113F. Main Street / Harrington Road, Loddington, Kettering, Northamptonshire With thanks to Dwight for informing me of these Survivors. Situated within this village are several installations that continue to run 80 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) lamps in June 2024; the majority of these being AC Ford types, though products made by other manufacturers are present too.

This ornate wall bracket is to be found on Main Street.

The bracket is angled to tilt the lantern, an AC Ford AC 888, upwards, as a way of casting the beam further across the road.

Unusually, a glass refractor bowl is employed, rather than the more common polycarbonate type. This has the advantage of retaining a 'new' appearance to the lantern.

This underside view reveals that the bowl is undamaged, with only minimal dirt deposits.

The fuse box at the other end of the bracket carries Venner Time Switch branding, though any time switch control that did exist within it is probably long gone by now. Notice that the box's lock seems to have failed, resulting in lengths of insulation tape being applied as a makeshift means of keeping the box closed.

Heading over to Harrington Road, this ELECO HW-922 was seen to be dayburning. A 5 m hockey stick column provided the support.

The emerald green glow, as picked up by the camera, confirms that an MBF is employed in this lantern. The failed miniature photocell is visible on the lantern's canopy.

A glass refractor bowl is employed here too, although it would benefit from an internal cleaning.

A little further along the road, a bowl-less GEC Z8491 was to be seen.

The bowl has been missing since before March 2009, according to Google Street View.

With the bowl missing, the three-pin bayonet lampholder is visible; another confirmation that the lamp fitted is an MBF.

The next couple of columns supported AC 850s.

This does feature the polycarbonate bowl, which shows signs of damage to the underside. A Royce Thompson Oasis 1000 photocell provides the automatic switching on the lantern.

The second, virtually identical, installation, was near to the junction leading back to Main Street.

The hockey sticks have rather short outreaches - as the road itself is narrow, this is sufficient.

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