174KA. Cambridge Street, Ladywood, Park Central, Birmingham With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering this Survivor. Situated outside the Prince of Wales public house is an 8 m tubular steel column supporting a CU Phosco (Phosware) P222 multi-lamp post-top lantern. This colossal lantern could accommodate between two and four lamps within it, depending on the type employed (typical wattages of 150 - 400 Watt, although the four-lamp version was limited to a maximum of 250 Watt, and the three-lamp version could also accommodate 90 - 135 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps). Although this method of lighting large areas is effective, in recent years, the high power consumption has rendered multi-lamp lanterns largely obsolete; the P222 being the last such lantern to remain in production, which lasted until the mid-2000s. Historical Google Street view imagery taken on Cambridge Street shows that many more P222s existed along the road previously; all but this example being replaced at some point after March 2019.

The lantern was lit during the day when photographed in March 2025.

Only a single SON lamp seemed to be operational within the lantern.

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