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CommentPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:00 pm 
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Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:47 am
Saw a lot of these on A31 in Dorset traveling to Cornwall.
Most of them were on in the daytime.


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CommentPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:58 pm 
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asedbergh road 170612 1 copy
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Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:08 pm
column isn't even straight. The Libra itself is possibly the only good thing I can find in this photo.


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CommentPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:00 pm 
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Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:47 am
When I first saw this photo on the gallery page, I thought it was an SGS203 that had lost its canopy and bowl!  :lol:


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CommentPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:54 am 
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rimjhim colden common 120512 copy
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Sun May 20, 2012 5:47 pm
awesome find Steve!


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CommentPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:19 pm 
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Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:18 pm
This image was taken the day after the previous one, showing the installation over the road from the pictured installation which had an SGS203 installed. This obviously means that the new lantern was installed either later that day or early the next day!


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CommentPosted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:48 pm 
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Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:46 pm
Mile End Road just outside my university has started to lose its early 1990s SGS203s for these strange-looking lanterns which are being retrofitted to the existing columns. As you can see, the other side of the road hasn't been done yet, so I reckon these new lanterns must have only been installed over the last few days. The closest match I've found is a Thorn Oxane, but it looks too slender for the lantern pictured. The reason for their installation looks to be due to CCTV cameras being installed and the construction of a new student residence block just a little further down behind where the photo was taken (due to open in September). The columns also look to being having some sort of signage attached to them, as you can see from the fixtures installed on this column. I have also heard rumours that Mile End Road is going to be renamed the "Olympic Boulevard", as it is the route from Central London to the site of this summer's Olympics in Stratford, so maybe the retrofitting and signage may also be to do with that. It's certainly all go here now for the Olympics!


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CommentPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:40 pm 
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Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:08 pm
It looks like it could be an import or made by some small less known lantern manufacturer. I have had a good look and cannot find anything with clips like it.


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CommentPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:11 pm 
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Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:08 pm
Does anyone have any idea what this lantern is? It's a privately-owned (Sainsbury's) lantern installed earlier this year to replace a 7-year-old Kingfisher Lunoide which was damaged by wind, which itself replaced a 1980s SGS203 (one of which can be seen in the background) back in about 2005. The closest matches I've found are the Thorn Jet and Philips Alu-road, but those don't look quite like it either. It looks as if the lantern might have lost its bowl or a piece of its canopy, as it doesn't look complete to me. The side entry adapter which would've held the original SGS203 definitely seems to have gone walkabout.


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CommentPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:49 am 
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:47 am
These lovely old CU concretes are still clinging on around Epping Forest. This image from October 2011 shows two examples with an MA90 and an SGS204. There are some examples behind me with Eleco lanterns installed similar to the ones that I've pictured before, but I didn't get a shot of them as I didn't want to take too many photos like this in case the group I was with thought I was a bit weird! The Urbis Saturns on the High Street behind make for an interesting contrast!


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CommentPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:42 am 
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:37 am
Here's a shot taken back in October 2011 of one of the new Stainton columns with an SGS203 installed that was erected when Mile End Road (running left to right behind the photographer) had a new cycle lane added to it and this junction with Cambridge Heath Road was realigned. Pretty neat, I think, and using the same lantern is pretty good and loyal practice! This was short-lived, however, because the SGS203s you can see on Cambridge Heath Road in the background are now (February 2012) being replaced with post-top Urbis Evolos. The unusual grey building in the background is the Sainsbury's multi-storey car park, in case you're wondering!


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CommentPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:59 am 
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Sunset Streetlights
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:21 am
Dunno if this image is showing... I can't see it anyway :?


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CommentPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:11 pm 
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Gamma 8 sunset
Gamma 8 sunset
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Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:39 pm
Nice image! Where was this taken?


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CommentPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:40 pm 
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Odd wall mounted MI55
Odd wall mounted MI55
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Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:08 am
It's actually an MI26... but all the same: EH?! What's all that about?! And they've mounted it with the lamp cap down, so it'll burn out sooner.


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CommentPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:18 pm 
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Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:28 pm
how has that happened? did the counterbalance rope snap or something?


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CommentPosted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:49 pm 
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aa j11 spur 10 copy
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Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:37 pm
Definitely worth being submitted for POTM October.


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CommentPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:45 pm 
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A1 SOX to be replaced by Airtrace 2s
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Fri May 20, 2011 6:57 pm
Romford has suffered a big invasion of Airtraces - all the MAs and some older SON lanterns such as ZX3s and SGS203s lighting its ring road have been changed over for them. Arc and Iridium casual replacements, however, haven't been changed over, so Havering are obviously hell bent on upgrading its lighting! The old columns (Fabrikats with very long brackets from the 70s) have been reused however, despite the Airtraces' much better optics! I'll get some pictures of them soon!


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CommentPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:41 pm 
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Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:38 pm
In Clifford Road, Walthamstow are a couple of Thorn Alpha 8s (one MKII, pictured, one MKIII, behind the MKII installation, but not pictured as there are still some Alpha 8s of that type surviving around Blackhorse Road) installed on Thorn aluminium columns. Neither of the installations worked when I passed them at night a couple of weeks ago, but there are no new installations on the road which have replaced them, so they can't be abandoned - they probably just need a lamp change but the council has forgotten about them. That's if they are council-owned - this road leads into the rear of a nearby Homebase car park, so they may be privately owned rather than council-owned. Who knows?


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CommentPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:40 pm 
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Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:27 pm
The Itchen Bridge in Southampton, lit with new Urbis Cabrios running CosmoPolis lamps on bespoke LED-lit columns.


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CommentPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:39 pm 
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aitchen bridge 6
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Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:27 pm
The Itchen Bridge in Southampton, lit with new Urbis Cabrios running CosmoPolis lamps on bespoke LED-lit columns. In the foreground are 55W PL-L WRTL Libras.


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CommentPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:54 pm 
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Inverness Lanterns
Inverness Lanterns
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Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:23 pm
With the exception of those two SGS203's, it's an uninperrupted line of Alpha 1's!


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CommentPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:51 pm 
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Inverness Lanterns
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Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:23 pm
Thanks for putting some content into a previously empty folder :D
Looks like the lamp has dropped in that and burnt the bowl through...


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CommentPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:00 pm 
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What came first?
What came first?
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Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:32 am
Yes, both are lit at night. It is quite possible that there used to be a pole bracket lantern there before, and that during the 1970s replacement scheme that it was just left and somehow remained in service, being replaced just like a normal replacement. There is another location in the borough where there is a pole mounted lantern on a road lit with columns, and the pole mounted lantern serves no purpose, yet it is still serviced.


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CommentPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:02 am 
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Future replacements for Burton Stone Lane
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Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:49 am
I don't know... because all the new columns will require the power to be transferred across. I'll have to have a look at the environment around the proposed location of the T columns again.


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CommentPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:54 am 
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Future replacements for Burton Stone Lane
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Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:49 am
The T could mean Transfer, i.e. transfer of the electrics from the old column to the new.


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CommentPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:44 am 
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What came first?
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Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:32 am
Very odd - Sometimes new developments make councils or contractors install lanterns alongside or opposite the new street that are the same as the majority of the rest of the road. So it seems to me that the estate was the reason for the SOX lantern to be installed. As for the ZX1, could another lantern and bracket been used on that telegraph pole before? So the lighting was upgraded a few years ago as the supply was still there? Are they also both lit at night?


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CommentPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:56 am 
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A Dioptrion in Brighouse
A Dioptrion in Brighouse
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Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:51 pm
Thanks. The overhanging tree was a bit of an issue though.


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CommentPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:30 am 
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A Dioptrion in Brighouse
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Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:51 pm
Brilliant shot Chris.


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CommentPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:59 pm 
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Entry 2 (See description)
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Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:54 pm
Thanks mazeteam! :) The Aberystwyth sunsets are amazing, I'll PM you a better one!


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CommentPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 12:13 am 
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Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:54 pm
ooh, nice colours!


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CommentPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:17 pm 
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840 1 (3)
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Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:46 pm
This and all others in this street have now been replaced with black ZX2s running Cosmo lamps. What a difference it makes as night and how better the driving conditions are. Although prehaps not the best performing lantern I will miss the Alpha8 if all are replaced as they were a key lantern in this area as with the MRL6.


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