188A. Off Broxton Road, Broxton, Cheshire Installed within the grounds of a petrol station is a tubular steel tube that supports a disused Atlas Alpha 3 lantern. According to Google Street View imagery, the lantern has been in this condition since (at least) 2009, and back then, a second, identical installation existed on the other side of the forecourt, although this was removed at some point after 2011.

The pole is leaning backwards slightly, having been nudged by a vehicle parking up in front of it.

Only the canopy and rear casting remain; the bowl and lamp are missing.

This must be a very 'late' Atlas, or possibly even an early Thorn or British Lighting Industries, example, as the Atlas logo is not on the casting, and the other Alpha 3 featured a two-clip refractor bowl, rather than the four-clip plain bowl that earlier examples used.

Although the identification label remains alongside the lampholder, it is too faint to be legible from the ground.

Interestingly, the lantern is in a state of partial disassembly, with the corrugated above-lamp reflector panels seen on some Atlas models having been removed, but the brackets remaining. There also appears to be a jammed socket head surrounding one of the bolts that attaches the canopy to the rear casting, suggesting that someone was planning to separate the two, but gave up in this endeavour rather quickly.

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