January 2020
The #castironlamps on #PrincesBridge were installed a long time after the bridge was opened in 1888- in May 1926, when they made the news ! They trialled a variety of globes, featured in another article from 1925, when they installed the first single cast iron lamps on St Kilda Road. The article doesn’t say but the chosen ones had already been used on the Church Street Bridge, opened in 1924. I like how they’ve painted up the @cityofmelbourne crest, with its spouting #whale and comedy #kangaroo.
The bases of the Princes Bridge lamps are clearly based on the ones on #PrincesWalk, the ramp / street leading up to #PrincesBridge (that used to be #BatmanAvenue, complete with tram) which was built in 1890 (the date helpfully cast on the bases). It was added by the @cityofmelbourne, hence their crest on the lamps. Possibly designed by A W McKenzie. The (wonky) lamp on top is from the 1920s. I guess they were meant to get gas lights, but the photo from c1900 implies they never did, and by then the bridge had the first generation tall electric fittings. 
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