Going back to an earlier post I made about a concrete column near me being replaced - this is a close-up picture of the two columns... and that peeling concrete has been like that for a while.
DSC01367.JPGThis road, Huntington New Lane, has a few new columns that have popped up... and I think there may be mroe to come, as a few of the concretes are getting lazy and leaning backwards toward a field behind the columns.
Blimey, it almost looks as if the column has a flourish at the top where it meets the bracket, whereas in reality it's the thinning concrete on the bracket that has created that effect!
A while back in my area there was a spate where seemingly random concrete columns with no sign of any damage or wear and tear would have a metal column plonked next to them all over the place! I was always puzzled as most of the columns didn't seem to have anything wrong with them but they must have failed some sort of structural assessment I guess.
On another nearby street, Barfield Road, a concrete there has considerable spalling around the join of the column and bracket - possibly the concrete seal is breaking away. A few columns on from that is a concrete column base but no replacement column. However, youths are a nuisance in some of the streets in this area and so the crews are wary of entering the area.All the more reason to make sure the streets in that area are lit well I think!