Some more gems from tonights TSLotA.

Heathrow exiting from tunnel to central area and the Queen's building late 1950s:



Unusual full cut off lanterns on the public viewing area on top of the Queen's Building late 1950s:



Arrivals drop off area LHR early 1960s:



Outside Queen's Building:



Alpha 3s late 1960s again Queen's building central area:



Possibly Terminal 1 1960s:



Road works on the access road from the north access spur, tunnel under runways to left and fluorescent lighting. Late 1950s/early 1960s. This lighting was replaced by Alpha 3s.

The screen-grab with the green open top bus was filmed in Rhyl, North Wales.

Heathrow looked more welcoming back then.

Some more from the last part of TSLotA.

Alpha 3s:



Unidentified lanterns at Heathrow pictured during the mid 1970s security crisis:

Over the past week due to the airport closures, a lot of reports have been taken on a road overlooking Heathrow airport - I kept seeing the same full cut-off Thorn Pilotes!

Also, this week's episode of Waterloo Road featured a close up of a broken post-top lantern which appears to be a GLS tungsten filament lamp. You can see it from 57:12 (i.e. close to the end). Is it a Gamma Six?

The base looks more like a GEC or Eleco product.

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From streetlighting to radio, dance through the night whilst the streetlights are glowing outside.

Looks a bit like a Phosco P107. Hampshire use SON and mercury P107s at many of the county's schools.

Is Waterloo Road filmed in Hampshire then?

Makes me wonder if the outside parts are done in Hampshire and the inside parts are done in London.

What we need to do is look for similar shaped spigots/bases and then work out what the lantern was.

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From streetlighting to radio, dance through the night whilst the streetlights are glowing outside.

It'll be a phosco P107. I have a few of these, and the base casting is pretty much exactly the same.
It's a newer version though, as the right old ones have a hexagonal/octagonal shaped base casting around the spigot.

(I was going to say P106, but the P106 is mercury, the support roads taper outwards at the top, and the lampholder is held within the opening part of the canopy)

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