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installations: ancient
- Blackpool: Fluorescents
A collection of Group-A and Group-B fluorescent lanterns taken in the 1960s.
- Cambridge: Old Installations
Before the Candles, before REVO and before BTH, Cambridge
was lit by gas. Pete Rivet tracks down some archival photographs.
- Cheam: ESLAs
From my original site, here's the only documentation of a huge ESLA installation
from South London.
- York: REVO Festivals
For years, a small collection of these lanterns lit the approach to York Minster.
- Dreadful
Some pictures of some rather dubious street lights from the past.
installations: current
- Barnstaple: GEC/REVO
An attempt to recreate the 'original' installation - which partly succeeds.
- Beckenham: ESLA
A unique installation surviving on a private street in Beckenham, South London.
- Cambridge: Richardson Candles
The unique, bespoke, architect designed Richardson Candles of Cambridge.
- Cambridge: Lanterns
But there's more in Cambridge than the Candles.
- Cannock: REVO
Three REVO Lodestars still survive in Cannock.
- Haywards Heath: GEC
One of the last Group-A fluorescent installations in the country.
- Kings Lynn: ESLA
I really, really could not believe this! Sodium ESLAs still in service.
- Merton Park: ESLA/REVO
Lee Gale has discovered several 'rescued' lanterns and columns around
Merton Park in South London.
- REVO City: REVO/ELECO/GEC/Thorn
A 1930s REVO installation can still be picked out in the back streets of REVO City
- Tooting: Gas lanterns
It's not difficult to find interesting lanterns in Tooting; just walk out of the tube station.
- Wimbledon: ESLA/REVO
Tucked away in the back streets of Wimbledon, treasures can still be found.
installations: general
Instead of grouping old streetlights together by location, here they're grouped by category.
- Concrete Columns And Brackets
Concrete streetlights are becoming rarer and rarer. Here's a picture of some forgotten ones.
- Cast Iron Columns And Brackets
Similarly unspoilt cast iron columns, brackets and lanterns are also becoming depressingly rare. Here's
some examples from around the country.
installations: refurbishments
These two installations are unique. The first is a refurbishment of a pole-mounted 35W SOX scheme,
proving that with a bit of time and effort, old lanterns can be restored to as good-as-new.
The second is a trial installation in a village for a Parish Council. By taking old 1950s
refractor lanterns, and installing state-of-the-art metal halide technology, the scheme is
an interesting mesh of old and new.
- 35W SOX Reburbishment Scheme
- 70W MBI Replacement Scheme
installations: museums/collections
There are several museums and/or collections of older lanterns, brackets and columns. In time,
I'll document all those known.
- Concrete Utilities' Museum Of Street Lighting
- Stratford-On-Avon Collection
- Dublin collection
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