VEB NARVA LEIPZIG GDR (Manufactured 1960s - 70s) When I came to Leipzig in 2002 there were still many of the huge fibreglass street lamps in use in the city which were produced in the 1960s. On a cold damp foggy night the street scene reminded me of East Germany during the cold war - giving me a sense of the sinister and foreboding. Years later I met Herr Müller in Büschingstr Berlin where I was living. He along with a colleague was busy removing the lamps on our street and replacing them with the modern LED lamps. We were talking for a while about their work and I was asking what happens to the old lamps that are no longer in use. He said: Müll. Rubbish. Later he invited me to come out to his place the following Saturday. He would collect me at the railway station. So I got the train to Bernau a town circa 30 minutes north of Berlin, where he was waiting. We drove for about twenty minutes out into the countryside until we came to a small village, where we went...