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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 3:45 pm 
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Spotted this today!

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Sorry for coming back to you late on this. What age would you say the building is? That might give an indication as to how old the ESLA is.


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:17 pm 
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Spotted this lovely survivor in Nottinghamshire yesterday - looks as if it has had a bit of TLC in recent years so not sure how much longer it'll be around, but was still working in April 2014.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.93795 ... 312!8i6656



UPDATE: This is now very much a survivor as it is still in nightly service in March 2016 despite there having been a mass conversion to LED in the area. I suspect this is because it is a top-entry lantern, necessitating a sleeve or more likely new column to accommodate the side-entry LED lanterns now being used.


That's excellent.  Wouldn't it be nice if it could be saved column and all?  If only.


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 9:01 pm 
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From a British Pathe film entitled 'New Motorway Through Woodford' that shows views of the old A11 - the clapperboards refer to a Thames Television news programme dated 3/9/71 - lighting on the A11;

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:24 pm 
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This column has always intrigued me, for almost 15 years that I've remembered traveling past it I have never seen it on. I'm not sure if it's owned by the council or if it's just a fixture a prior resident saved and put up.

This building has two fluorescent fixtures mounted to the side of it, they date from when this street was rebuilt around 1960. They used to be complemented by vertical fluorescent lanterns mounted post-top on columns (similar to the ones that lasted so long in Cambridge), but they were changed for GEC turtles, probably sometime in the 70s. The two lanterns pictured are out and I don't believe they get any power.


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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2016 8:27 pm 
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Spotted this pristine dual-bracket concrete column, with matching SOX lanterns in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire. I haven't actually been there though, so I'm not sure the 2011 image is still accurate today.


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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2016 9:57 pm 
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Whilst out and about in Shoreditch today, I stumbled across a small access road for an industrial area called Cottons Gardens, which has a very rare Eleco HW922 lantern (complete with Telensa Tele-cell) among some SGS203s. I imagine the road was probably lit with more of these, but they were casually replaced with the SGS203s over the years. Both types of lantern are quite rare now in Hackney, so to see them still hanging on in 2016 here is somewhat of a miracle!

http://www.ukastle.co.uk/discussion/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=20&image_id=3185


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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2016 3:03 pm 
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Relatively unspoiled set of concretes, some with Amber Minors / early Beta 5s installed in Wilmslow, Cheshire

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.34188 ... !1e1?hl=en


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EON is rapidly replacing the until recently very extensive SOX and SON (and all other types) across Lincolnshire with LED.  The TRT Aspect is the seemingly universal replacement of choice.  Columns and brackets are almost always retained as is - even concrete ones.  The whole county is due to be completed by March 2017!

I managed to capture a shot of one of a pair of 1950s GEC Z9450s on Morton Terrace, Gainsborough, Lincs before they were removed today.

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nightwatch wrote:
Relatively unspoiled set of concretes, some with Amber Minors / early Beta 5s installed in Wilmslow, Cheshire

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.34188 ... !1e1?hl=en



Hi Nightwatch,

That is a lovely installation. I do like the old concretes especially with Beat 5s/Amber minors. How are they controlled?

Regards,

Andrew.


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Just had another look and spotted Photocells on top of the lanterns.


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