Jock58
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Hi All
Anyone know where i can get a little info on when Gas street lighting was phased out.
I have particular interest in the Thornliebank/Carnwadrick area.
Jock58
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Jock58
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Hi All
Maybe i should explain my interest.
On my dads birth cert, my grandfather is listed as a street lamp lighter.
I would like a little more info on what this involved.
Jock58
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fastnet
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Jock.
sorry i can't give you any info.
but i can remember my sister staying in eastwood and someone coming around and lighting the close lights.
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Jock58
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| fastnet wrote: | Jock.
sorry i can't give you any info.
but i can remember my sister staying in eastwood and someone coming around and lighting the close lights. |
Hi Fastnet
Could have been my Granddad ? Who knows but I remember my Aunt once telling me he often had a gang of kids following him down the Main street Thornliebank on his rounds.
jock58
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Nippy Sweetie
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Me again, Jock!!
Spoke to my Mum and Dad tonight and asked about this. My Mum remembers her uncle looking out the window (Capelrig St) and saying "here's Mr Berry now" about the lamp lighter - is this your grandad? Mum reckons the gas lighting phased out about mid - late 50's.
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Alex Glass
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Jock
When I was growing up in Cowcaddens I remember the closed roundabout being visited every night by the street lamp lighter. As far as I remember these men were referred to as street lamp lighters keeping the old job title even thou it was changed to electricity. The were still on the go just before we left Cowcaddens in 1967.
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Jock58
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| Alex Glass wrote: | Jock
When I was growing up in Cowcaddens I remember the closed roundabout being visited every night by the street lamp lighter. As far as I remember these men were referred to as street lamp lighters keeping the old job title even thou it was changed to electricity. The were still on the go just before we left Cowcaddens in 1967. |
Hi Alex
That could be the case with my Granddad although he did light the gas lights,
On his death cert. 1964 he is listed as street Lamplighter ,retired.
Jock58
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Fjord
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| Jock58 wrote: | Hi All
Anyone know where i can get a little info on when Gas street lighting was phased out.
I have particular interest in the Thornliebank/Carnwadrick area.
Jock58 |
Gas street lightings a bit before my time but I remember when my gran lived in Robslee Road Woodfarm in the 1970's early 1980's that all the street lights were illuminated by white bulbs as did most of the Thornliebank/ Giffnock area at the time. The colour of the street lights seemed to mark out the boundary between Glasgow and Eastwood.
The place never looked the same at night once the horrible orange sodium vapour lamps were installed.
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glasgowken
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My grandad was a gas lamp lighter as well 
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Jock58
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| Nippy Sweetie wrote: | Me again, Jock!!
Spoke to my Mum and Dad tonight and asked about this. My Mum remembers her uncle looking out the window (Capelrig St) and saying "here's Mr Berry now" about the lamp lighter - is this your grandad? Mum reckons the gas lighting phased out about mid - late 50's. |
Hi nippy.
fraid not, my surname is Boyle. My Granddad was born 1883 so by the late 50's he would have been retired, that fits.
My Dad was one of eight kids, but only 2 boys. I know he had 3 Uncles so there may still be some Boyle's in the area.
Jock58
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Jock58
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| glasgowken wrote: | | My grandad was a gas lamp lighter as well |
Hi GK
We could be related by guild.
The ancient & glorious society of lighters. 
jock58
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cybers
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| Jock58 wrote: | | glasgowken wrote: | | My grandad was a gas lamp lighter as well |
Hi GK
We could be related by guild.
The ancient & glorious society of lighters.
jock58 |
Would that mean your Grandpa's Pummelled 2 sisters up a dark close ? 
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Philjer
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I remember the Gas LighterHi,
I do remember the Gas lighter and he also lit the gas mantles up in the close. I will never forget that smell of the stuff he used to keep his torch lit. I also do remember him unscrewing a cap and tapping out the contents onto the pavement. That’s when you could really smell it. Does anyone remember that smell?
Phil 
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Alex Glass
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 to Urban Glasgow Phil
How long have you been away 
I can't remember the smell you refer to but when we spent our summer holiday in a hut in Irvine we had gas light by night and I still remember that smell 
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Jock58
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Re: I remember the Gas Lighter | Philjer wrote: | Hi,
I do remember the Gas lighter and he also lit the gas mantles up in the close. I will never forget that smell of the stuff he used to keep his torch lit. I also do remember him unscrewing a cap and tapping out the contents onto the pavement. That’s when you could really smell it. Does anyone remember that smell?
Phil |
Hi Phil
I believe the materials use could be quiet exsplosive in the wrong hands.
Jock58
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Philjer
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| Alex Glass wrote: | to Urban Glasgow Phil
How long have you been away
I can't remember the smell you refer to but when we spent our summer holiday in a hut in Irvine we had gas light by night and I still remember that smell |
As far as I can remember we lived on Linthouse Road off Govan Road right outside the shipyards (we moved twice on Linthouse Road due to demolishing of the buildings)
I remember my sister being born at home there. We moved to the Gorbals (I believe the street name was called Logie Street and then we lived in Gelpsie Street),
Since then moved again several times then because the buildings we lived in were being demolished, we move to Abbotsford Place where we lived for about six months. Yes we moved again this time in Govan Road (opposite where we lived at Linthouse Road) right next to the General Hospital. Again we moved to Uist Street in Govan where we lived with my Granda and Granny.
All this time moving started as I remember when I was only (Believe it or not) 5 years old, we finally moved out of the area and moved to Port Gordon where my mom was born, again we lived with relatives.
Just a brief snippet
Having said all that, I still to this day retain memories in greatest detail as that time and that which influenced on me as a child and how it impacted me in my adult life.
To sum it all up, the importance of escaping that part my life growing up in the most grueling times in severe of poverty.
Overall I spent the first 11 years a child in the Gorbals / Govan and was street wise at the age of 5. (From 1949 – 1960)
I live in Birmingham Alabama
Phil
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27stowst
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lamplightersI can remember the gaslighter coming round every night to turn the stair and street lights on. We used to collect the gas mantles when he replaced them, I don't know why, and they were very fine mesh which crumbled like ash. This was in Cowcaddens and was late 50's or early 60's. I'm pretty sure we called him The Leerie but not sure where that name came from.
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streapadair
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Aye, they were all called Leerie.
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.
For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
And oh! before you hurry by with ladder and with light;
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!
R L Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
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kev
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found another book given to me in the eighties.. full of stuff like this
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