Comments on: Cigarette lighters made from York Minster fragments, 1970s http://yorkstories.co.uk/cigarette-lighters-from-minster-fragments-1970s/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: YorkStories http://yorkstories.co.uk/cigarette-lighters-from-minster-fragments-1970s/#comment-536975 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:57:30 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=3353#comment-536975 Indeed might have been dangerous attempting to pick up and use the stone-based lighter after a few glasses of Blue Nun.

]]> By: Beverley http://yorkstories.co.uk/cigarette-lighters-from-minster-fragments-1970s/#comment-535399 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:51:26 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=3353#comment-535399 Ooh I’d love a Minster lighter to go with my lamp bases that were made from medieval wood from Lincoln Cathedral c. 2006. Although, imagine if you dropped it, you could kill someone.

]]> By: kelly http://yorkstories.co.uk/cigarette-lighters-from-minster-fragments-1970s/#comment-525491 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:18:31 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=3353#comment-525491 Ohhh I would love one of those lampshades! I’ll leave the stone accessories though!

]]> By: YorkStories http://yorkstories.co.uk/cigarette-lighters-from-minster-fragments-1970s/#comment-42194 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:04:58 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=3353#comment-42194 Please don’t throw away the 1970s nicotine-stained lampshade! So nice to know one of these is still around.

I’m emailing you and hoping for photos …

]]> By: Mark http://yorkstories.co.uk/cigarette-lighters-from-minster-fragments-1970s/#comment-41780 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:09:34 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=3353#comment-41780 I have a york minster stone lamp base. I remember it being in the family lounge for years. My mother recently passed away and I have inherited it. A good old solid lump of stone. The shade is sadly beyond keeping, very stained with 1970’s nicotine. I would be interested if anyone knows where i can get a replacement.

]]> By: Ralph http://yorkstories.co.uk/cigarette-lighters-from-minster-fragments-1970s/#comment-12150 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:32:07 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=3353#comment-12150 A very nice find: real history indeed. Perhaps we’ll be able to buy attractive fragments of Stonebow House pebbledashed concrete made into lamps and calendars soon, “with up to 46 years attractive weathering”.

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