Have to love the way that closest pole clearly wasn't always the last one in the run and someone has just cut the cable off at that point, leaving the ends to just dangle there in the breeze. How long before one of those makes contact with the column I wonder?

Yeah - a bit gash!

Yeah, a very typical Glasgow street scene. I don’t think I’ve uploaded any of mine here yet. There’s still a fair few concretes and really old sodium lanterns from the 60s and 70s.

My understanding is that these lamp posts are actually old Tramline poles and at one time had top entry incandescent lanterns. I’ve seen this in old photos and there are still disused examples on one old street that’s half grown over with weeds.

So it's possible these columns are best part of a 100 years old then? Former tramline poles would explain the retention of overhead cables tho. Glasgow's streetlighting was certainly interesting. Love the group switching they still have up there!

Yeah it wouldnt surprise me. Glasgow also retained some level of gas lighting until the early 70s, although I gather this was mostly in the closes and hallways of tenements (source - old newspaper article on the google “microfiche”.)

. In all of the old documentation I’ve seen those tramline poles are all you see. In fact I reckon they predate the old CU and Stanton concretes on the likes of St Andrews drive, Herries Road and the Maxwell Park area. Proper old treasure trove of lighting is Glasgow, but I’ll tell you what I’ve never once found a mercury street lamp on the roads. They seem to have went from gas and incandescent (via the typical wartime style “bin lid” lanterns) straight to linear sodium. I say this because a lot of the sodium stock is so old that whatever it replaced must have been incandescent or earlier mercury, but even in old photos I’ve not found much in the way of mercury, even with the likes of alpha threes being fitted with SON, as I am told.