Link extinguishers outside a house
In Victorian times well-to-do householders would hire a link boy - a boy or young man who carried a flaming torch called a link - to light the way for the traveller. Link extinguishers were installed outside their front doors for their servants to snuff out their torches once they had reached home
Picture No
13136793
Media ID
45387704
Size
4022px x 5433px
(5.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection
Source
From Old and New London by Walter Thornbury
Date
1875
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