109M. Duke Street, Settle, North Yorkshire With thanks to Dwight for informing me of these Survivors. Installed alongside their own replacements are two abandoned cast iron columns with top-entry swan neck brackets and the canopies from GEC Z9583 (later to become the Siemens SRL 35) lanterns, for 35 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps. The replacement 5 m tubular steel columns both support CU Phosco P567 lanterns. The reason behind the old columns' retention is unknown, although there may have been a public request for them to be left in place, despite being redundant. Further along the road, three 5 m Stanton 1805-type concrete columns are installed. These are fitted with 1980s' aluminium-canopied Thorn Beta 79s running an unknown lamp type.

The first of the two cast iron columns has a fluted shaft and wider base section. To the right, a policeman made out of flowerpots (in place for the town's Flowerpot Festival) poses with a pretend speed measuring device. Despite the policeman being all of about three foot tall, I witnessed some vehicles braking as they travelled down the hill and spotted him standing there!

Evenin' all!

The Z9583 appeared to be stripped of all components at some point after May 2009 (although, the replacement column has existed here since before November 2008); since then, it has lain derelict, with the aluminium canopy showing signs of corrosion internally. Attempting to re-wire the swan neck bracket must have proved problematic for the engineers installing the Z9583 in place of an older lantern - a connector block is positioned at the cable entry point within the lantern, with a short length of flexible cable connecting the old twin-and-earth cable within the bracket to the new lantern's connector.

The other end of the twin-and-earth terminated into this small fuse box at the end of the swan neck. Nothing else now remains in the box - the supply cable and fuse having been removed.

The second column was of a completely different design, with less decoration on its shaft, although the swan neck has decorative scrollwork to compensate for this.

Here, the flexible cable appears to have pulled through the bracket structure without as much issue - there doesn't appear to be the same reuse of the older cable here.

The swan neck is confirmed as being an ESLA product, thanks to the cover remaining intact on this example.

The first of the 1805s supporting a Beta 79 was then seen - this and the second installation are pictured below.

The polycarbonate bowl has yellowed heavily over time, suggesting that a mercury vapour (MBF) lamp, which would degrade the plastic more rapidly, owing to its UV output, could be fitted.

The second column shows signs of recent ivy clearance from its shaft. Given the structural instabilities that were discovered later with the 1805-type columns, this is probably not a bad move to have made, though equally, the ivy might have been the only thing holding the column up!

The bowl on this example is also yellowed quite visibly.

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