The majority of the outgoing roadway columns along this road comprised sleeved Stanton 7 concretes; the sleeving being undertaken in the 1990s. Beta 5s were also used as the replacement lanterns on all of these columns.

Another footpath, another Abacus column:

The replacement column was also hinged, as vehicular access to the lantern would be difficult.

One of the outgoing columns was a 5 m tubular steel; installed in the mid-2000s. A WRTL Arc lantern, running a 70 Watt CDO-TT lamp, was fitted; this was extremely glary after nightfall.

Another concrete column then followed.

A 6 m column had replaced the installation located near the shops; this column was itself due to be replaced with a 7 m column.

A Thorn Beta 2 55 Watt SOX lantern was fitted to the outgoing column.

I had previously photographed the next column almost a year earlier, when Fenton Road was undergoing relighting. I later discovered that this column was actually located on Vicarage Road; thus, it survived into 2011.

Although the column had been sleeved, the side-entry bracket had been adapted to accommodate a top-entry Beta 5. Prior to sleeving, the columns were fitted with the same top-entry lanterns, so this lantern might actually pre-date the sleeving. The lantern's ignitor (silver-coloured cylinder above the lamp) can be seen - this is a replacement, and may have been fitted on Wednesday, 14th February 1996. The photocell was replaced at the same time, although the Royce Thompson Monostar 1000 cell that the lantern is seen fitted here would have been fitted later.

The replacement column appears to tower over its outgoing equivalent in the photograph below!

The outer bulb of the lamp fitted in this lantern was starting to blacken when the lantern was previously photographed. The blackening was worse now, but had not completely covered the surface.

This lantern was saved into the Collection on Friday, 11th March 2011. Click here for photographs.

Not all of the new columns were installed adjacent an old column - the example shows such an occurrence.

A short cul-de-sac leading off the main part of Vicarage Road would see two new columns installed, when there had previously only been one.

The outgoing column was situated at the end of the road.

Returning back to the main part of the road, another concrete column could be seen.

A fairly recent (early 2000s) replacement came in the form of this Stainton tubular steel column. Again, a deep-bowled Beta 5 was fitted.

A 5 m hinged column supporting a Philips MI 26 was installed on the footpath to Dresden Close. Numbered 129627, this column post-dates my inventory data; thus making it no more than fourteen years old when it was removed.

The MI 26's GRP canopy had noticeably weathered in this time, however.

For variety, a shallow-bowled Beta 5 was fitted to the next column.

A length of insulation tape had been used to secure the bowl to the lantern's canopy.

The final column before the road once again became Fenton Road sported another deep-bowled example.

The lamp fitted in this lantern had failed - after nightfall, the electrodes glowed but the rest of the arc tube remained unlit. Given that replacement of the column wasn't far away, a relamp at this late stage seems unlikely.

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