170BAA. Off Main Street, Evington, Leicester With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering these Survivors. Located in a small private parking area for a small parade of shops, and the flats above them, are three 20 ft (6 m) Stewarts & Lloyds tubular steel columns supporting Thorn Gamma 3 post-top lanterns, designed for running a single 250 - 400 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) or SON (high pressure sodium) lamp. These examples each use a 250 Watt MBF lamp, however, or did, as they may have become abandoned over the years.
The 20 ft mounting height of the lanterns would certainly allow the surrounding area to be well lit after nightfall.
Both the canopy and bowl on this example are rather grubby.
This column was missing its door, allowing the period lamp control gear (British Lighting Industries AME 53158·4 250 Watt ballast, and BICC capacitor) to be seen. A single steel wire armoured cable terminates into a Y-shaped conduit box.
The capacitor was manufactured in June 1967.
An LED floodlight positioned towards the top of the next column suggested that the lantern was no longer used.
The cable to the floodlight is fed through a small hole drilled in the neck section of the Gamma 3's bowl.
The third column was positioned at the exit of the car park, near the junction with School Lane (the land now occupied by the shops having been the location of the eponymous school).
Although this bowl was cleaner overall, evidence of trapped internal dirt at its lowest point is visible.
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