‘A walk not far from home I turned a street corner to find this beautiful Victorian lamp post. Bright green and standing out in a street of more modern homes. But can you tell me where this is? Another hidden gem from Edinburgh’s suburbs. Do you recognise the green lamp post?’
Hello Derek, thank you for you comment. This was one of my very early sketches as Edinburgh Sketcher and I remember being facinated by these lamps and love finding about these traditions. I had no idea about the table lamps though, that is great you got yours working again. All the best, Mark. ES
My Grandfather & Grandmother had one of these Baillie lamps outside their house in Braid Avenue, Edinburgh in about 1968 or so when my Grandfather was a Baillie. He and my Grandmother then had a small version as a table lamp on their telephone table in their house. I’m not sure if this was given to them or if my Grandfather had it made as I have done a lot of research to try and find anyone else who had a small table lamp version, but with no success. Unfortunately, neither my Grandfather or Grandmother are with us any longer, but I now have their Baillie lamp table lamp and as it hadn’t worked for years, I have just recently taken it all apart and rewired it so it now works and looks amazing.
Thank you so much! I’ve been searching everywhere for the information.
Love your sketches, been following your work on Facebook.
Hi Anna
These lamps are known as Baillies’ Lamps and were put outside the houses of Lord Provosts, and other long serving local politicians. Here is a link I found to a photo of that particular one and explanation:
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1730326
Please could you tell me about this lamp? I can’t see the link on your page. I walk past this all the time & cannot find anything out about it.
Have a look on my facebook wall for more information about this lamp, and thanks to Mhari for the info. http://www.facebook.com/edinburghsketcher