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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:18 am 
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I've found some more old pictures of York that may be worth a look:


1974, the end of Coney Street by the lorad mayors house. on the building directly in front of the camera, look just below the 2nd floor window as the building curves the corner - there is a wall bracket and GEC Z8430 installed
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

Nessgate in 1965 (nessgate is the corner of ousegate, where the bridge with the revo caerlions are installed, and clifford street that leads to the tower), and right up in the top left corner is another wall bracket with GEC Z8430... but what is the lantern on the traffic island?
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

Parliament Street in the early 1900's, and notice the carbon arc lantern
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

Parliament Street in the 1950's/60's - notice the catenary-mounted lantern in the bottom left of the picture, is this a GEC?
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

the cinema in fossgate. what is the lantern at the top though? (there is another to the right of the picture) today, the lantern is gone, but evidence of the bracket remains
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

Clifford Street in 1987. the wall brackets are present, but the white tops to the lanterns and their elongated shape would suggest that GEC Z8600's have now been installed
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

Walmgate Bar in the 50's/60's - note the revo monarch column to the top left... is that an open sodium lantern fitted?
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

... and possibly from the same time is this picture of Goodramgate (looking towards the Cross Keys pub). The revo monarch column has the same type of lantern as in the walmgate picture. The column and bracket are still in use today, but a Holophane QSM is in place.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

and finally, although the only lantern in view is a 'windsor' type lantern - this picture is mainly shown here for the unconventional method of structural support for the building!
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/pics/lookbac ... ing_Press/

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a bit on the snow, from last week

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8720401 ... er/?ref=mr
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Been out and about in Leeds today. There's still some gems to be found out there.

First is this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,1,-13.83

It may be a GR150/200 but this evening, I saw the column from the slip road behind it with the lantern lit. The refractors let no light out the sides and the bowl appears wider at the bottom. It reminded me of the Rotherham SLI's.

Secondly:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,0,-15.09

I was surprised to spot the nostalgic glow of SOX through a cloudy bowl. This is a gem, last one in Leeds that I know of and I may attempt to save it. Anyone know what it is? :oops:

Thirdly:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,0,-15.25

What's that poking out of the top of this bus I wonder?

Another one:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,1,-29.08

Unsleeved and these still survive. Not sure if I can save these gems though. There's a mixture of Alpha 4's, MA90's and these things.


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The first one is a GEC, the second one looks like an older GEC the others appear to be either BTH or AEI Ambers.

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Been out and about in Leeds today. There's still some gems to be found out there.

First is this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,1,-13.83

It may be a GR150/200 but this evening, I saw the column from the slip road behind it with the lantern lit. The refractors let no light out the sides and the bowl appears wider at the bottom. It reminded me of the Rotherham SLI's.


I've been under that loads of times. It is noted as being a special lantern - but I don't know what it is!

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Secondly:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,0,-15.09

I was surprised to spot the nostalgic glow of SOX through a cloudy bowl. This is a gem, last one in Leeds that I know of and I may attempt to save it. Anyone know what it is? :oops:


Looks like a Phosco P152 or similar. It's either a Phosco or Eleco (as their designs can be similar), as there are similar ones in Norton on Derwent.

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Thirdly:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,0,-15.25

What's that poking out of the top of this bus I wonder?

Possibly a Revo Dalek. The bus is worthy of note too: K9 YCL - it was THE FIRST Alexander Royale / Volvo Olympian ever to be produced, and this was the first generation initial prototype. It was built for Yorkshire Coastliner (hence the registration YCL), and was notable for having one-piece front windscreens and upsweep front window wipers (as opposed to 2-piece split windscreens and side-sweep wipers on later versions). In it's Coastliner days, it also carried a large silver and blue crown motif on the radiator grille, and the word ROYALE emblazoned along the rear. Sadly, it no longer sports the original features that made it unique (as replacement parts have been required over the years), and so only the registration marks it out as different.

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Another one:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,1,-29.08

Unsleeved and these still survive. Not sure if I can save these gems though. There's a mixture of Alpha 4's, MA90's and these things.

Looks like it may be a GEC Z9450, the elderly precursor to the popular Z9454/64 series

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Over here, I have only made sporadic checks over the last few days. My mum is off this week and so I'm hoping this is a quiet nothing-doing week, including friday which is my sign-on day and also exactly 4 weeks since the first of the Wheldrake columns were pulled out.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:33 am 
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I have added some more snow pictures.

gallery/album.php?album_id=34

The images between these two pictures are from the 2nd of december
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There are some nice pics in there, and one I like of some local K-Lux's


And some massive icicles I found at a private undisclosed location
- the one that I put by my bike is now in my garden as an ice sculpture
841 842 843 844


There are 9 pictures for the 5th of December, between these two images (includes picture of the frozen river ouse)
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And finally some pics from today, the 8th.
Highlights:
(the first may be of interest)
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Lockwood, Kirklees. The Alpha 4 ajacent to the railway station has been replaced by a post topped Arc, it has to be noted that the Alpha 4 last worked about 2 years ago and that there is a bit of the bowl missing too.

In Holmfirth the snicket / ginnel which leads to the local Co-Op the SON DW Windor's are pretty poor at rendering enough light to spead a good sizable distance as half of the snicket / ginnel was in complete darkness, had the lanterns been fitted with MH lamps then it would be brighter.

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I saw the new QSS's that have been installed in Coppergate today, and they have RF nodes attached. My guess is that they are add-ons to the remote control group that comprises of lanterns in Spurriergate, Coney Street, Market Street, New Street, St Helens Square, Lendal, and Museum Street. they run CDM lamps and replaced SON GEC Z8600's (one of which had a dead lamp inside, and another had a cable gland attached through the side of the lantern body with the supply cable entering through that, as opposed to the bracket tube). I am expecting other streets to have new lanterns soon, such as Piccadilly, Walmgate, Fossgate (possibly), Davygate, Goodramgate, Colliergate and Kings Square, Gillygate, and possibly Rougier Street... all these streets originally had GEC Z8430's running 250-400w MBF lamps on the hoop style custom built wall brackets, replaced in the late 1970's or early 80's by GEC Z8600's - and so they are in the same 'set' of lighting as the roads which now have QSS's fitted.
I seem to recall having noted a casual replacement in the city centre, where the new lantern is a QSS running CDM - so it may be that CDM is the new standard for the city centre. I hope so anyway, as it'll banish the ghastly SON away from the busy streets! I have been seeing a few lanterns recently in random places where a lamp replacement has occured, and the new lamp is CDO-TT.

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Part of Westgate in Wakefield, the Sapphires there used to run SON, they now appear to run MH because of the crisp white light. Further up, the Alpha 8's still run SON, the city centre hasn't been fully covered yet.

Tomorrow Penistone, Barnsley and part of the Holme Valley will be scanned of any changes.

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Penistone, the road leading to the railway station has a serise of side entry-post topped Arc's running MH, the rest of the town is lit by SON. Except for a teeny weeny section near to Tesco's and where the market used to be which now runs MH.

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Back over here, and I walked by my old house today. It was at night and so I don't have a full view of what has changed... but, the column directly opposite my old house no longer has a QSM fitted - there is now a QSS that isn't working. The QSM that had been fitted was a first generation syracause, and so had magnetic gear, so I doubt the lantern failed. I could see some sort of shadow, so I suspect that one of the 'locals' visiting one of the more notorious neighbours may have crashed into the column - the old column has then been sliced above the base and the new one plonked in but hasn't been connected yet. I will await to see what light is given out when the lantern is powered up, but I won't be happy if it's white light!... considering we moved from that house and in the later years I was wanting a white light source along that bit of the road.

The night scouts could do with checking the roads in Huntington and Monks Cross areas, as there's now a few SOX lanterns running reddish-orange, red only, or just out with the occaisional flicker.

In Yearsley Grove, columns 1 and 3 have been repaired - neither had been operating for a while. Both of these columns are Stanton 7's with swan necks and GEC 'nightwatch' type top entry SOX lanterns fitted, and are controlled by timeclocks. column 1 has had the clock slip out of sync a couple of times in the last year, and column 3 had it happen once too. Both lanterns are now quite early switchers, and are fully warmed up to full yellow SOX glow before the main road columns are switching on. The door lock on column 3 must have seized solid, because there is a chunk of concrete missing on the base of the column, and the door is only being held in place due to it being a bit of a tight fit. I had a look inside, and there is a standard Venner MSQP time timeswitch inside it.

At the moment, I am bikeless - at least until thursday. My Saracen is now in awaiting a new gear shifter, and my ex-rochdale home-build bike (the black one) is out of service as the bearings went in the wheel again. I know what the problem is, there is a small metal wall inside the axle cavity of the wheel - and this is supposed to hold the bearings in place. but one part of it has broken free, and so if I put any weight on the wheel (such as when cycling), then this bearing wall breaks free and the balls slip out of place. I did manage to check some areas for mercury replacements, but the route that would normally take 40-50 mins on a bike took 2 hours walking it - not helped by all this damn ice THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY! Lendal Bridge still has it's mercury, as does a street or two off the A19 near rawcliffe, and Battle Garth in the city centre. I haven't checked New Earswick, and can't really do it until the ice melts due to my normal exit route being iced over. I haven't checked rawcliffe itself yet either this week, and I'll need a lot of time to walk through there as it takes nearly an hour to get to the mecury-lit streets on foot. Hopefully the normal replacement crew are still on cells for the next few days until I get a working bike!
I can't check Wheldrake either, because the buses only go there every hour, and there's only 13 minutes between the out-bound bus drops off and the return bus picks up... this is nowhere near long enough to check Derwent Park, and 1h13 is way too long to be in the village. I need about 20-25 minutes to check the roads and get pictures... so it'll have to wait.

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