http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Floodlights planned to light up Scott Monument" en Thu, 21 May 2026 21:18:23 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231697 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:04:20 +0000 chdot 231697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"women of numbers"</p> <p>Now in circulation -</p> <p>"</p> <p>But a last-minute surge of voting, much of it from India but also from other countries, saw Telford accelerate past Somerville to reach 5,100 votes by the deadline. James Clerk Maxwell, the physicist whose study of electromagnetism inspired Albert Einstein, limped home a distant third.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/10/scientist-mary-somerville-scottish-10-note-royal-bank-scotland" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/10/scientist-mary-somerville-scottish-10-note-royal-bank-scotland</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231696 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:52:26 +0000 wingpig 231696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One of the snooty codgers at the George Street experiment debrief was requesting more statues of "men of letters or of science", particularly something at the Charlotte Square end, presumably to balance James Clark Maxwell-Building at the east. Hopefully there will soon be more statues of women of numbers and religion right outside his house, to annoy him. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231692 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:37:57 +0000 Min 231692@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pfft okay Chdot you win. ;-) I just think of a monument as being a bit more, well <em>monumental</em>.</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument">The wikipedia page</a> has lots of big buildings as examples. </p> <p>Gembo - woodpeckers perhaps? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231691 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:31:15 +0000 chdot 231691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/charles-dickens/10624574/Dickens-statue-unveiled-despite-plea-for-no-monument.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/charles-dickens/10624574/Dickens-statue-unveiled-despite-plea-for-no-monument.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231689 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:27:56 +0000 gembo 231689@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Min it had scrofula? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231688 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:26:55 +0000 Min 231688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Now you're just trying to confuse people.</em></p> <p>Well that is a statue not a monument. :-) I like the big dug statue too although it got covered up with tarp recently, I am not sure why. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231687 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:17:11 +0000 gembo 231687@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Arthur COnan Doyle has a monument of sorts in the garden of the very small secondary school in the Cameron Toll Shopping Centre Car Park - a huge dug statue.</p> <p>Robert Fergusson has a statue of himself walking along outside Canongait Kirk. He is buried in their graveyard. His stone was erected there by Burns and when it decayed reinstated by Stevenson and then a ceremony in 1960s by Garioch. Four Scottish poets down the centuries all called Robert. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231686 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:16:51 +0000 chdot 231686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I think if Arthur Conan Doyle didn't get a monument, the days of monuments for authors are over."</p> <p> Now you're just trying to confuse people.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-19343195" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-19343195</a></p> <p>(Just up the hill from RLS' favourite toy shop.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231681 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:01:31 +0000 Min 231681@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It would probably need an armed guard. ;-)</p> <p>I think if Arthur Conan Doyle didn't get a monument, the days of monuments for authors are over. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231678 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:49:25 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 231678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Irvine Welsh in Leith surely? Could replace Queen Victoria! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231676 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:41:51 +0000 acsimpson 231676@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>crowriver. I guess it depends on which authors are popular enough for the fundraising to be successful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231675 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:40:58 +0000 Min 231675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Oh yeah, the Scott monument. :-) Do they not floodlight the Burns monument too?</em></p> <p>I don't know, I am too confused now. Which one of them wrote Treasure Island? ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231664 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:11:03 +0000 crowriver 231664@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh yeah, the Scott monument. :-) Do they not floodlight the Burns monument too? I have been inside it, during the festival they exhibited a sculpture in there.</p> <p>Personally, I'm looking forward to the forthcoming monuments in the city centre to 20th and 21st century Scottish authors. I wonder how they will go about nominating the persons to be commemorated, the siting and design of the edifices, and, importantly, will they be floodlit at night? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231660 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:06:22 +0000 Min 231660@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I will have to go up and look at it at night, it is definitely a shame about how the ugly light fittings look during the day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231659 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:01:34 +0000 PS 231659@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I really like the Calton Road lighting.</p> <p>Saw the Scott Monument from North Bridge. Thought it looked pretty good - discrete and not too bright. </p> <p>Lights out (or at least dimmed) for darker skies. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231657 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:54:10 +0000 wingpig 231657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe they're allowed to allow more experimental-design hotels be built if they can OH LOOK AN ILLUMINATED WORLD HERITAGE THING.<br /> Could they not have concealed them in extra gargoyles, or developed a strain of bioluminescent lichen? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231652 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:31:16 +0000 Min 231652@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><u>Scott</u> monument. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231649 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:22:25 +0000 crowriver 231649@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"the tacky strip lighting they put in on Calton Road"</p> <p>It's a piece of public art by Calum Innes. There's a wee plaque explaining this.<br /> I quite like it.</p> <p>Dunno why they had to floodlight the Burns monument though. I suppose at least LEDs won't use as much juice as the old scorch electric heaters round the base... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231646 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:06:41 +0000 Min 231646@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh my goodness, I was hoping they would have done something more tasteful. I suppose I should have known better after the tacky strip lighting they put in on Calton Road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231643 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:10:13 +0000 Nelly 231643@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I remember the last floodlighting experiment, they were huge, bolted to the base plinths and pointing up to the top.</p> <p>Might still be there? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231642 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:08:04 +0000 gembo 231642@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or mock gothic thunderbird spaceship. International Rescue have left it there in disguise for many years without having to pay parking.</p> <p>Took an old pal up to see tthe burns monument Wednesday lunch time off regent road. It was shut </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231639 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:53:35 +0000 kaputnik 231639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I agree, didn't realise they'd bolted such utilitarian industrial lighting fixtures onto a Gothic sandstone masterpiece </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231635 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 21:59:37 +0000 Fountainbridge 231635@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought the lights spoiled the listed building</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/MuLcmr"><img src="https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8542/29861539565_f962353fa8_n.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/MuLcmr">160524155627IMG_5480</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/130059894@N04/">Paul fae Fountainbridge</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16908#post-231511 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:03:26 +0000 chdot 231511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/floodlights-planned-to-light-up-scott-monument-1-4236081" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/floodlights-planned-to-light-up-scott-monument-1-4236081</a> </p>