Do you remember when the lamplighters walked Glasgow’s streets?
’s streets?
In the late 19th century, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: “My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky/It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by/For every night at teatime and before you take your seat/With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street..” Sir Donald Liddle, the then Lord Provost, performed the final lamplighting ceremony on September 1, 1971, in North Portland Street, watched by 12 long-serving lamplighters with a combined service of 356 years.
“Nevertheless, the complete change from gas to electricity also means that the once familiar figure of the lamplighter …will no longer be seen.
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