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24|07|08
The pages for the Stanton 8A, Stanton 8B and Stanton 8C
are missing from the catalogue - or did they ever exist as without page numbers it's difficult to tell.
So the Stanton catalogue continues with the Stanton 8D.
I've been working on my small Grey Wornum lantern.
22|07|08
The Stanton catalogue offers a different lantern option for the 8.
Peter Rivet offers more history of Banstead's street lighting (scroll down to
the penultimate picture).
New lanterns in the collection:
ELECO GR 553,
Phosco P125,
Relite Hyperion 135 and
REVO C1068.
New bracket in the collection: REVO B33.
Rephotographed: ELECO GR 551 and its
REVO bracket.
20|07|08
The next Stanton catalogue, which dates from 1958, kicks off with the Stanton 8. By coincidence,
Lee Gale has been out-and-about spotting 8s in Epsom.
Three more lanterns have been added from the GEC catalogue from 1979: Z9454, Z9554M and Z9564.
18|07|08
Stanton 7B and
Stanton 7C finish the Stanton 1948 catalogue.
C15 help nail the colour scheme for the REVO Small Grey Wornum.
16|07|08
Not surprisingly the Stanton 7A is next to be featured.
Continuing with the GEC catalogue from 1979, the Z8522 Cutoff , Z8534 Cutoff, Z8536 and Z8438
are all briefly described.
14|07|08
The Stanton 7 starts the Stanton 7 series.
The great move of the brackets from one part of my garden to the other continues:
REVO B14054,
Lucy Large Swan Neck Bracket (2),
Lucy Large Swan Neck Bracket (3) and
Lucy Large Swan Neck Bracket (4).
12|07|08
The Stanton 6F and 6G finish the Stanton 6 series.
The technical details of the Atlas Gamma Five have been added.
10|07|08
The architecturally designed Stanton 6D and 6E make their debut.
The rest of the adverts from Public Lighting #101: September 1958 have
been scanned. This includes new adverts from Siemens Ediswan,
ELECO,
Wardle (the newly designed Atholl with dimples) and
GEC (the new 280W SOI bulb).
08|07|08
Today it's the Stanton 6A and 6C.
I've started scanning a GEC catalogue from 1979. Three lanterns
are described: the Z9465, Z8430CM and Z8370.
06|07|08
The Stanton 6 range starts with the Stanton 6 and 6B and the series
on the Erection Of A 25' Column has finished.
More of Cambridge's interesting relics have been pictured.
04|07|08
More Stantons. This time it's the Stanton 5.
Plus I've added pictures of REVO's artificial stone standards from
the early 1930s.
02|07|08
The 1948 catalogue continues with the Stanton 2 and
Stanton 3.
I've written up the history of the REVO Festival plus added pictures
of it in-situ.
30|06|08
Peter Rivet recently e-mailed me with a history of the old gas installations in Cambridge with links to archival
pictures. So, I've converted it to a webpage and added it here.
Mike Ashworth has sent me photocopies of parts of two Stanton catalogues; one detailing
the firm's 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 columns and brackets; the other outlining the 8, 9 and 10 columns and brackets. This will fill in most
of the gaps in the Stanton series and will be of great interest to concrete fans. So, we kick off with the 1948 catalogue and the Stanton 1.
16|06|08
A leaflet describing the GEC's polycarbonate bowls and cones features several of their
most popular lanterns: the Z5580, Z5590, Z9480, Z9530 and Z9536.
04|06|08
I've had to recently move my collection of brackets (as they were leaning against my neighbour's fence... and threatening
to break through). So, as they're being ferried around the garden, it made sense to sort out which lanterns they would
take and get them photographed.
Some you will have seen before. Others are new to this site. So, here's the first five: REVO B17,
REVO Large Swan Neck Bracket,
Unknown Medium Swan Neck Bracket,
Unknown Medium Swan Neck Bracket and an
Unknown Wall Top Bracket,
30|05|08
Fans of old concrete lattice brackets should like the Southern Electricity Service advert I've added to
the Contact page.
Indo Lighting have sent me their latest press release A Revolution In Lighting (Microsoft Word document) which
describes induction lighting (seen as a competitor against LED and metal halide). It's definitely worth a read and you should also check out their
website.
Half the adverts from Public Lighting #101 (September 1958) have been scanned.
23|05|08
I still can't find that CD: so the Gamma Four and
Gamma Six make their first appearance on this site.
Keith has sent in a picture of the Kings Lynne ESLAs at night.
16|05|08
I've managed to lose (hopefully temporarily) my CD of all the scans of the GEC catalogues. So, until I find it
again, I'll turn my attention to a manufacturer I've hardly documented yet, and the website is definitely lacking for it. Therefore the Atlas
(later Thorn) range kicks of with the Alpha Eight.
The rest of the adverts from Public Lighting June 1958 have been scanned.
12|05|08
The Festivals in York have now all been removed and thanks to the kindness of the
council (Ricky W. at City Of York Council), their contractors (Don A. at Amey) and the organisation of
John Thompson, all eight were saved
and are now in private collections.
Addition thanks to Bob and Pete for driving up to York to collect our batch.
I met them at in a M1 service area to collect my Festival.
So, the Festival is at the heart of this week's update.
REVO's original catalogue page for the Festival has now
been scanned.
My Festival has now been restored and erected, and pictures of all the work can be
found here.
02|05|08
The publications section has been expanded with two books which every street lighting
enthusiast should track down.
The first half of all the adverts from Public Lighting #100 (June 1958) have
now been scanned.
25|04|08
The small installation of REVO Festivals in York has now been documented. These street lights
are due for removal in the next couple of weeks.
Keith has written in with more information about the Kings Lynn ESLAs (scroll to the bottom of the page).
Adverts from the 1937 edition of Electrical Engineer have been added. These all feature the newly
introduced 80W and 125W MB lamps:
BTH (including the County Junior lantern),
GEC,
Siemens,
Philips (great advert showing the 1935 prototype being demonstrated) and
Ediswan. (Thanks to Colin Grimes for the scans).
More of the 'interesting' street lights in Cambridge have been documented.
20|04|08
The Richardson Candle page has now been updated with
a survey of the existing installation and more photographs.
18|04|08
A rather different update today.
Cambridge Council will be deciding the fate of the Richardson Candles this Monday. A new prototype lantern
has been installed along King's Parade and this is intended to be their replacement. The meeting will discuss this lantern and
decide whether to put it forward for Cambridge's PFI which is going to be submitted soon.
I have photographed and surveyed the remaining Candles and these results will be online soon. However, I needed to get
all the documentation I had concerning these historic and unique lanterns online fast; so priority has been given to them.
On this page you'll find two documents: Why Snuff The Candles? which
argued for their retention in 1980, and the Cambridge Lighting Strategy which was produced in 1999 and suggested
their conversion or replacement by a bold new unit.
There's some other bits and pieces of interest on that page along with some of the photographs I've taken of the
Candles. More will be appearing soon.
Additionally there's a page devoted to some of
Cambridge's more interesting lanterns - that is to
a street lighting enthusiast. This is only partially finished at the moment so more will be appearing soon.
11|04|08
An ESLA Bi-Multi Group 'A' Two-Way 180° STRAIGHT
lantern on a Lucy bracket has been added to the collection.
The restored REVO Junior Sol-Etern (C15161)
has now been extensively photographed.
The Clearmain 9504A Family is documented.
04|04|08
And we're back to the GEC catalogues:
Group A Lanterns (from 1981) which describes the
the remains of the Z8524/6 and Z8534/6 ranges;
the clearmain 9454/5c and 9464/5c lanterns;
the clearside 9494/5 lantern; and the
clearmain 9504 family.
31|03|08
And all the remaining adverts from the March 1958 edition Public Lighting are now online.
24|03|08
A further six adverts from the March 1958 edition Public Lighting are now online.
21|03|08
The GEC catalogues continue: the
Z8490 family;
the Z8495 family;
the Z8520, Z8526, Z8520HPS and Z8526HPS family; and the
Z8521, Z8522, Z8527 and Z8536 family.
14|03|08
The GEC catalogues continue with the
Z5673 family,
the Z8256,
the Z8260,
the Z8452 and the
Z8453.
The ESLA Bi-Multi Group "AL" Two-Way 175° lantern
and its associated bracket have been rephotographed.
I found a collection of poorly scanned Holophane lanterns in my archives. Whilst there's
no technical description of the lanterns, it has allowed me to expand the range of
GLS,
Mercury and
Sodium lanterns, add pictures and combine some
entries. Judging from the dates of existing entries, this catalogue dates from the early 1950s. However, it's
a pity that scans of the entire catalogue isn't available.
The new Holophane scans, plus some suggestions from Peter Rivet, has allowed
me to further identify some of the Dublin street lights (including
the lanterns mounted on the concrete columns originally installed in the centre of the city).
The first six adverts from the March 1958 issue of Public Lighting
are now scanned.
07|03|08
A small selection of Tarslag's concrete columns and brackets have been documented thanks to an article
in Design from the early 1950s.
The Z5670 range of lanterns is fully described in
this 4-page GEC catalogue.
A while back Mike sent me some information about the lesser known street lighting standards of Dublin.
It appears to confirm by bracket's provenance and I've reproduced the relevant pages.
The AEI Leader 15ST column should be familar to many. It was an extremely popular
column and bracket combination for AEI (and later BLI and Thorn) lanterns.
29|02|08
After the "mini-meet" at fellow collector Pete Owen's yard, I've added to my collection of
lanterns, plus completed some incomplete examples:
1. Refractor dome added to the GEC Z55xx (Large Brim) lantern.
2. Refractor dome added to the GEC Z5354 lantern.
3. New lantern: the GEC Z5670
4. New lantern: the GEC Z5713
And I also picked up a wonderfully preserved ESLA Bi-Multi Group "AL" 195° 82½° 82½° lantern on a REVO
swan neck bracket.
22|02|08
Side Road Lanterns features a detailed write-up
of the GEC's Z5640 and Z5643 range of lanterns.
15|02|08
The second half of all the adverts from the
1956 Conference Issue of Public Lighting
are now online.
A page showing Stewart And Lloyds 1913 street lighting columns, trolleybus and traction poles
has been uploaded.
08|02|08
This GEC catalogue from 1974 summarises
all their "decorative" (or rather "post top") lanterns and some of their columns.
01|02|08
I've restored and documented the unknown GEC fluorescent lantern in my collection.
25|01|08
I didn't complete the update I was intending, so it's more advertisements from Public Lighting for this update. This time, it's all
the adverts from the first half of the
1956 Conference Issue.
18|01|08
All the street lighting related advertisements from
Public Lighting No 90 have now been scanned. Highlights include the GEC
Plastifractor, the newly launched Atlas Beta 2,
the first advert from A C Ford and the Wardle Dielikon
plastic refractor.
11|01|08
The other half the street lighting related advertisements from
Public Lighting No 86 have now been scanned. Look out for the new REVO
Haddington which was their latest wall mounted fluorescent.
I've finally got around to uploading pictures an details of a 1920s-1940s French bracket and lantern in the collection.
I have re-photographed my:
04|01|08
Half the street lighting related advertisements from
Public Lighting No 86 have now been scanned. This includes several new lanterns from
several manufacturers and the start of the Atlas range.
22|12|07
Several new lanterns in the collection: a
GEC Z5034 Large Wembley,
REVO "Two-Bulb" lantern,
REVO Prefect,
REVO Junior Sol-e-tern,
REVO Small Grey Wornum,
Sugg Rochester and an
Unknown Decorative Post Top.
Sections for the columns have been added to each manufacturer. Like the ranges of lanterns, these will give
an ordered inventory of a manufacturer's output and link into their catalogues. New sections have been added for
AEI,
BLEECO,
Concrete Utilities (brand new section featuring many of their columns and
brackets),
DAVIS,
ELECO,
ESLA,
Girling,
Hardy & Padmore,
Metrovick,
Poles Limited,
REVO,
Stanton and
Stewarts And Lloyds.
I have added photos of:
I have re-photographed my:
Official site photographer, Lee Gale has been out and about recently, snapping the various relics still
to be found on the streets of south London. He's found loads of ESLAs lurking in
Merton Park and an amazing old Concrete Utilities
Avenue 4D Lattice Bracket.
A Phosco Catalogue has been added which includes most of their
lanterns from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
I have documented all the steps in a full restoration of a
REVO Junior Sol-e-tern.
All the street lighting related advertisements from
Public Lighting No 84 have now been scanned. The
selected article tells the story behind the Siemens Kuwait
lantern.
08|04|07
A Holophane French lantern has made it into the collection. It's joined by a
REVO C14410/T "Bell Top",
REVO Prefect,
GEC Z5225 Faceted Reflector Lantern and a
Thorn Beta 79.
17|02|07
More from the Highway Reference Book 1951:
Stewarts And Lloyds,
Hardy And Padmore,
Johnston Brothers,
Keith Blackman,
Lucy and
REVO.
I've restored another ESLA Bi-Multi Group "AL" Two-Way 165° on
a Lucy Large Swan Neck bracket.
04|02|07
Advertisements from the Highway Reference Book 1951:
ELECO,
Hardy And Padmore,
Siemens and
Sugg.
And from the same book are some descriptions of the ranges by the
GEC and
Holophane.
27|01|07
Lanterns in the collection:
ESLA Bi-Multi Group AL Two-Way 165°,
ESLA Bi-Multi Group AL Four-Way 90° 90° 90° 90°,
BTH Rural Open and
ELECO Welwyn MK III.
20|01|07
Lanterns in the collection:
AC Ford AC730,
AC Ford AC848,
AC Ford AC850,
BLEECO 677,
BLEECO Enclosed Sunstar (694),
BLEECO Enclosed Sunstar (695),
BTH Rural Open,
BTH Urban Enclosed,
Crompton Parkinson ???,
Crompton Parkinson ???,
ELECO HW846 GoldenRay MK VII,
DAVIS GR70 Starline,
ELECO GR 501,
ELECO GR 551,
ESLA Bi-Multi Group AL Two-Way 165,
GEC Z55?? (Large Brim),
GEC Z5354,
GEC Z5580 B,
GEC Z8228,
GEC Z8425 (Horizal),
GEC Z8591,
GEC Z8601,
GEC Z8832,
GEC Z9460,
GEC Z9491,
GEC Z9531,
GEC Z9532M,
GEC Z9533,
GEC Z9536 (Old style refractors),
GEC Z9539,
Holophane Post Top/Metropolitan Vickers Post Top,
Osram Z8601X,
Osram Z9464,
Philips GT 51,
Philips MA 30,
Philips MI 26,
Philips MI 36,
Philips Cityvision CPS400,
Philips SGS 201,
Philips SGS 203,
Philips SGS 204,
Phosco P100,
Phosco P101,
Phosco P567,
REVO Prefect (Mercury Prismatic Bowl),
REVO C14408,
REVO C14409 (Tungsten Prismatic Bowl),
Urbis Linford,
Thorn Alpha 5 (SLI),
Thorn Alpha 2000,
Thorn Riga,
Thorn Beta 4,
Thorn Beta 5,
Thorn Gamma 6,
Urbis ZX2,
Urbis ZX2,
Wardle Liverpool,
Whitecroft Arc,
Unknown #1 and
Unknown #2.
Columns in the collection:
BLEECO E66,
REVO Moseley,
REVO Groveland,
ESLA 46 and a
British Steel "Hockey Stick".
More leaflets from BLEECO have been
uploaded. This details changes in design of their Prismatic Streamline Panel Lanterns.
A Wardle catalogue from 1910 has been
uploaded. It has the weirdest names of any brackets and lanterns encountered so far.
A set of provisional leaflets from REVO
details some of their new range from 1958.
Lee Gale has been discovering and photographing all sorts of interesting things in
Wimbledon. And
Tooting.
All the adverts from the Public Lighting #77 have now
been unloaded. This includes pictures of the
Venner,
Sugg,
Gas Council,
Holophane and
Wardle stands at the 1953 APLE conference. In addition, the write-up about
Venner's stand has been included.
All the adverts from the Public Lighting #78 and
Public Lighting #80 have now
been uploaded.
I've started restoring my Wardle Liverpool.
I've started rewriting and rephotographing the fully restored lanterns in my collection.
The first ones documented are the BLEECO Worthing (100W) and
ESLA Bi-Multi Group "AL" Two-Way 165.
I've started rewriting and rephotographing the fully restored lanterns in my collection.
The first ones documented are the BLEECO Brighton Bracket and
ESLA Bracket.
And another Dreadful example of street lighting has been
added to the section of shame.
Some notes on correct focusing.
The Timeline has been expanded with more notes for 1953 and 1954. There are also notes
on street lighting and column design.
I've collected together some pictures of
Stewarts And Lloyds columns and brackets which will
be familiar to most.
30|07|06
My collection of photocopied pages from a 1950s REVO catalogue have now
been uploaded. I'm not sure of the order, or even if the catalogue is complete, so if anyone's got the original, could you let
me know.
Items in the collection:
REVO C13192 Silvergold,
REVO C13660 Cut-Off,
REVO Sol D'Or,
Thorn Beta 4 and
Thorn Beta 5.
Lee Gale has been photographing more; this time a lone
concrete column and some nice
cast iron columns around Waterloo Station, London.
An ESLA Bi-Multi Group 'A' Two-Way 165o 7½o has been restored on
a Lucy Medium Sized bracket.
12|06|06
Often confused with ESLA Bi-Multis or the REVO Magnalite range,
the REVO Directional Reflector Fittings have now
been documented.
30|05|06
I've added some pictures of the
street lighting museum at CU Phosco
plus some archival shots of CU columns.
And here's an interesting, yet odd, piece of memorabilia: A Map Of England And Wales showing
where all Gunfire timeswitch controllers were installed.
And some of the history of BLEECO has been unearthed.
All the adverts for the Special Conference Issue 1953 of Public Lighting
have now been scanned.
Additions to the collection:
ELECO HW 852,
Holophane Caribe,
GEC Z5640,
Thorn Gamma 6 and
ELECO GR 100.
And the first bracket and lantern have actually been installed: a Holophane 516/2/4607 Standard Type Duo Dome
on a GEC Ushaw bracket.
23|02|06
A fully restored
BLEECO Large Worthing on a large
BLEECO Brighton And Hove bracket
has been added to the site.
21|02|06
More concrete columns and brackets have been added to the
concrete columns and brackets.
And yet more additions to the collection:
ELECO GR 535,
ESLA Bi-Multi Group 'AL' Two-way 120,
ESLA Bi-Multi Group 'AL' Two-way 180,
ESLA Bi-Multi Group 'AL' Three-way 205 75.5 75.5,
ESLA Bi-Multi Group 'AL' Three-way 165 82.5 112.5,
Philips MA 9,
Thorn Beta 5 (on a mad bracket) and a
Thorn Alpha 1.
05|02|06
Additions to my collection:
Phosco P152,
Phosco P223,
Phosco P224,
Phosco P280,
Thorn Beta 7,
Thorn Beta 7 - Holophane Bowl and
Thorn Beta 7 - Anti-Vandal Bowl.
04|02|06
Added a couple of adverts from the
100th issue of Public Lighting:
GEC's Lanterns For Use With Mercury Lamps and
Stanton's Prestressed Spun Concrete Lighting Columns.
Alistair Bell's send in another snap from
Blackpool showing some interesting concrete brackets for fluorescents.
Across the water in Dublin, I discovered a
street lighting museum in a local park. And then I discovered I
had an Irish bracket in my collection.
Here's the odd story of the Cut-Off Thorn Alpha Nine.
And the collection continues to grow:
Thorn Alpha 8 (the original with two bulbs),
Thorn Beta 8,
Thorn Pilote and
REVO Junior Sol-e-tern.
27|01|06
And Wimbledon continues to be of interest. As Pete was in the area, I asked him to check out
some installations I remembered from the late 1990s. And
they're still there.
After seeing his pictures, I was 90% convinced that
a bracket and lantern I previously purchased in North London was
from Wimbledon. (Although the finial and the placement of the scrollwork is slighty different).
An ELECO GR 535 has been added to the collection.
23|01|06
A couple of interesting schemes have recently appeared which are based on some old 1950s-1960s installations.
The lighting engineer concerned needs more lanterns to complete them. There's one based on
a 35W SOX installation
whilst the other is retro-fitting some old MBF/U lanterns
fitted with modern metal halide technology. If you can help
source these two lanterns then please get in touch.
Additions to the collection: Lucidor A With Shoe and
Lucidor A With Gear.
Lee Gale has found yet more stuff in Wimbledon.
15|01|06
Added the following:
GEC Z6573,
GEC Z8896,
REVO Leicester,
Simplex Gemini and
Simplex Jupiter Major.
09|01|06
Lee Gale, who wrote
the piece on concrete columns for The Independent,
has been around the country spotting. Here's a small interesting installation he spied in
Wimbledon. Whilst here are
some concrete columns which
inspired the piece in the first place.
And whilst on the subject of concrete columns, part of the Stanton Employee's Handbook has been added to the site.
Here's some pictures of the infamous Haywards Heath installation - the stuff of legend. (Private note to Tom: yes, I got
out of my car this time!)
And, unfortunately, here's dreadful #4.
I've not been happy with some night-shots of lanterns in my collection. Hence this
test using different shutter-speeds with
an ESLA.
A 175o 2-way ESLA gets the full restoration treatment after languishing in a back garden for
several years.
And added a history of REVO - or what I know of it anyway.
The whole of an 1960s AEI catalogue has now been added. You'll find many
old favourites here.
Lots of pictures of the restored ESLA Bi-Multi 2-way
175o and
its bracket.
Items added to the collection:
ESLA Bi-Multi Group AL Two Way 150,
ESLA Bi-Multi Group AL Two Way 175,
REVO Solumbra,
Siemens Court,
Siemens Crawley and
Thorn Beta 79.
06|10|05
Some more additions to the collection:
Holophane Open Refractor,
GEC Z9536,
ELECO HW918,
GEC Z9554 and an
ESLA Bi-Multi Two-Way AL 165.
And they keep coming: here's number
three.
28|09|05
And the second example of a dreadful streetlight can now be found
here.
20|09|05
I've not updated the site recently for a couple of reasons (chief being having to work on
my other sites, and getting bogged down by a huge AEI catalogue), but there is light at the end of the
tunnel and normal service will be restored soon.
In the meantime, this image makes me laugh.
I've also started a gallery of dreadful streetlights from the past, which I'll be posting to the mailing list to
gather some comments. The first example can be found here.
29|07|05
Added two new adverts from
The Special Conference Issue of 1953:
Philips and
Stanton.
Some lanterns from a
1938 Holophane publication have been added.
My ESLA Bi-Multi Group AL One Way has now been photographed.
13|07|05
More, more, more:
BTH Amber,
GEC Z8254 (Deep Bowl),
GEC Z8254 (Shallow Bowl),
GEC Z8430CM,
GEC Z9450,
GEC Z9450,
GEC Z9480,
Holophane ???,
Holophane ???,
REVO C13723 and
Thorn Beta 4.
Night shots of the BLEECO Hastings have
been uploaded.
08|07|05
And still they come:
ESLA Bi-Multi Group AL 160 105 95,
GEC Z9484,
Holophane ??? and
Urbis ZX 1.
A BLEECO Hastings on a
Lucy Medium Bracket has been fully restored.
And ESLA Bi-Multi Group AL 155 and
GEC Z5590 NP.
14|06|05
And more:
AC Ford 888,
BTH Rural Enclosed,
Industria 2600,
REVO Goldcrest and
Thorn Alpha 9.
07|06|05
Corrections to the collection (the names and catalogue numbers are now correct):
AC Ford 424,
ELECO HW922 Silver-Ray,
GEC Z5643 and
REVO C9225.
Lanterns newly photographed include a:
ESLA Bi-Multi Group A 2-Way 175 Formed Glass,
GEC Z8426,
GEC Z9480-1C,
GEC Z9564,
Phosco P177,
REVO Hyperion A,
REVO Horizon Major,
Thorn Alpha 5,
Thorn Alpha 6,
Thorn Beta 5 (new style) and
Thorn Beta 5 (old style).
And
AEI Amber,
ELECO HW 505,
ELECO HW 922 (different bowl),
ESLA Bi-Multi Group A 2-Way 165 (with separate end-pieces),
GEC Z55xx Small Wembley,
GEC Z8260,
GEC Z8526,
GEC Z9554,
GEC Z9554M,
Philips MA 5 (ELECO GR 150),
Philips MA 5C (ELECO GR 151),
Philips MA 50,
Philips MA 90,
Philips SXK55 (MI 80),
Phosco P225,
Thorn Alpha 3,
Thorn Alpha 4 and
Thorn Alpha 6 with gear.
And complete pictures of my
hooked BLEECO 677 Worthing and
BLEECO Brighton bracket.
The contents of a general AEI catalouge have been uploaded.
27|05|05
The Phosco leaflets from the 1960s are further documented with the addition
of Leaflet 6: Pendant Lanterns.
REVO's been discussed on the list recently, and I've jumped forward to add an early 1960s
advert to the site (two pages) which
details their popular (and classic) lanterns.
More, more, more. We have a:
ESLA Bi-Multi Group A 2-Way 165,
ELECO Golden Ray Mk VIII,
GEC Z9543,
REVO C9922 and a
Whitecroft SRL35A.
25|05|05
And yet more! We have a:
Wardle Gordon,
Thorn Beta 2,
Thorn Beta 5,
ESLA Bi-Multi Group-AL 2-Way 180,
REVO Lucidor A and a
REVO Lucidor B.
23|05|05
More lanterns have been photographed from my collection:
ELECO HW-5???-A,
Phosco P121,
Phosco P153,
Phosco P777,
REVO C14408/T Bell-Top and
REVO Diadem.
10|05|05
Five lanterns have been photographed for the collection: REVO Eastbourne,
GEC ZD10807,
GEC Z5580 BP,
GEC Z5580 DB and
GEC Z5590 NP.
The Glossary and
Timeline have been updated.
29|04|05
By starting the next issue of Public Lighting Issue 77, I've managed to add quite a few 1950s
GEC lanterns to the website, as their two adverts featured pictures of all the popular models.
My collection is being moved around at the moment, so it seemed a good idea to start photographing and cataloguing it properly. Ten
unrestored lanterns have been added to the full inventory.
12|04|05
One of the earliest catalogues in circulation, a 1914 GEC catalogue has been
added to the site. I have a vast amount of GEC material, and the only way to sort it all out properly and
methodically is to start at the very beginning.
Jumping to the mid-part of the century, more of the 1960s Phosco catalogue
is now on-line.
All the street lighting adverts from the September 1953 issue of Public Lighting
have now been uploaded, along with an article about the first installation of cold-cathode vertical fluorescent lanterns
Liverpool Leads The Way.
And a GEC Z5560 has been added to the collection.
01|03|05
A new (well old) advert from has been added to the website and
two new (well very old) GEC directional lanterns have been added to the collection: the
Z5202 and
Z5204 which were GEC's version of an
ESLA.
18|02|05
The design and installation of the prototype City Of London lantern
by Siemens has been uploaded.
More adverts have been uploaded for the September 1953 issue of
Public Lighting.
10|02|05
All the ESLAs from 'the horde' (a collection of brackets found in a barn due for
demolition) have been uploaded and can be found here:
1,
2,
3 and
4. The two 2-ways will be installed on matching wall brackets,
whilst the 3-ways will be kept on their restored brackets.
Adverts are being uploaded from Public Lighting No. 76, Vol 18. New
adverts include those from Automatic Light Controlling Company and
Stanton.
02|02|05
Fixed some broken links, and then uploaded some 1930s REVO
literature and the start of their
street lighting fittings.
01|02|05
I've finished the latest set of BLEECO leaflets with all sorts
of weird and wonderful tungsten, mercury and sodium lanterns.
Another account of Wardle's history has been uploaded.
The state of street lighting just before the war ended is expanded upon in
this article from Public Lighting. It also covers the salient points
of the 1935/7 MOT standards.
And my all time favourite installation is covered: Welcome to REVO City.
08|01|05
Lots of refractor lanterns this time. The Phosco P100 and P101
have been documented along with the BLEECO Brighton Junior
and the decorative BLEECO Dome lantern.
A REVO Lodestar has been
added to the collection.
03|01|05
I've gone slightly mad and added all the advertisements from the
June 1953 of
Public Lighting. And, like the last update,
two new manufacturers are introduced:
Concrete Utilities (the extremely popular concrete column and bracket manufacturer) and
Tarslag (who are hardly worth covering really).
This left me clear to start on
September 1953 and start adding the
Wardle range to the website.
19|12|04
I've finished all the street lighting adverts in the
March 1953 copy of
Public Lighting. Two new manufacturers
are introduced (
Standard and
Metropolitan Gas Meters),
Automatic Light Controlling Company are still going, and
Holophane introduce two new post top lanterns.
04|12|04
It's ESLA day today.
Firstly more history about the Canterbury firm has been
reproduced here from the booklet
The Bigglestons Of Canterbury. This includes the
first pictures of a 1-way ESLA (which identifies the mystery ESLA in
my collection).
If that's not enough for ESLA fans, there's a picture of a lovely Bi-Multi and
bracket which has just been added to the collection.
And now, the icing on the cake: some
historical pictures of long-lost ESLAs in their
home town of Canterbury.
17|11|04
A Metropolitan Vickers advert from 1953 allows the
identification of five different lanterns.
06|11|04
Peter Rivett has greatly expanded his historical account of
Mackenzie Bros/Mackenzie And Moncur which includes
a description of the columns, brackets and lanterns.
By coincidence, Chris Hill sent me a picture of a
Mackenzie And Moncur bracket which are still extant on
Edinburgh's bridges. So, they both go well together.
05|11|04
I am now an Associate Member of the
Institution Of Lighting Engineers. When joining, I pointed out this website, and
asked if I could include articles from
Public Lighting (the original name of their journal). Their reply was positive: as
long as I credited the source, then that was fine.
So, for some weekend reading, I've uploaded the 1936 article by Thomas Wilke, which details the day-to-day work
of a public lighting engineer in the mid-war period. Thomas Wilke is a very important figure in the early days of the
association: he was part of the group who formed the Institute, worked under Sam B. Langlands in Edinburgh,
was president twice, and his usage of group switched lighting led to war-time blackout trials in Leicester.
03|11|04
Another couple from 1953: new boys Aspec show off their gas time switches whilst
Crompton are also advertising their lamps.
I've now fully restored another ESLA: check out both the
lantern and
bracket.
30|10|04
Crompton's Concept has been a big hit on the mailing list. So, I've added
the article in Public Lighting about it.
29|10|04
BTH and 'newcomer'
Ediswan have adverts from 1953 added to the site.
For fans of 1950s gas lights (are there any?),
Sugg and
Parkinson show off their latest wacky ideas.
Crompton show off their brand new idea: given that lanterns and brackets were
designed separately, often leading to garish or ugly complete units when assembled and installed (leading some to
describe the some streetlights as "Sick serpents with carpet cleaners in their mouths"),
Crompton came up with their Concept. The bracket and lantern
were all one unit. An interesting idea... which completely died on its feet.
And the Z numbers for the Brookvale lanterns have been added. Also,
check out the open sodium lantern, the exposed version of the
Z9480.
A BLEECO Hastings has been added to the collection - although I bought it
for its Lucy bracket with interesting Venner clock-box.
14|10|04
More adverts: this time from The Gas Council,
Parkinson,
Stewarts And Lloyds (a very important column manufacturer than no-one ever mentions) and
BTH.
I've been asked to identify some GEC lanterns recently. One was the rare
Brookvale Lantern: why GEC decided to introduce this
lantern when they already had the Wembley and Oxford lines isn't known. The Brookvale is very rare.
Keeping with the GEC,
my latest item is also from
the same era as the Brookvale.
08|10|04
An advert for Falks has now been uploaded.
The restoration of the ESLA continues with the bracket now being
stripped down completely. (And if you're wondering why it takes so long, I'm currently working on six brackets
at a time).
03|10|04
Night pictures of the
BLEECO Worthing lantern have now been published.
02|10|04
I've borrowed some BLEECO catalogues (thanks Bob!), so I'm concentrating on
getting these on the site so I can return them.
First up is a brochure from 1934 in which some of their lanterns, brackets and
columns are outlined.
And I've documented the first restored BLEECO in my collection: a BLEECO Brighton bracket and
Worthing lantern.
30|09|04
I've finished off the 1945 issue of Public Lighting with adverts from
Girling (who made concrete columns and brackets) and
Sangamo (who made time switches).
I've already started with the 1953 issue and have uploaded eight adverts
from that.
A new ESLA and bracket has joined the collection.
24|09|04
The collection continues to grow with this lovely ESLA bracket. I don't want the remains
of the REVO Prefect that's attached to it, so if anyone's interested then please let me know.
An 1945 advert for the Gunfire Controller has been added to the advertisements.
21|09|04
An attempt to re-create a 1950s-1960s installation in Barnstaple is documented.
Adverts from 1945 including Crompton Parkinson and Sordoviso have been added.
My ESLA/GEC/Lucy Bracket restoration has continued over the summer, along with
the stripping down of my Siemens Crawley lantern.
A BLEECO Worthing bracket has been added to the collection.
13|09|04
I've had a lucky weekend and managed to aquire some interesting bits and pieces: a rather odd ESLA 'Hybrid' swan-neck bracket,
a REVO Wall Bracket,
a Holophane 4125 glass bowl and
an ELECO Silver-Ray HW 922.
07|09|04
A collection of Phosco leaflets from the 1960s is currently being added to the
website. This was prompted by the mailing list - unidentified lanterns are ususally Phoscos
so it made sense to cover this important manufacturer. The first lanterns are all
enclosed sodium lanterns.
Night-time pictures of my REVO Prefect have been uploaded.
The Glossary has been extended and the
Timeline has been started - both will be under construction as I slowly add to them.
Three more adverts from 1945 have been uploaded including Walter Slingby, ATM and Sugg.
30|08|04
Peter Rivet has written in with some information about
Alder And Mackay Limited.
A REVO Prefect and
REVO 'Question Mark' bracket have been added to the
collection pages.
27|08|04
Poles Limited feature the Kuwait lantern
in their rather kitsch advert for Adastra Poles in the
Public Lighting 1956 Conference Special.
Going back to 1945, the adverts for Philips,
BTH and Horstmann have now been scanned. The Philips Lamp Advert
is very, very to-the-point... just buy our lamps!
Peter Rivet has told me about Mackenzie Bros who cast columns
around Edinburgh. By coincidence, I've discovered that many of the ornate cast-iron columns in Westminster were
cast by them as well.
After just receiving a GEC Z9451, I looked around for some documentation
or catalogue of this particular lantern and found it featured in GEC's advert
on the front cover of Public Lighting, March 1953.
17|08|04
Moving on to the Public Lighting, the Kuwait lantern
has been joined by the Coventry, Court, Carpenter and
Crawley. Check out the full range for the
differences, or check out the advert.
I got the company name wrong originally: it's Poles Limited, not
Adastra. This has been changed and an advert from 1945 for the company
is here.
Further vintage 1945s advertisements include the
British Commercial Gas Association (which features a night shot
of Cambridge which I can't place) and
British Electrical Development Association.
13|08|04
The news that several Siemens Carpenter lanterns have been discovered in a cattle market,
and that we might be able to get our hands on some, has spurred me into action to get some information about this
pioneering range of stylish fluorescent lanterns on the website.
The lantern was first developed by Siemens as the Kuwait sometime between 1953 and
1955. The first advert I have for the Kuwait (the largest of the family) has now been uploaded
here.
Obviously they were good business for Poles Limited as well, who
included the same (albeit airbrushed) picture of a Kuwait in their
Adastra advertisement from the same issue of
Public Lighting (September 1955).
11|08|04
Another ESLA installation has been documented - this was
originally featured on my first site. The descriptions have now been updated where necessary. Unlike the
Cheam installation, I believe this one still exists.
Holophane is now back on the website with a war-time
advert from 1945.
08|08|04
Night-time pictures of the stepped REVO and
ESLA 160o added.
07|08|04
Added one of my stepped REVOs and
brackets to my
collection page.
06|08|04
All the lanterns currently documented on this website have now been added to the
identification section - this includes the full ranges by
ELECO and
DAVIS.
The ELECO advert from
Public Lighting Vol#10, No. 36 has now been uploaded.
30|07|04
Another advert from
Public Lighting Vol#10, No. 36 has been added - this time,
it's for Metropolitan-Vickers who made lamps, control gear, lanterns, brackets
and columns.
The identification section has been expanded again to include lanterns from
A&M, Parkinson, Metrovick, ESLA and
REVO.
28|07|04
Four new archival advertisements have been added to the site, all from
Public Lighting Vol#10, No. 36 which dates from 1945. Of interest should
be a very familiar Stanton column.
The identification section has been expanded to include the whole BTH
range. Other lanterns will be added soon.
21|07|04
Added a picture of my newly aquired MA 400W lamp to the glossary. This
bulb will be used in my GEC "Lewisham" or
GEC "Horizal" lanterns.
A 35w SOX mystery lantern has now joined the collection.
Links updated with new sites from Adam and
Colin.
19|07|04
The infamous Ballards lantern is now in my collection. But
what is it?
(No - I don't think it's a REVO.)
18|07|04
Lots today.
I've uploaded the details of the REVO Magnalite range from
mid 1930s - these were REVO's mirrored directional lanterns.
But how could you tell your REVO from your ESLA? Well, I've opened the
identification section where everything is put on one page.
And I've also updated my collection page. With a REVO
Magnalite of course.
15|07|04
I've now added the Cheam Installation of ESLAs
which originally appeared on my old site. I also found some unpublished photos which I've put on-line for
the first time.
Unfortunately this is all teary-eyed nostalgia for me now. Despite leaving my name and phone number with
the council when they got replaced... you've guessed it, they all ended up in a skip.
On the subject of ESLAs, remember Haydn Thies Harrison, the man who
wrote the patent? Well, he turned up in Public Lighting #36 Vol.10 talking about the formation of the
APLE. Not only is the father of ESLA one of the founders of the association,
he was a Lt-Commander to boot. And spot the sly reference to
directional lighting in his column!
12|07|04
I've been on holiday hence the lack of an update for two weeks. But I'm back.
My next issue of Public Lighting
has now been outlined. It includes a feature
on new REVO designs, and they've now been added to the
site.
I've also added a latest addition to my
collection section.
24|06|04
Ever wondered how ESLAs were made? Or what the number etched on their canopies is?
Here's the patent.
The about section has been expanded with some begging.
21|06|04
Loads and loads and loads of stuff. Too much to mention really. Explore. Enjoy.
29|11|03
Finally, an update!
And you won't be disappointed. The first BTH catalogue has been uploaded - this
will help many identify those strange incadescent/mercury lanterns which seem to hang around near railway and powerstation goodsyards.
16|09|03
The links section has been updated with a new address for West Wales streetlighting.
Information about the streetlightinguk mailing list has been added to the mailing list section.
And the glossary has been started, with two additions from the recently uploaded
DAVIS booklet.
13|09|03
In the 1980s, DAVIS continued making the ELECO range of
lanterns. A small
booklet from the 1980s has been uploaded.
A brief history of ELECO and some thoughts about their relationship
with Philips have been added to the
firm's section.
02|09|03
I have continued with the ELECO range, uploading a
collection of leaflets from the 1970s.
The links section has been moved here and updated.
21|07|03
Welcome to the start of the new street lighting site.
Over time, I'll gradually move the contents of the old site onto this one. All new content will be posted here. But I'll leave the
old site up until it has been totally superceeded.
I thought I'd start this site with something totally new, so enjoy a collection of leaflets from
ELECO which date from the mid-1960s.
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