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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:45 pm 
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Unfortunaly its not on GSV but its next to the Chesterfield Canal on the Cookoo Way. The lanern is a Beta 5 but the bracket is an old Revo one and is still in good nick today.

I have found a photo but its not mine.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:15 pm 
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Is the bracket in the last picture the same as this?

As for the flying Eleco on the last page methinks it's been photoshopped :twisted:


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:58 pm 
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Aye.

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http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 2,,1,14.51

I think this may be a Stanton column - but it's the only one like this I have seen in York... ah if only it still had the original bracket!

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After looking though the paper today i noticed these 8 privately owned fluorescent lanterns which survive on the City of London school. I'm not sure exactly what they are but i would guess they could be Richardson Candles. They all seem to be working.

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Goodness!

This reminds me that I should see if I can find some older pics of York's Theatre Royal - because I'm sure in my younger days that I recall fluorescent columns on the front somewhere....

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:58 pm 
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Defiantly a blast from the past there, wasn't there a wall mounted version too as I recall reading something that Revo produced which was wall mounted.

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This describes the  Richardson candles. Revo did produce another wall mounted fluorescent as did Siemens.

The picture from Lampman may show GEC Z8480 lanterns, it is not clear enough to tell - but there are no finials as the GEC normally has.


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Lincolnshire has mercury still although this is at a recently reopened railway: Clicky

On the plaform building itself is two AC Ford 848's (top entry) on cast iron wall brackets along with a couple of GEC's. At the North Thoresby end is WRTL 2600's on swan neck columns, its very possible that they run SON or for that matter MBF.

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Yesterday's fabulous lantern meet involved a long trip for a few of us, so with that in mind, I though it would be a great opportunity to bring a camera and see what relics I could find on the way.

Although it's now accepted that old-school main-road fluorescents have died off, there has always been speculation as to whether some authorities are still running old-school side-road fluorescents. I haven't yet been able to track down the side-road fluorescents that apparently still exist in Chelmsford (according to my contact) or even determine whether they are of the old type or the new type. But it turns out I didn't need to go as far away as Chelmsford to find some old-school side-road fluorescents. The village of Great Cornard, just nineteen miles away from Colchester, still runs some side-road fluorescents, and now we have pictures!

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On a fantastic summer's morning, I tracked down this lantern running two 2ft 40w fluorescent tubes.

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A close-up of the same lantern, which has been painted 'Suffolk Green'. The ends of the two fluorescent tubes can be seen inside the bowl.

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And just around the corner from the above lantern was this identical lantern, raising the possibility that the village may be hiding even more of these relics!

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The village of Great Cornard has stubbornly stuck to white light over the years, including this road of Thorn Beta Nines! In fact many of Great Cornard's 'distributor'-style roads are lit by Thorn Beta Nines mounted on telegraph pole brackets, meaning the village retains dozens and dozens of them. They seem to be everywhere you turn! This is a great discovery for me after my failure to save Clacton's two examples from destruction. I believe Great Cornard is run by a Parish Council, hence the survival of such old fluorescent lanterns and the numerous Beta Nines.

On passing through Great Whelnetham in Suffolk, I was so distracted by this pole bracket-mounted top-entry Phosco P107 that I missed these rare lanterns on the other side of the road!

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Up into Leicestershire, and the Leicester Forest East Services offered a convenient stopping place to get a picture of these GEC Z8534/6 turtles that light the M1. With the demise of the GEC flat-glass turtles on the M25, it sounds like this section of the M1, and a small section of the M6 near Wigan (although I haven't been up that way for a while) are the last remaining stretches of motorway to be lit by turtles?

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Once in Nottingham, a tip-off from Claire about the existence of this magnificent white-painted Siemens Kuwait for 5ft 80w fluorescent tubes made a short detour on the way back to Nick's inevitable! Having ruled the road in their heyday, it is a great shame that surviving installations of these hulks can be counted on one hand...and with fingers to spare!

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It was getting late in the day when I arrived, but the bright sunlight was still shining on this Siemens Kuwait lantern and also dramatising the clouds behind. The harsh lighting seemed to enhance the presence of this magnificent beast!

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The intact Kuwait is one of a pair of Kuwait lanterns that once used to light the grounds of the Mason's Arms pub in Hucknall.

So did anyone else spot anything unusual that they hadn't spotted before on their long trips yesterday?


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