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This is one of lamp posts on the Queen Margaret Drive bridge on the west end of Glasgow. From its shape and design, it looks like it might have started its life as a gas-powered lamp and was only later converted to run on electricity. If it is, it's one of the few reminders left of the city's once ubiquitous gas lighting network, which started in 1818 and was finally turned off in 1971.
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