4? 6? or even 8?

I'm getting a few of my scrapbook pages onto my blogs these days! There are several of these wonderful lamps on the parapet of Tweed Bridge, though for the life of me I couldn't tell you if there are four or six! I rather think there are six! I showed you one of them on 10th February, and commented on the tiddly lamps at the top, but you couldn't really see the base too well, so here it is, looking a lot clearer. I suspect the fish is a stylised salmon, the fish for which Tweed is famous. It's certainly very impressive and makes me think of one of the spires in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is of four dragons with their long tails twisted upwards into the spire!

Having just looked up a couple of websites, I can now tell you that the bridge lamps date back to when the bridge was last widened in 1900, and that the fish are dolphins!? The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland has some interesting old photos of the bridge and one of the former lamps. Click here and when you get to the photos you can enlarge them by clicking them too! I can also tell you that there may even be eight lamps! I'll have to go out and count them, and I'll tell you next time!