An identical example followed for the second column. The imposing structure of St Mary's Church is visible in the background.

These columns may have originally supported side-entry 80 Watt MBF lanterns, but were later converted to SOX during the energy crises in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The adaptors for the top-entry Beta 5s would have been fitted at the same time, and certainly, in the case of this column at least, the metalwork was repainted.

The next column had resorted to supporting a side-entry lantern; in this case, a remotely-geared Beta 5 from the late 1980s or early 1990s.

A Zodion SS55 photocell detector was visible on the Beta 5's canopy.

Curiously, the next column was another mirror image of the previous installation. The building in the background here used to be a nursery - I ought to know this, as I attended it, back in the dim and distant past!

The telltale sign that this lantern is remotely-geared are the two orange-coloured wires emerging from the lampholder; an integrally-geared lantern would have a single pink-coloured and either one or two blue-coloured wires.

An entirely new column position was introduced as part of the PFI scheme. As can be seen, the new lanterns were still to be fitted at the time of photographing.