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.
Sotonsteve:They are Philips MiniMilewide lanterns, and some of these in Redbridge were early examples of CosmoPolis in Britain.Yeah, Redbridge has been very ahead of its time in terms of CosmoPolis, so I'm not surprised! It's been trialling the Milewide and MH Sapphire since 2006! Over the past two years, it's been replacing large stretches of SON ZX3s with MH Furyos. This seems to have stalled recently though, as I haven't seen any more Furyos be installed since the end of last year! But it looks like it's installing post-top Furyos now - there's those ones that I've pictured on The Drive when a new school was built, and one was installed very recently as a casual replacement for an MA50 which had been crashed into on Chigwell Road.