Annotation:Gas Lights

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 GAS LIGHTS. English, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Gas lights in London were first publicly lit in Pall Mall, on January 28th, 1807, although it took some time for the rest of the city to be fitted with the fixtures. By 1823 most of the cities in Britain had gas lighting.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Goulding (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1808), 1808; No. 22.  Recorded sources:

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