Where in Elgin?
Hazel Thomson, who sent in the photo to us, says: "This lamp is beside the Waterfalls bathroom shop on the Bishopmill Brae.
"I’ve seen it a few times on my way home and I'm intrigued.
"It looks every bit as though it's real gas lamp – it even flickers like one – but I’m sure it can’t be."
Gas-powered street lights replaced oil lanterns, before eventually being replaced themselves by electricity.
Edinburgh Town Council appointed Scotland's first public lamplighter in 1701.
Carrying a ladder a pot of oil, the lamplighter's job entailed trudging about at night and manually filling up each lamp's oil reservoir, or 'cruse' as they were known.
The first gas street lights installed in the UK were along Pall Mall in London during 1807.
The appeal of their warm and constant glow was such that, by the 1820s, that same city had more than 40,000 gas lamps burning along 215 miles of its streets.
Gas also came to be used in shops and factories as well as people's homes.
Looking back on this development, Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that, thanks to gaslight: "A new age had begun for sociality and corporate pleasure-seeking.
He added that "city folk had stars of their own; biddable domesticated stars".
However, gas could be dirty and dangerous.
If impure it gave off a bad smell and blackened walls and ceilings.
It also caused headaches, made rooms unbearably hot, and killed off household plants.
The Victorians' love of aspidistras is due to the fact they were one of the few plants that could survive.
Electricity arrived in Edinburgh first in 1881 with the trial installation of street lighting in Princes Street, Waverley Bridge and North Bridge.
Yet it was only after the First World War that electricity found its way into most homes.
