194EB. Off New Chester Road, Heathfield, Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside Located in a short cul-de-sac situated alongside the former Bromborough Police Station is a GEC Z5640 post-top lantern attached to the top of a brick pillar at the entrance to the road. More Z5640s are visible over the fence, in the grounds of the former police station, suggesting that these properties may have been part of the same complex formerly. With the police station having closed, these lanterns not in operation any longer, and depending on how the example mounted on the pillar is cabled, neither might this one.

The example atop the pillar is attached to some curved decorative steelwork. A second pillar at the entrance appears to have had a Z5640 fitted to it too, but this is no longer present. At the other end of the fenced-off roadway are two identical pillars, though both of these are topped with Vandalite Shetland lanterns (the translucent-bowled version of the Skye); presumably, as replacements for damaged Z5640s.

The Z5640 bowls are still transparent, and show no signs of discolouration, suggesting that they are acrylic, rather than polycarbonate, and/or run lamps that do not produce high amounts of UV or heat.

The underside section, designed for lighting the area directly beneath the column, is quite grubby, however.

The two surviving Z5640s are visible in the distance. These are attached to 15 ft (5 m) aluminium ZP2900 columns, also made by GEC.

The lamp in the left-hand lantern has fallen out of its holder, and is visible on the bottom of the lantern.

The lamp looks to be missing completely from the other example.

The column at the far end of this cul-de-sac supports a Thorn Gamma 6 - probably, a 1990s' replacement for another Z5640.

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