Wow! Lovely glimpse into the past.

its like a time warp!

Wow, just wow! Wonder how old that broken lamp was?? Looks like it's been out of action for many decades, along with the cobbled 'ghost' road below. Bet that lamp was inserted long before any of us were born! It was quite nice seeing these columns around Glasgow with the SOX lanterns as mentioned during our 2015 holiday!

I conducted extensive research to try and find out what these lanterns were and didn't come up with anything concrete. One suggestion, assuming that they aren't a product of the G.E.C. or B.T.H. companies, is that they may have been made by Credenda, which later became Creda - a household name I'm sure we all know.

What I do know is the austere, wartime-style design cues date them possibly as far back as the early '30s, but I also know that Glasgow had some gas lighting right up util 1971, which is when the last gas lamp was snuffed out (source: old newspapers on Google's equivalent of the microfiche). The thing that really struck me is apart from the lanterns, the street lighting scene in many Glasgow streets is almost identical to how it was 50+ years ago, and I suspect a lot of it dates right back to electrification. The overhead wires and poles in places are very old and were cited as being, at the time, an advantage for easy repairs.

Nice to see this pop up on the randoms! For some reason the theme tune from Rab C. Nesbitt runs through my head looking at this!