12FAB. Off East Avenue, Walthamstow, London Borough of Waltham Forest With thanks to Alex Monk for informing me of this Survivor. Installed within a communal car park for some adjacent flats is a 15 ft (5 m) Stanton 10 column supporting an ELECO post-top lantern that would have accommodated two or four 2 ft (600 mm) linear fluorescent lamps of 20 or 40 Watts. Unfortunately, all traces of the lantern's original light source appear to have been removed, with an LED 'corn' lamp now providing this instead, and a high pressure sodium (SON) floodlight attached to the column, to provide additional lighting.
As the lantern, floodlight and an adjacent LED bollard were all operating in daylight when pictured, a separate photocell switching control may have failed.
Externally, the lantern is largely similar to other ELECO post-tops, except that it employs an elongated bowl.
A small break in the Perspex bowl reveals a central vertical support spine.
The LED lamp can be glimpsed within the lantern from this angle.
From this angle, we can see that a hole is drilled in the lantern's base casting as a means of supplying the floodlight.
The blue-white light of the LED lamp conveys the impression that the lantern runs a mercury vapour (MBF) lamp instead.
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