134AJ. Park Hill, Harlow, Essex With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Situated near the junction with Penshurst is a cast iron column, converted from gas to electricity, and extended in overall height using a long GEC-made swan neck bracket. The bracket supports a GEC lantern too - a Z5565 "Small Oxford", although the bowl is missing, and the lack of a lamp confirms that the lantern is no longer in operation.

Despite the disuse, the column retains a reasonable amount of paint, although this is not the case for the bracket, which has lost much of its own paint.

The bracket's fuse box cover lid was missing, revealing porcelain fuse carriers within, but no surviving time switch.

Despite the bowl having been lost (assuming that one was fitted originally, which I think would be the case), the internal glass refractor dome survives.

The use of a two-pin bayonet lampholder suggests that, when in use, the lantern ran tungsten filament (GLS) lamps - as there is nowhere for discharge lamp control gear to be installed, this makes sense.

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