding for the project.

B&NES Council have supported this and previous projects and will be installing and electrifying the lantern appropriately. The streetlighting department have also agreed to install victorian style lanterns to the other eleven lamp posts recently painted.

This is an excellent example of volunteers working with the council for the good of their neighbourhood.