This time 120 years ago the residents of Launceston were enjoying the benefits of their new electric street lights and many were no doubt wondering whether to have their homes and businesses ‘wired up’ for this new power source. When the current from the new hydro-electric power station at Duck Reach was turned on for the first time in December 1895 it was described as a “triumph of public enterprise in street illumination” which “dwarfed into a sickly glimmer” the existing g