Seq. No.	Lamp Number	Location	Lamp Type	Watt	Isolation Point
1	36542	OS TOILETS	SXPL3	35
2	36543	OS 11 MANOR FARM	SXPL1	35
3	36544	OS NO 14	SXPL3	35	Y - ISOLATES 102295
4	36545	OS NO 23	SXPL3	35
5	36546	OS NOS 29/31	SXPL3	35
6	36547	OS NOS 37/39	SXPL3	35
7	36548	OS NO 49	SXPL3	35
8	36549	OS NOS 57/59	SXPL3	35
9	36550	OS NOS 42/44	SXPL3	35
10	36551	ON GREEN ENT TO PK	SXPL3	35	Y - ISOLATES 27666, 27667, 27669, 36552, 36557, 36558, 36561 AND 36563.
11	36552	IN FOOTPATH O/S NOS 83/85	SXPL3	35
12	36553	OS NOS 58/60	SXPL3	35
13	36554	OS NOS 111/113	SXPL3	35
14	36555	OS NO 103	SXPL3	35
15	36556	OS NOS 84/86	SXPL3	55
16	36557	OS NOS 139/141	SXPL2	35
17	36558	O/S NO 102	SXPL1	35
18	36559	OS NOS 147/149	SXPL3	35
19	36560	OS NO 159	SXPL3	35
20	36561	JNC FENTON RD	SXPL2	35
21	36562	OS NOS 167/169	SXPL3	35
22	36563	OS NO 138	SXPL2	35
23	36564	OS NOS 175/177	SXPL3	35
24	36565	OS NO 191	SXPL3	35
25	36555	OS NO 197	SXPL1	35
26	97895	OS NO 205	SXPL3	35
27	102294	JUNC UTTOXETER RD	FL	8
28	102295	O/S NO 14 ON L36544	FL	8

The following photographs were taken on Saturday,12th February 2011.

The first new column on this road is installed, just out of shot in the photograph below, on the left-hand side of the road.

A 6 m tubular steel column supporting a WRTL Arc lantern running 70 Watt SON-T was the first actual street light on the road. This column was installed in the mid-2000s, when the new Mickleover Library was constructed. Previously, there had been a sleeved Stanton 7 concrete column installed here. The old column was fitted with a (1950s'-'60s) direction sign indicating the location of some adjacent public toilets. The sign was not attached to the new column as the toilets had been demolished in order to make way for the library building. The supply for the toilets was also connected from this column.

The new columns installed on this road are 7 m in height; this is perhaps why the 6 m column was not retained for this scheme.

The following column was still a 5 m Stanton concrete, however. The lantern fitted was a mid-1980s' Thorn Beta 5 35 Watt SOX lantern. Incidentally, most of the outgoing lanterns along here were Beta 5s.

Another 6 m column followed, although this pre-dated the arrival of the library building by several years. Curiously, another Beta 5 is fitted, even though 6 m columns would normally have been fitted with 55 Watt SOX lanterns; for example, the Thorn Beta 2. The above inventory records suggest that illuminated sign 102295 was fitted to the original column (which supported a top-entry lantern), but a dedicated post had since been provided and the sign plate and light fitting had been attached to that instead. A note for the previous column's records suggests that the lantern was converted to photocell operation at some point; possibly in 1984. Prior to this, the lantern may either have been operated on time switch control, or group-switched from elsewhere.

The signlight bracket was surprisingly rusty, even though it was probably no more than ten years old when removed. The signlight here is a Forest City LA428. The previous column-mounted signlight was fitted on Monday, 12th August 1996. It is unknown as to whether the illumination on the sign was first provided then, or whether this signlight replaced an older, damaged unit.

A shorter tubular steel column, supporting a top-entry Beta 5, was next. The original column 36544 (the column pictured above) may have been of an identical design to this column. The lantern had been fitted with a Royce Thompson SC1000 photocell at some point since the commencement of the PFI. The lantern's ignitor the silver-coloured cylinder above the lamp) can be seen in the close-up photograph. Once the column had been decommissioned, this lantern was rescued into preservation, along with the other top-entry Beta 5 that once existed on Vicarage Road - details of this installation are on the next page.

Even privately-owned lighting installations were not safe from the PFI - though, if this old gas lantern (converted to electricity and running a tungsten lamp) and cast iron column are removed as part of these works, I think the owner might be a little "annoyed"!

Back to concrete columns for the next few installations, and this particular column was the only concrete to be fitted with a Philips MI 26.

The lantern's bowl was secured with a long cable tie.

A new column position had been selected opposite the Catterick Drive junction.

The work to sleeve these columns occurred in the late 1990s (after 1997, as my inventory records still have the columns listed as unsleeved) - this Beta 5 would be contemporary to when the column was sleeved.

The adjacent BT / GPO wood pole looked decidedly elderly, judging by the style of the insulators and finial at the top of the pole.

The next old/new columns were situated outside a house that had never had a driveway built into the front garden (the previous occupant didn't drive, so this isn't surprising). Had a driveway ever been constructed (or if one is built in the future), the column's position would require altering. Prior to sleeving, this column was fitted with a top-entry Beta 5.

This may have been why the next column was a newer tubular steel, and was situated on the central boundary line between two properties - both have driveways.

This remotely-geared Beta 5 was at least thirty years old when removed - Thorn changed the stainless steel bowl clip (as seen here) to a plastic toggle in 1981.

A house that had lain derelict for many years provided a rather unusual backdrop for the next column. Ironically, by the time that these columns were replaced, demolition on the property had finally commenced.

This column was once the group-switching point for several other installations in the vicinity. The column may have remained the supply point for these columns until they were removed, but the group-switching itself would have been decommissioned long ago.

An Abacus base-hinged column supported a Beta 5 that lit an adjacent footpath.

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