Hazeldene Avenue Streetlights

Hazeldene Avenue was (and still is) the main access road to Kenton Bar Estate. When I lived there the streetlights on this road were of a different design to those lights around the estate. They also cast an orange light rather than the white light cast by the inner lights on the estate. Unfortunatly the orange road lights of Hazeldene Avenue had a design flaw...hooligans and ruffians(probably from Gunnerstone/Dunnykirk/Eland) discovered that if, during the lovely flip dark chill winters we used to have, you made a snowball and threw it at the orange plastic case of these lights and scored a direct hit the plastic case would immediately come off at one end, hanging open and leaving the bulb naked and vunerable to attack from a second snowball, which would smash the bulb rendering the light useless and off not on. Once these horrible scoundrels found this out they proceeded to smash all the orange lights on Hazeldene Avenue with snowballs plunging the road into utter darkness. How do I know this? Because I was a cubscout as I have mentioned previously and was often doing traffic surveys to get a badge...I remember having to go home in tears as it was to dark and dangerous after what those beastly bounders had done...I never got that badge :(

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