File:Old cast iron lamp standard, Clarendon Crescent - geograph.org.uk - 1456262.jpg
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English: Old cast iron lamp standard, Clarendon Crescent This relic on the corner of Clarendon Crescent, Lennox Terrace and Queensferry Road spends most of the year hidden by trees and so you could be forgiven for thinking that it isn't there at first. It is the survivor of many similar ones which used to light Queensferry Road northwards from the Dean Bridge to the city boundary at Cramond Brig.
The column was made by Mackenzie & Moncur, the later incarnation of Mackenzie Bros, and so dates it as post-1903. It is unusual in that it is to the pattern of Falkirk Iron Co. columns of similar vintage. A genuine Falkirk column can be found a few hundred years along the road, at the south end of the Dean Bridge. The column has quite a few scars. The top pinnacle is missing, and the outer tracery on the bracket was removed when the column received its sodium lantern in the 1960s. On Falkirk and Falkirk-pattern columns, there is a longer drop to the lantern which means that the outer tracery is normally preserved. Conversely, the genuine Falkirk column on the Dean Bridge has a tube extension between the bracket and the lantern. This fixture normally was associated with most Mackenzie cast iron columns to preserve the outer tracery on the bracket, as early conversions to sodium lighting saw some Mackenzie columns lose the outer tracery on the bracket to accommodate the new lanterns. The nearby Dean Bridge Falkirk Iron Co. column, referred to above, originally stood in Lutton Place in Newington. When that street was relit in 1989, the column was moved to the Dean Bridge, replacing a slimline column which had itself replaced a Mackenzie one at that location. The other similar ones in Lutton Place and surrounding streets weren't so lucky as they were scrapped on-site. Despite this column's scars, it is in otherwise in good condition, and is still functional in 2009. Hopefully this relic will receive a teardrop lantern in due course to ensure its survival. |
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| Author | Steven Oliver |
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