I have just joined the forum, I have always liked the design of the cast iron electric street lights made by Revo of Tipton, who were located about 3 miles from where I live. My area, the former Urban District of Coseley, had many cast iron Revo street lights, some with ornate swan necks, but in the years after Coseley was split between Dudley and Wolverhampton boroughs, most of the Revo lighting disappeared and the few that remain in Wolverhampton's part of Coseley have ugly 1980s sodium lights on top. Dudley council removed all their borough's cast iron lights about 5 years ago
Not many other councils in the Black Country had cast iron electric lighting, apart from Dudley and Wolverhampton, although the old Sedgley Urban District (also now split between Dudley and Wolverhampton) had just two streets with cast iron Revo lighting. All other early electric lighting was typically concrete, although I made an interesting discovery some time ago.
I was looking at a street in Wordsley between Brierley Hill and Stourbridge on Google Maps and I found that the 2012 image has a very short cast iron street light with a modern sodium bulb. I am familiar with this area and two things I noticed were that all other streets of this age in the Wordsley/Brierley Hill/Kingswinford area had concrete lighting and as the street is from the early 50s, the lamp post appears too old because of its short height.
I have since found two streets about two miles north (also in the former Brierley Hill Urban District) that had the same short street lights until around 2015. Although some areas of Wolverhampton also had very short Revo lamp posts, these were pre-war and they had thicker bases compared to these I have recently discovered. Weren't all post-war street lights meant to be higher?
I have attached links to the Google Maps images. You will need to select the 2012 views to see the old street lights.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.47769 ... 312!8i6656https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.50363 ... 312!8i6656https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.50463 ... 312!8i6656