Lampman:I quite like the lanterns but the columns are just terrible and the brackets just look messy and cheap.Yeah, the lanterns are beautiful, but they'd look much better installed on cast iron or ex-gas installations. Yes, the columns are very nasty and look like cheap CCTV camera columns with those brackets plonked on top! As for the brackets, they are very obscure and remind me of those horrible brackets you see in West Sussex with Sapphires, but a mirror image of them! Not Redbridge's finest hour, but I suppose they were short on money and wanted to improve the streetscene somewhat.
I would agree that the lanterns are beautiful and that these installations are such a shame! Not only are the columns on a budget, but as you both say, the brackets are horrendous.
Post-top Furyos, anyone?There is something not quite right about the way they have been installed. Furyos are now the standard lantern for Westminster (instead of black Iridiums), and they look really stylish down there. Unfortunately, Redbridge has got the colour scheme wrong here; white columns and blue Furyos. I'm also not liking the post-top - they look far better installed side entry in Westminster IMO.
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this is pretty bad as lantern is just too big for the bracket.
I don't actually mind this installation (as I always associate Residiums with SOX even though most of the time they are of course PL-L!) but perhaps the FGS223 would have been more suitable than the FGS224.