Boxes like this might not be as eye-catching as some of the other things I post, but they are none-the-less a part of the city's heritage.
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Known as a Lucy Box (after the Oxford foundry where most of them were made), they are usually cuboid in shape, but every now and then you comes across one of these cylindrical ones.
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A cast-iron post-box shaped Glasgow Corporation Electricity Department junction box on Kirklee Terrace Lane in the West End of Glasgow.
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It would have provided an electrical connection to the overhead wires that powered them. The smaller box on top contained a telephone to allow the driver or the conductor to check in with the tram depot.
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The GCT on the cartouche at the bottom of this metal box at the top end of Byres Road indicates it's one of the few remaining parts of Glasgow's once extensive tram network.
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A Glasgow Corporation Tramways junction box at Parkhead Cross in Glasgow. Boxes like this provided electrical connections to the overhead wires used to power the city's trams.
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The weird thing is that the lamp would most likely have been operated by the Corporation's Lighting Department, which usually had their own similarly branded Lucy boxes.
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This Glasgow Corporation Electrical Department Lucy box on Dykebar Avenue in Knightswood is the only one I've come across with a street lamp base fitted to its top.
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I love the different fonts used on this box, particularly the Art Nouveau ATE logo and the Art Deco Electo-Matic brand name.
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An Electro-matic traffic signal control box on Shakespeare Street in the Maryhill area of Glasgow. L
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