109G. Coach Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire With thanks to Dwight for informing me of these Survivors. Attached to a 25 ft (8 m) Stewart & Lloyd tubular steel column is a GEC Z8430CM lantern, designed originally to run mercury vapour (MBF) lamps, with the previous Z8430 incarnation being designed for earlier MA-type lamps, but in all likelihood, this example will run a high pressure sodium (SON) lamp in the modern era. Also of note on this road is another GEC product - this time, a Z8896, which was designed for lower wattage MBF lamps, and may have run such a lamp at the time of photographing.

The Z8430CM installation features the classic 'uplift' bracket, complete with support webbing beneath.

A glass bowl surrounds the lamp, allowing the lantern to retain a degree of newness.

The bowl retaining catch no longer works effectively, resulting in a cable tie being wrapped around it and the bracket to hold everything in place.

The Z8896 is attached to a GEC-made short outreach wall bracket a little further south.

A Royce Thompson Oasis 2000 photocell dating from the mid-2000s controls the lantern's operation.

The electricity supply emerges from beneath the ground, and terminates into this cast iron enclosure (through the left-hand conduit), which appears to be made by "BL Callender". The outgoing supply then exits the enclosure using the right-hand conduit.

This then enters a separate control box, also made by GEC, which will contain the lamp control gear. A multi-core flat cable (with the earth conductor installed behind as a separate cable) then links the box to the photocell initially, before returning to connect the feed from the control gear to the lamp.

Unlike the Z8430CM's bowl, that fitted to the Z8896 is polycarbonate.

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