109FB. St Hilda's Street, Sherburn, North Yorkshire With thanks to Dwight for informing me of these Survivors. Installed along this road are a number of CU Phosco P226 lanterns for 55 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps, all of which still seemed to be running such lamps in September 2024, rather than being converted to run LED lamps instead. These lanterns (and their associated columns) are likely to date back to the 1980s, but all are in good condition.
The first installation to be seen when accessing the road from High Street is attached to a pole bracket. At the time of photographing, there looked to be a fault with the underground electricity supply to this light, as the surrounding footway had been excavated by a contractor working for Northern Power Grid - the electricity supplier for the Yorkshire area.
The pole bracket pre-dates the P226, and is likely to have been installed as part of an earlier lighting scheme along this road.
The small circular fuse box is likely to contain two fuses - one for the incoming live conductor; the other, for the outgoing neutral - this being the standard method of isolation when the bracket was fitted. Notice the rather rudimentary earthing arrangements that exist too.
A Royce Thompson Oasis 1000 photocell, dating from the early 2000s, switches the lantern automatically. Some sort of putty has been placed around the lantern's bracket entry point as a way of sealing the area from dirt and moisture ingress. By and large, this seems to have worked, with the bowl showing minimal signs of particle accumulation. The P226 features a deeper canopy than that of sister lantern the P224, as the lamp control gear is housed within the lantern.
The other examples were all attached to dedicated lighting columns; this 6 m Abacus tubular steel was first.
Unusually, the maintenance number is applied to the lantern's canopy, rather than to the more common position of the column shaft.
Next up was an example fitted to a British Steel column.
The photocell here is a Zodion SS4, which is (potentially) the lantern's original photocell.
A GEC Z9530 (the version of the Z9532 with the lamp control gear mounted remotely) attached to a Stanton 1805 concrete column was also to be seen on this road.
With the photocell here being a Charles Endirect CEX1000, the lantern would have received some maintenance attention within a few years prior to these pictures being taken.
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