Derby's Street Lighting PFI Contract

Marshaw Close, Mickleover

The columns being removed on this road were:

Seq. No. Lamp Number Location Lamp Type Watt Isolation Point
1 90604 ADJ 22 PENDLEBURY SXPL3 35  
2 90605 OS NO 8 SXPL3 35  
3 90606 ADJ NO 24 SXPL3 35  
4 90607 OS NO 32 SXPL3 35  
5 90608 F/PATH ADJ NO 46 SXPL3 35  

The following photographs were taken on the 4th April 2010 - Easter Sunday.

The columns being removed here all supported GEC Z5698U lanterns.

The lampholder in the second lantern appeared to have worked loose from its fixing bracket, which caused the lamp to hang lower within the lantern than normal.

The next lantern along was in an altogether better condition than the previous example was:

Notice the 'SL' abbreviation sprayed on the adjacent carriageway; this shows the column installation teams where to place the new columns:

A general view looking back up the road:

I had previously photographed the lantern on the footpath to Bowland Close in 2007, when the photocell had developed a fault that caused the lantern to dayburn.


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