Some interesting car park lighting on the Isle of Thanet!
Waitrose in Ramsgate is lit with double bracket concrete columns with Philips MIs installed. There are also some single bracket versions installed around the perimeter of the car park. I doubt if they're MI50s because SOX is effectively outlawed for car parks now, so I presume they may be either MI55s or MI57s. The columns look quite new as the concrete still looks pale, so I presume they may have been installed toward the tail end of concrete column production, probably the late 80s or early 90s. Certainly very unusual indeed!
LinkThis retail park was constructed throughout 2005 and 2006 and completed in early 2007 and has been lit with double-bracket Thorn Civics. Interesting to see Civics on the Thanet at all really, as the Arc is now the preferred lantern of choice.
LinkSome very strange lanterns light the Westwood Cross retail park, constructed in 2003 and 2004 and opened in 2005. I thought they may be DW WIndsor models as they look very similar to the Rio lantern, but the lanterns look way too large and conical for them to be Rios. Can anybody properly identify them?
LinkFinally, some frankly pretty ugly installations light this footpath leading from the car park, constructed in 2007 and opened in early 2008. You can also just about see some DW Windsor Rios lighting the car park itself in the background. Just as a side note, if you pan 90 degrees clockwise, you'll also see a lone surviving GR150 on an Eleco concrete column with a very long sleeve (there used to be more of these, but they've been replaced over the years by the various SON lanterns you see on the road). If anyone can identify those ugly-looking lanterns, I'll be very grateful!
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