I had been meaning to reply to this thread sooner, but I had forgotten where I was storing my photos. Edinburgh still has a large amount of ageing concrete stock, some of which find the freezing Scottish winters very taxing. A sizeable chunk of the stock is gradually spalling away. One such street, Eton Terrace, had 15ft CU stock dating for the early 60s (or possibly late 50s) and many columns were in an alarming state of spalling, but none worse than column EFY7, which had two enormous concrete splits the entire length of the column. This street, along with its neighbours, had its entire lighting replaced by designer Sugg stock a few years ago, but not before one of the old columns failed and fell onto a car, but less than a year after (this I learned from my great aunt who lives nearby). Google Street view caught Eton Terrace a matter of months prior to the new lighting going in, this I've deduced because EFY7 is missing, and has been casually replaced by steel 5m column in grey primer.
I had mentioned on
StreetlightingUK and
Edinburgh Streetlighting that City Of Edinburgh Council were extremely lucky that nobody was hurt in the incident or that no-one was in the car that broke the column's fall, and should take the tragedy that happened in London as huge wake up call to stop neglecting their streetlighting. I took three photographs of the split column in Eton Terrace to email to the Council's streetlighting department because I was so shocked by it. That was in 2005. I received an acknowledgement email back, but otherwise it was a dead letter. I have attached my photos of column EFY7 to this post.
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