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cast iron columns and brackets
Finding original cast iron columns, along with swan neck brackets (which hasn't had the finial removed) and a nice
top-entry lantern, is becoming more and more difficult these days. So here's some pictures of some survivors which
still lurk down alleyways or on forgotten side streets.
Cast iron column and swan neck with GEC Z5560 SB
This lantern, pictured on Exton Street, London (near Waterloo Station) shows an extremely old cast iron column. I believe
this would've dated from the 1930s, and bares all the hallmarks of an ESLA casting (the vertical groove
patterning around the base being a characteristic).
The swan neck is more modern probably dating from the 1950s, as is the lantern, a GEC Z5560 SB.
© Picture: Lee Gale
Cast iron column and swan neck with GEC Z5560 SB
This is the second street light in the Exton Street scheme.
© Picture: Lee Gale
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