205A. High Street / Bridewell Street, Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk Still extant in August 2023 along these two streets are two older CU Phosco (Phosware) products - a P122 / SO 60T attached to The Swan Public House on High Street, and a P152 attached to a pole bracket on Bridewell Street. The lanterns run 35 Watt SOX lamps, but would have run the forerunners to these (45 - 60 Watt SO/H / SOI/H and 40 Watt SOX) in the past.
The P122 is seen first. Appropriately, a Chinese takeaway situated opposite happened to be called The Lantern!
The wall bracket is of the same functional design as seen supporting the ELECO HW-852 on the previous page.
Aside from the lantern's Perspex bowl having become slightly translucent over the years, the lantern is in immaculate condition.
The so-called 'Oddie' key used in securing the bowl is visible at the front of the lantern, whilst the hinge is visible at the back.
The installation's Henley cut-out is attached directly to the wall too, while an AC Ford AC 260 time switch box (with special AC 262 Sangamo Weston cover) exists above it, suggesting that a Sangamo time switch was once used to control the lantern. As can be seen, a Royce Thompson ER12HN miniature photocell is now fitted to the right-hand side of the box, replacing the time switch. Curiously, the detector for another miniature photocell is fitted to the left-hand side of the enclosure too - I expect that as this was pointing towards the building, the lantern would operate during the day in dull weather, and so the second minicell was installed in the more suitable position.
High Street becomes Bridewell Street a little further north, where the P152 stands guard.
An ER12HN is fitted here too.
The P152 was something of the evolution of the P122 (although both seem to have been available concurrently for a time in the early 1960s), although the Oddie key fastening was retained, except that the bowl now opened to the side, rather than to the back. As can be seen here, this example's key no longer secures the bowl, leading to a length of wire being twisted around it, and also around the bracket outreach.
The Perspex used in these bowls is notoriously thin, and breaks easily, particularly after being exposed to the sun's ultraviolet rays for many years. As can be seen here, numerous breaks exist around the lip of the bowl, with further cracking having occurred further down.
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