#Lights Glasgow Scotland

[fallenforfallon]

Lights, Glasgow, Scotland

#Lights Glasgow Scotland

[miles-xanthous]

Lights, Glasgow, Scotland

#Lights Glasgow Scotland

[aboutsignos]

Lights, Glasgow, Scotland

#Lights Glasgow Scotland

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: ichmiles

#edinburgh #glasgow #scotland #united kingdom #uk #palermo #italy #porto #portugal #travelling #travel #beige tones #beige aesthetic #beige #architecture #beautiful village #villages #interiors #dark academia #light academia

[scholarofgloom]

#Glasgow #Scotland #rain #photography #Max Van Den Oetelaar #traffic lights

[qlqniel]

To sit and contemplate incoming rain

Galsgow, August 2017

#photgraphers on tumblr #original photographers #photography #urban photography #architecture photography #scotland #glasgow #clouds #rain clouds #summer light #bench #contemplative #architecture

[hiyutekivigil]

exams over, i wish i felt some relief

#hiyutekivigil #personal #studyspo #studyblr #academia #academia aesthetic #university #glasgow #scotland #dark academia #light academia

[mightywellfan]

Christmas in Glasgow

George Square Christmas lights display, 1963

#scotland #black and white photography #glasgow #christmas #christmas lights

[virtualscotland]

Experiencing the beautiful and magical Enchanted Forest in Pitlochry, Scotland - what an incredible evening at one of Scotland's biggest autumn events! 😍

@scotland-forever @scotianostra @scotlandscalling @scotland-blog @enchantedforestsworld

#scotland #visitscotland #youtube #walking tour #edinburgh #landscape #outdoors #pitlochry #enchanted #forest #enchantedforest #enchanted forest #lights #ligtshow #light show #perth #beautiful #beauty #glasgow #tour #tourism #tourist #scotland is beautiful #autumn #halloween #festive #festive season #festive spirit #fall #fall vibes

[martindcracknell]

Glasgow Coffee Festival, what a aweeome place for some shots! ⬛⬜☕

#lensblr #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #street photography #streetlife #chasing the light #fujifilm #fujifilm xe4 #light #photography #black and white photography #blackandwithephotography #b&w #black and white #streetphoto #street #scotland #glasgow #coffee

[highcontrastgrey]

Glasgow, Scotland by Highcontrastgrey.

#glasgow #scotland #united kingdom #architecture #mansard roof #dark acamedia #light acamedia #cityscape

[zoedargue]

Glasgow by @zoedargue ​ https://zoedargue.com/ 

#photo #photography #photographer #original photography #photooftheday #original photographers on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #photoblr #Zoe Dargue Photography #glasgow #people make glasgow #Glasgowart #glasgow photographer #creative scots #scotland #scottish #lights #city #cityscape #edinburgh #Aesthetic #aestrhetic #vibes #vibe #core

[proserpnias]

23/3/23 Botanic Gardens on a (relatively) sunny day

#nature #flowers #botany #sculptures #mypost #diary #scotland #glasgow #light academia #academia #dark academia #grad life #photography #digital #sun dial

[fourtracknights]

4TN - Ty Lumnus

Glasgow based producer, musician and host of Attack/Release came through to Paisley to play an inspirational set for Four Track Nights.

You can see more from Ty Lumnus live at Attack/Release

#instrumental #paisley #experimental art #experimental electronic #ambient #experimental noise #4TN #Four Track Nights #Digital #Art #Liquid light #artists on tumblr #electronic music #noise #scotland #glasgow #Youtube

[hazy-siren]

9/6/23: Absolutely lovely blooms on campus

#flowers #light academia #summer #cottagecore #aesthetic #pink #pink tag #june #scotland #glasgow #academia #mydiary #diary

[scotianostra]

On September 1st 1971, Glasgow’s  sole remaining gas street lamp in North Portland Street  was lit for the last time by Lord Provost Sir Donald Liddle.

Every street in every town, and every city around Scotland and indeed most of the world were first lit by gas, I can’t remember them, the first street I grew up in had the big concrete poles that had the large electric light on top, I thought gas lighting had disappeared way long before the 70’s. 

Gas street lights were introduced to Glasgow in 1818 by the Glasgow Gas-Light Co. The Glasgow Police Act of 1866 authorised the Police Board to install lighting in streets, courts and common stairs. In 1869 the city acquired Glasgow’s two gas companies and by 1870 the Gas Department had installed up 10,657 street lights and 17,284 stair lights in the city. By 1914 there were 19,437 gas lamps in the city’s public streets, and 1,541 electric lamps. In the private streets and courts there were 6,527 gas lamps and 126 electric lamps.

 At it’s peak the Corporation employed 1,050 workers in the Lighting Department alone!

The first electric lights were introduced to Glasgow in 1893.  As electricity became more popular, gas lights were phased out. By 1955 the Corporation maintained 7,723 gas lights compared to 33,186 electric street lights. Gas lighting continued in Glasgow until at least the mid 70’s but only in the closes. Most of the stairs had gas lamps on each floor, but some had been converted to electricity and needed a triangular key to turn them on and off so no self timers back then.

Among the pics is the Robert Louis Stevenson poem Leerie,  The word leerie is perhaps best known nowadays from this nostalgic poem The character, ‘Leerie’, is depicted as a romantic wanderer who charms the imagination of the child-narrator, trapped behind the window of his house in the evening dusk and musing on ambition.

The word has inevitably fallen out of use as the twentieth century progressed. A fairly late example occurs in The People’s Friend (1953), noting it is ‘only about 20 years since most “leeries” disappeared.’

The oldest known evidence for use of the term leerie is found in an article from The Scotchman, a short-lived Scots newspaper of the early nineteenth century, where we read that ‘the Scotsman may lang be the leery o his countramen’s min’s’ (1812). As a point of interest, the paper ran only briefly, from 1812-1813, and was published by John Mennons, who in 1783 initiated publication of the Glasgow Advertiser, now better known as The Herald. In the spirit of the quotation, the present author set out in pursuit of further linguistic illumination, but with some chagrin must now relate the murky origins of this word of the season. Our oldest quotation evidence records a metaphorical use of the word, linking light with clear thinking. Typically, we would expect a metaphorical meaning to evolve from a more literal one, but earlier evidence for leerie as a literal ‘lamplighter’ is not forthcoming. While it is probably safe to assume that leerie was in use on the lips of Scots speakers before it was captured in print, in 1812 the trail goes cold, and the etymology of the word is unclear. The Dictionary of the Scots Language attributes the word’s inception to the children’s alliterative rhyme: ‘leerie, leerie, light the lamps’, but how this rhyme arose still remains a mystery.

Leerie can also refer to the light of a lamp or candle, or the lamp itself, though these uses of the term are less widely known and attested. Again, many illustrations of this meaning are literary and metaphorical. In a poem of 1888, Robert Bennett wrote: ‘Noo the gowan shuts its e’e, And the starnie lichts its leerie’, the brightness of the daisy’s eye receding as the stars come out in the gloaming. Use of the word leerie is rare and usually historical after this time, so with twilight falling on this aptly autumnal term, this seems an appropriate place to end.

#Scotland #scottish #Glasgow #street lights #leeries