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north triangle

© Simon Cornwell 2006
Exhibits positioned around the northern area of the site.


The "North Triangle" is the apex of the site where Yearling Close meets the access road and the area is grassed. It is home to a collection of Group B columns (most with modern reproduction lanterns fitted) and Group A columns (which all lack lanterns).


© Simon Cornwell 2019
The Group B columns are installed by the car park. They are - with the exception of the last exhibit - fitted with modern Phosco lanterns, and are all painted black.




C16© Simon Cornwell 2006
Modern, reproduction Windsor style square post-top lantern, possibly a Phosco 514, mounted on a ESLA 46/ REVO Cannock?? *** My notes are blank. Visit ***


C17© Simon Cornwell 2006
Phosco P111 lantern with opaque diffusing bowl. It doesn't have the normal spigot, but is mounted on a frog assembly to the column. The column was originally Exhibit 8: "Cast iron column based on the design of the Waterloo Cannons c. 1850. Several of these columns can be seen in the Cambridge Colleges. The stone buff colour is the colour in which it was originally painted, following an instruction issued by the Town Council in the early 1850's."


C18© Simon Cornwell 2006
Modern Phosco post-top lantern mounted on a BLEECO E66 fluted column with base compartment and ladder bar.


C19© Simon Cornwell 2006
Modern Phosco P111 post-top lantern. It's mounted on a REVO Moseley column with ladder bar and small base compartment.


C20© Simon Cornwell 2006
Modern Phosco post-top lantern mounted on REVO Moseley column with ladder bar and large base compartment with coat-of-arms on door.


C21© Simon Cornwell 2006
Modern Phosco post-top lantern mounted on ??? column. ***Needs visit***.


C22© Simon Cornwell 2006
Parkinson Maxilla Frog Type/Maxilla Upright gas lantern with clock controller and adjustment assembly for a parabolic steel reflector. The lantern is missing its mantle assembly, mantles, steel reflector and glass. It's mounted on a small feeder cabinet ***Needs visit***


C23© Simon Cornwell 2019
Arched bracket with double scroll mounted on steel column with embellishments and large decorated base compartment. Royal Burgh Perth. *** Needs visit.


C24© Simon Cornwell 2006
Tubular cast-iron column with central collar and embelished base compartment. The column was originally part of exhibit 59 where it was fitted with a leaf bracket with internal raising and lowering gear and came from the London Borough of Camden.


C25© Simon Cornwell 2006
Short octagonal column with single ladder bar. It's mounted on a wide octagonal base compartment which is missing its door.


C26© Simon Cornwell 2006
Short cast iron circular column with decorated and fluted base compartment. The shaft of the column has multiple collars including a decorative flanged collar near the top of the column. The column terminates with a wide splayed capital.


C27© Simon Cornwell 2006
Cast iron circular column with ladder bars, decorated collar and decorated capital. Includes a large tapered base compartment. This column can be seen in the Rodney Marshall photographs to the left of the main rows of Group A columns and was fitted with a semi-circular decorative bracket. It was not included in the original inventory.


C28© Simon Cornwell 2006
Cast iron circular column with wide splayed capital with multiple collars and blanked off ladder bar holes. The base of the shaft terminates in a large flower decoration and into a large circular fluted base compartment..


C29© Simon Cornwell 2006
Cast iron octagonal column with multiple collars and large base compartment..


C30© Simon Cornwell 2006
Cast iron octagonal column which tapers from the base compartment to a finial. Fitted with a horizontal bracket arm supported by a triangular floral decoratation. Includes a mounting point for a pendent lantern. The column terminates in a large base compartment. The door carries the the Aberdeen coat-of-arms (three castles with "Bon-Accord" legend). The maker's boiler plate is above the door and states "**** Needs visit". This column and bracket can be seen in the Rodney Marshall photographs on the left of the main rows of Group A columns.


C31© Simon Cornwell 2006
Cast iron circular column with wide splayed capital with ladder bars. The base of the shaft terminates in a large flower decoration and into a large circular fluted base compartment.


C32© Simon Cornwell 2006
Short cast iron column with large capital, ladder bars, decorated collars terminating in a plain circular base compartment. It is fitted with a decorated harp bracket which would've accepted a pendent lantern. This column and bracket can be seen in the Rodney Marshall photographs at the back of two rows of Group A columns where it is fitted with a circular steel reflector.


C33© Simon Cornwell 2006
GEC Z4004 tubular steel column. The top fifth of the column is plain, but the other four-fifths are fluted terminating in collar. Includes a base compartment which is missing its door. The original collection included several GEC columns but I can't find an exact match with this one.


C34© Simon Cornwell 2006
Cast iron circular column with small, decorated capital and single collar. The base of the shaft terminates in a large flower decoration and into a large circular base compartment.


C34© Simon Cornwell 2006
Short cast iron octagonal column with multiple collars and octagonal base comparment with door. The side of the base compartment is decorated with a lion's head and the initials "WR". Fitted with an octagonal post-top lantern.


C36© Simon Cornwell 2006
Short ornate cast iron column with sugar twist styling to the top half of the shaft which tapers out into a small base compartment. Multiple collars mark each tapered section. Has one ornate ladder bar with decorative scroll. The column was originally exhibit 25: "Cast iron column with square base, circular decorative shaft and single ladder arm. Cast by S. Pontiflex & Co., 22 Coleman Street, London. The lantern is probably a modern reproduction post-top square lantern with frog.


C37© Simon Cornwell 2006
Possible concrete column? Needs visit. ***. Fitted with Phosco P109 post-top lantern.



© Simon Cornwell 2016
Final view of the Group A columns along the side of Yearling Close.



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