#lamplighters

[thepioden]

Let it be said, however, that when my friends and I want to play something not DnD we don't reskin DnD OR play an indie game that more closely matches the story we want but instead a secret third thing*

*spend dozens of hours meticulously crafting a new system from the ground up that will be used for this campaign and this campaign ONLY

[scotianostra]

The Lamplighter, by Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, And my papa’s a banker and as rich as he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I’m to do, Oh Leerie, I’ll go round at night and light the lamps with you!

For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight!

RLS wrote these words in the late 19th century, but leeries – or lamplighters – continued to be a feature of Glasgow’s streets until the 1970s.

They were familiar figures you could set your clock by, climbing up their ladders to light the gas lamps which lined the city streets.

But by the early 1970s, electricity was replacing gas, and it was time for the leeries to hang up their lighting poles. (Although they did continue to work as public lighting maintenance engineers, looking after the gas and electric stair lamps in the city closes.)

Sir Donald Liddle, the then Lord Provost, performed the closing ‘ceremony’ for the end of an era - on September 1, 1971, in North Portland Street, watched by 12 long-serving lamplighters with a combined service of 356 years.

Glasgow’s first street gas lamp was installed in 1818 – previously, there had been oil lamps between the Tron Steeple and Stockwell Street as far back as 1780.   In 1819, the Glasgow Board of Police Commissioners decided to convert all street lighting to gas. Electric street lights were introduced in February 1893.

By 1914 there were 19,437 gas lamps in the city's public streets, and 1,541 electric lamps. In the private streets and courts there were 6,527 gas lamps and 126 electric lamps. The Corporation employed 1,050 workers in the Lighting Department.

Pics are of the Lord Provost on this day in 1971, a news article reporting the event, a pic of the Glasgow Corporation “Leeries”, and a rare colour pic of one in 1955. 

[mindboogling]

The Newsies Fandom trying to find out everything about each and every Leerie in Mary Poppins Returns

[waynerd]

"Lamp Lighters 2018" - www.waynestadlerphotography.com

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[mostly-history]

A lamplighter in Kensington (1930).

[brandonsdrunkagain]

First half of beer mail from @adventureinthemountains ! Epic Brewing's New England Style IPA, Vicinity DIPA and Congress Street IPA from Trillium Brewing, both greatness, Rabbit Rabbit IPA from Lamplighter and this great 2015 Coffee Okie Brown Ale Aged in Whiskey Barrels from Prairie Artisan Ales. Thank you, Anthony, I can't wait to get to the other half!

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw)

Oh, Turpentine erase me whole

I don't want to live my life alone I was waiting for you all my life