113DAB. Roundhouse Way, Stanton, Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire Attached to a building that served formerly as a locomotive shed (the eponymous Roundhouse) for the adjacent Midland Main Line railway route, once the domain of the Midland Railway, are several noteworthy lighting examples, although with the building being closed in the 1980s by British Rail, dereliction has taken its toll on these fittings. Along with a GEC Z8526, there are also a number of 'shovel'-type floodlights installed - most of which no longer have any lamps left in them, and those that do, have only the metal frames of their lamps left.

The Z8526's relatively low mounting height has made it a prime target for vandals.

With only the canopy surviving, I am unable to determine whether this would have been a Z8526 (featuring a plastic bowl) or a Z8520 (flat glass cover).

The internal riveted plate is too corroded to be able to read the part and manufacturing date codes, although I suspect that it is a 1970s' example, owing to the use of green and yellow earth sleeving, and the plastic cable clamp (earlier versions would have employed solid green sleeving, and a ceramic clamp).

Numerous pellet hole dents are visible on the inside of the canopy. The remains of a mercury vapour (MBF) lamp are still secured in the smashed porcelain lampholder.

A rather dicey-looking supply cable terminates in a cast iron Henley cut-out.

The shovel floodlights are installed on the bricked-up former end windows of the building.

Again, only the frame of an MBF lamp survives in this fitting.

The original green paint applied to the outer side of the floodlight body is in good condition on the second fitting on this side.

The lamp seems to be missing from here completely.

Two further shovel floodlights exist on the northern side of the building, along with newer floodlights, which may have been installed by a later occupier of the building, after it ceased to be used by BR.

The foreground fitting also features considerable lichen growth to the enamelled bodywork.

Very little remains of this example's lamp either.

The spore growth seems less prominent on the background example.

One example in the adjacent compound (now used by contractors working on the housing being constructed on the opposite side of the road) is attached to a wooden pole.

This faces back towards the building.

Two steel enclosures exist at the bottom of the pole, with the upper one being likely to accommodate the lamp control gear, while the lower one may contain the cut-out.

On the approach to the bridge leading to Mill Lane, a 15 ft (5 m) Abacus base-hinged tubular steel column supporting a Thorn Beta 4 greets any pedestrians passing along. Again, this is likely to be a remnant from the railway days on the site.

The curved top-entry bracket is welded to the column shaft.

Unsurprisingly, both the bowl and lamp are long gone.

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