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Drummond Place Edinburgh New Town |
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Photo from Edinburgh Street Lighting Collection SL/90/8.
Photo taken June 2, 1956
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1956 This photo comes from the Edinburgh Street Lighting Collection held by Edinburgh City Archive. There is no photographer's name or other information on the photo, apart from the date: June 2, 1956. I assume that the photo was taken to show the newly installed lamp post in the middle of the photo, but it was the old tricycle with large wheels that I found to be more interesting. |
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Reply 1. Steven Oliver Duns, Borders, Scotland |
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Thank you to Steven Oliver for confirming the date of this photo: |
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Steven wrote: Street Lighting "The photos of Drummond Place and Great King Street would both have been taken in 1956: Drummond Place Great King Street Similar columns were erected nearby, at the same time, in: - London Street - Dublin Street. These are early Concrete Utilities (CU) Highway X columns; these continued to be installed in Edinburgh until around: - 1989 for complete installations - 1995 as casual replacements. The lanterns would have been tungsten ones originally. These were replaced, around 1960, by sodium lanterns. The columns in: - Great King Street - London Street - Drummond Place were replaced by modern 'designer' installations in the early-1990s, but some of the Dublin Street examples still remain as of early 2011. |
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Steven added: "There is a way of dating these columns. I have a feeling it may be too technical for the general readership, but I'll include it for reference:
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Steven Oliver, Duns, Borders, Scotland: January 27, 2011 |
