MANY Glasgow Times readers have been bewildered by Lord Provost Jacqueline McLaren’s decision to install two fancy lamp-posts outside her West End…
Times readers have been bewildered by the recent decision to install two fancy lamp posts outside Lord Provost Jacqueline McLaren's West End home.However, the lamp posts are part of a Scottish tradition, which has all but died out except in some of the cities and bigger towns around the country.
In Greenock, the placing of the"Provost’s Lamps" in May 1974 outside the Bank Street home of new Provost Elizabeth Martin, was quite an occasion, as it marked simultaneously the first time a woman had occupied the position, and the town’s last ever Provost. The title was to disappear the following May because of local government reorganisation.
Glasgow’s long list of Lord Provosts stretches from the very first one in 1450, John Stewart, to the present incumbent, Jacqueline McLaren.
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