Work has continued on the GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1948 and all the side road lanterns have now been covered.

The GEC Z9565 was another monster lantern, designed to take the massive 180W SOX lamp, and intended for dual carriageways, complex intersections, arterial routes and (potentially) motorways. They were a common site on the UK's roads but now near extinction.

Brief notes and summaries have been added for Public Lighting No. 48 Vol. 12 October-December 1947. This issue continued with the theme of the Southport Conference and included two papers and their discussions.

Work has continued on the GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1948 and all the main road lanterns have now been covered.

The GEC Z9564 was a monster lantern, designed to take the massive 180W SOX lamp, and intended for dual carriageways, complex intersections, arterial routes and (potentially) motorways. They were a common site on the UK's roads but now near extinction.

They used to light the A11 at Barton Mills roundabout but most have recently been replaced. So, it seemed a fitting time to look at the example in my collection.

John Featherbe has sent in pictures of some old survivors still hanging on in Folkestone's side streets. This includes one of the original REVO C14403 series lanterns (or "Bell Tops") on an angled A. C. Ford bracket which was very characteristic of the town's side streets.

By coincidence, one of these angled brackets and extremely rare side-entry REVO lanterns recently turned up at a collector's meeting. This is now in my collection.

This issue featured an article about the GEC's experimental fluorescent installation along Brompton Road.

I've continued the work on GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1937. This section concludes the large number of decorative large lanterns the firm made for civic areas, town halls and bridges.

I've also started a GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1948. This starts with the now familiar Wembley, Oxford and Difractor lanterns, but new "Universal" fitting adapters have now been developed.

One of the most popular ranges of pendant lanterns in the UK was the GEC Z5565 series. And, a couple of years ago, I was given a GEC Z5565NP which had been rescued from a demolition site.

Brief notes and summaries have been added for Public Lighting No. 45 Vol. 12 April-June 1947.

The Minister Of Transport has taken over street lighting and the department has issued a circular. The main takeaways are that they are bullish about approving the materials for new schemes, are pressing for more uniformity between lighting authorities and that their Final Report (1937) should be used for all new schemes.

There has also been some worrying comments about superimposed high frequency ripple control systems. The four manufacturers concerned (Automatic Telephone and Electric Co. Ltd., General Electric Co. Ltd., Measurement Ltd. and Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.) have come together to form the "Ripple Control Technical Committee" to address the concern.

The GEC Z5565NP was mounted on a GEC Z2311 pole bracket. These brackets were popular in rural and coastal areas where they were mounted on telegraph poles. This combination of lantern and bracket would've been popular in the 1950s and 1960s but they gradually started disappearing in the 1970s, especially when most pendant lanterns were replaced during the 1970s energy crisis.

The APLE's Annual Conference was held in Southport in 1947. I've started on its conference page with information about the exhibitors, adverts and details about the outside exhibitions. This page will continue to be expanded as I work through the conference papers and Public Lighting #46 and #47 in the future.

The standout papers were Sugg's The Quality of Public Lighting Installations and the Modern use of the Gas Source in which Crawford Sugg read a highly contenious paper promoting gas lighting; while Davies and Sinclair's paper Experimental Applications of Tubular Fluorescent Lamps to Street Lighting gave details of BTH's experimental fluorescent trials in London.

I've continued the work on GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1937. The firm's decorative lanterns are now included which include the previously covered Paisley and Parade Lanterns and also far more decorative large lanterns.

The Phosco P178 was once a very common sight on the UK's roads. One of these iconic lanterns has now been completely documented.

Also included are all the adverts in the 1946 Conference Programme.

I've continued the work on GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1937. Many of the lanterns from earlier catalogues, and those in the F-range, have now appeared. This includes the popular Conical Reflectors and the obscure Reflector Lanterns.

Little is known about the ELECO HW 505 as no catalogues have yet to surface for it. But it's popular with collectors as it was one of the largest Group B low-pressure sodium lanterns manufactured.

I've continued the work on GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1937. This time the Wembley lanterns have been covered - and the gap in the range Z 5000 and Z 5100 has now been filled.

Once a very common sight on the UK's roads, the Philips MI 26 was one of the smallest lanterns offered by Philips, only taking 35W SOX.

I've continued the work on GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1937. New pages concern the firm's range of medium and high pressure mercury lanterns - and include many 'new' luminaires for this site, filling in many of the gaps.

One of the first lanterns in the collection, this GEC Z9532M had a sticker inside calling it the Nightwatch 35.

Peter Rivet contacted me recently with a round-up of the remaining gas installations in the UK. I've included his list at the top of the installations page.

I've continued the work on GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1937. New pages concern the newly introduced MB (80-125W) lamps which required new gear, control boxes and diffusing globes.

Yet another Thorn Alpha 9? This one's a bit of a mystery; it has gear, it has a deep bowl, but there are problems with it.

Brief notes and summaries have been added for Public Lighting No. 38 Vol. 10 July-September 1945. The first conference issue since the war, it reports on the 1945 Conference in Glasgow, and more manufacturers are advertising their new, post-war ranges.

I've started work on GEC Street Lighting catalogue from 1937. This is a massive catalogue and will be uploaded in sections. So far I've covered various introduction pages, installations, and lots of technical information about the MA (150W-400W) and newly introduced MB (80-125W) lamps.

Another Thorn Alpha 9? This one's a bit of a mystery. It has gear, but it doesn't have a deep bowl. Was it ever part of their range or something created from spare parts when installed?

The next catalogue to be tidied up is the Industrial And Street Lighting Fittings And Accessories from the GEC dating from September 1930. The ideas here are to make sure that the website pages look more like the orginal catalogues and to ensure that all crossreferenced information (such as lantern information) is also updated.

Brief notes and summaries have been added for Public Lighting No. 36 Vol. 10 January-March 1945 and Public Lighting No. 37 Vol. 10 April-June 1945. Issue #37 celebrated the end of the ARP restrictions and more firms are actively starting to reappear as they switch back to producing street lgihting equipment.

A 1935 catalogue from the GEC has been scanned and unloaded. It differs remarkably from similar catalogues from several years earlier. The introduction of the first discharge lamp, the medium-pressure OSIRA (MA), has seen a revolution in street lighting, with the catalogue filled with (mostly) new designs.

One of the older, and rarer, lanterns in the collection is this REVO Silvergold C13192/S.

The BLEECO Hove Lantern / BLEECO Sunstar Lantern 686 and BLEECO Worthing Bracket in my collection has been restored and documented.

The recent removal of the M1 catenary scheme sparked interest in this type of lighting. Here are the details of a similar, earlier scheme which used to light parts of the A4 in Hounslow.

The two next issues of Public Lighting have been summarised and catalogued. The darkness of the war years is now lifting and the journal is looking towards the future. In particular, Issue 34 listed and described the following pre-war luminaires: Maxill "G", Maxilla Upright, Maxilla Suspension, Brimax Maxilla, Rivercourt, Eclipse, London Minor, London Medium, London Major, Newlands, Granby, Siden, Kempar, Majestic, Heathfield, Circra, Mercra "H", Ranger, Diron, Dilen, County Cadet and County Junior.

As usual, scroll down to the bottom of each summary (Issue 33 and Issue 34) for links to all the adverts.

And to wrap things up: other... a Thorn EMI Alpha 9.

Brief notes and summaries have been added for Public Lighting No. 32 Vol. 9 January-March 1944. The majority of the issue is concerned with the post-war future of street lighting but there's a brief article on the retirement of P. J. Robinson - the man who introduced low-pressure sodium lighting and concrete columns to Liverpool.

The number of advertisements continue to rise with many returing to the publication after being absent during the first years of the war.

More information has come to light about an unidentified swan-neck fitting.

The adverts from Public Lighting #25 (April-June 1942) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

The next catalogue to be tidied up is the Industrial And Street Lighting Fittings And Accessories from the GEC.

The adverts from Public Lighting #26 (July-September 1942) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

And what happened to the original lanterns removed from the O'Connell Street installation in Dublin in the early 1970s? They weren't skipped... they were converted into cocktail tables. See the story on Dublin's page (scroll down to the bottom).

The adverts from Public Lighting #27 (October-December 1942) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

For new pictures of the garden lamps: see REVO Moseley and the BLEECO E66.

The adverts from Public Lighting #28 (January-March 1943) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

I've been sent a collection of pictures, taken in 1990, of the old REVO installation still lighting the streets in Bolton.

The adverts from Public Lighting #29 (April-June 1943) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

The ELECO HW745 in my collection has been restored and documented.

The adverts from Public Lighting #30 (July-September 1943) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

The Wardle Liverpool in my collection has been restored and documented.

A catalogue by Concrete Utilities from 1938 has been added. This illustrated many of the firm's most popular tall concrete column designs and bracekts. (This has allowed the firm's early inventory of concrete columns and brackets to be inventoried in more detail). (Many thanks to Mike Ashworth for the original scans.)

The next catalogue to be tidied up is the Industrial And Street Lighting Fittings And Accessories from the GEC.

One of the Philips MA 50s in my collection has been restored and documented.

A Philips catalogue from the mid-1970s has been added to the site. This includes the incredibly popular MA50, MA60 and M90 range of lanterns.

The Philips MA 90 in my collection has been restored and documented.

And the adverts from Public Lighting #21 (April-June 1941) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

The next catalogue to be tidied up is the Industrial And Street Lighting Fittings And Accessories from the GEC.

And the adverts from Public Lighting #22 (July-September 1941) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

The GEC Z9536M in my collection has been restored and documented.

A GEC catalogue from the late 1950s to early 1960s has now been added to the site.

The adverts from Public Lighting #19 (October 1940) are now online. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for handy links to all the adverts).

And I've started to tidy up and reformat the GEC section. First completed is the catalogue from 1914.

I've updated my links section. If your site has moved then please let me know and I'll put the link back.

The adverts from Public Lighting #16 (January 1940) are also online.

The provenance of the 'strange' GEC Z8256 has now been determined..

The adverts from Public Lighting #17 (April 1940) are also online.

The BTH Amber Mk IV (A10600) in my collection has now been documented.

I've added an image and improved the layout of Peter Rivet's gas lighting in Cambridge.

I've tidied up and compiled relevant lantern information for Falks. This includes a catalogue for their popular Beaufort lanterns.

The AEI Amber MK IV in my collection has now been documented.

I've added some information about a security camera installation in Braintree.

Well worth a listen: The Boring Talks #10: Lampposts.

The Final Report from the MOT Departmental Committee, which was published in 1937, has now been added to the Standards section.

The papers from the APLE Conference 1938 have been read and extensive notes are available.

The adverts from Public Lighting #11 (September 1938) are now online.

The grandson of Keith Blackman has been in touch with memories of the firm and their products. (Again, scroll to the bottom of the page).

I've tidied up and compiled relevant lantern information for Electrical Street Lighting Apparatus.

Lanterns and brackets restored and documented:

• Wall Bracket
• Industria Vectra
• GEC Z8591
• GEC Z8691
• Relite Diadem Major A42.005
• Phosco P125
• Simplex Aries

I've tidied up and compiled relevant lantern information for the Elm Works lantern range.

I've started uploading information about Industria and Whitecroft Road And Tunnel Lighting.

Lanterns and brackets restored and documented:

• ESLA Bi-Multi Group "AL" Two-Way 170°
• ESLA Pole Bracket
• Urbis ZX1 lantern
• Thorn Precinct
• ELECO HW 846 Golden Ray MK VII

Alistair Bell has now colourised the pictures of Blackpool.

Adverts have also been scanned from the 1933 Municipal Directory. These include Patent Up And Down Suspension Gear, Hurricane-Proof Copper Street Lanterns, Gas Lamps For Public Lighting, Everything For Street Lighting, Newbridge Public Lighting Controllers and Lanterns, Reflectors, Swan Necks For Electric Street Lighting. Many thanks to Mike Ashworth for the scans.

Thanks to these new adverts, I've been able to identify one of my previously unknown lanterns as an an Elm Works Parade Lantern.

I've tidied up and compiled relevant lantern information for the ELECO lantern range. This includes reformating and adding photometric information to the catalogues.

Some of the remaining ESLA Bi-Multis in Canterbury have recently been photographed.

A feature from Intertraffic World, written by Lee Gale, about the loss of good design in street lighting, has now been added to the website.

My BTH Amber MK III (SL5698) has been restored and documented.

The adverts from Public Lighting #9 (March 1938) are now online.

I've tidied up and compiled relevant lantern information for the Ediswan lantern range.

The BTH Amber 10600 with replacement bowl in my collection has bow been documented.

The REVO Moseley column in my collection has now been documented.

The papers from the APLE Conference 1937 have been read and extensive notes are available.

The adverts from Public Lighting #7 (September 1937) are now online.

The Richardson Candle in my collection has bow been documented.

I've tidied up and compiled relevant lantern information for the DAVIS lantern range.

The adverts from Public Lighting #5 (March 1937) are now online.

In addition the adverts from Public Lighting #3 (September 1936) have been added.

The GEC Z8611 in my collection has now been documented.

I've tidied up and compiled relevant lantern information into the Credenda and Crompton lantern ranges.

The final lost catalogues are by Atlas, British Lighting Industries, ELECO, Holophane and REVO.

I've started work on a new timeline. The old one was full of trivia and installation information (which I've now moved elsewhere) and, more importantly, I didn't link back to any sources, so it was difficult to determine where the key dates originally came from. So I've started a new timeline which correctly credits its sources. (The old timeline is included at the end.)

I've tidied up and compiled relevant lantern information into the BLEECO and BTH lantern ranges.

The installations section has also changed. Historical installations and references to them are now being compiled.

The adverts from Public Lighting #1 (March 1936) are now online.