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"Floodlights planned to light up Scott Monument"
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Posted 8 years ago #
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I thought the lights spoiled the listed building
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I agree, didn't realise they'd bolted such utilitarian industrial lighting fixtures onto a Gothic sandstone masterpiece
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Or mock gothic thunderbird spaceship. International Rescue have left it there in disguise for many years without having to pay parking.
Took an old pal up to see tthe burns monument Wednesday lunch time off regent road. It was shut
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I remember the last floodlighting experiment, they were huge, bolted to the base plinths and pointing up to the top.
Might still be there?
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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.
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"the tacky strip lighting they put in on Calton Road"
It's a piece of public art by Calum Innes. There's a wee plaque explaining this.
I quite like it.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...
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Scott monument.
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Maybe they're allowed to allow more experimental-design hotels be built if they can OH LOOK AN ILLUMINATED WORLD HERITAGE THING.
Could they not have concealed them in extra gargoyles, or developed a strain of bioluminescent lichen?Posted 8 years ago # -
I really like the Calton Road lighting.
Saw the Scott Monument from North Bridge. Thought it looked pretty good - discrete and not too bright.
Lights out (or at least dimmed) for darker skies.
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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.
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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.
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?
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Oh yeah, the Scott monument. :-) Do they not floodlight the Burns monument too?
I don't know, I am too confused now. Which one of them wrote Treasure Island? ;-)
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crowriver. I guess it depends on which authors are popular enough for the fundraising to be successful.
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Irvine Welsh in Leith surely? Could replace Queen Victoria!
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It would probably need an armed guard. ;-)
I think if Arthur Conan Doyle didn't get a monument, the days of monuments for authors are over.
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"I think if Arthur Conan Doyle didn't get a monument, the days of monuments for authors are over."
Now you're just trying to confuse people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-19343195
(Just up the hill from RLS' favourite toy shop.)
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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.
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.
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Now you're just trying to confuse people.
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.
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Min it had scrofula?
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Pfft okay Chdot you win. ;-) I just think of a monument as being a bit more, well monumental.
The wikipedia page has lots of big buildings as examples.
Gembo - woodpeckers perhaps?
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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.
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"women of numbers"
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