96. Gibfield Lane, Belper. Located in a fenced-off compound housing an electrical substation are the remains of a Revo C14408T 'Bell Top' lantern mounted to a spalling Stanton 7 concrete column. The lantern has probably not worked for a long time - it is missing its bowl completely and the lamp and refractor are broken.
As the lantern would only to be switched on when an engineer was working on the substation at night, a manual hand-switch has been fixed to the outside of the column:
See also - Survivors 65B (Butterley Hill, Ripley), 65C (Peasehill, Ripley), 103C (Nottingham Road, Somercotes), 150B (Milnhay Road, Langley Mill) and 171B (Off Church Street, Kilburn).
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