209E. Foundry Lane, Spalding, Lincolnshire Installed as the only street light on this short cul-de-sac is a fluted cast iron column that would have run a gas lantern originally, before being converted to electricity later. The conversion saw the adding of a Revo swan neck bracket and fuse box to the existing column, with an early version of the ELECO 'Baldock' lantern being fitted to this assembly. This would date the conversion to around the late 1940s / early 1950s. Given the name of the road, the column may have been cast at the eponymous foundry, although this type of fluted column is common, and as there are no visible manufacture details cast into the structure, nothing about its origin can be determined.

A short extension piece fitted between the column and the bracket, combined with the height of the swan neck, brings the installation's overall height to around 15 ft (5 m).

The dark green paint is beginning to wear away from the lantern's aluminium canopy.

The fuse box's door is slightly ajar, allowing the Sangamo time switch to be seen within it. As no discharge lamp control gear components appear to exist within the enclosure, the lantern probably runs (or ran) a tungsten filament (GLS) lamp.

The first quarter of the column shaft is also painted green, while the rest of it, and the extension piece, are cream.

The bowl fitted to the Baldock is the same type as is used on my Wardle Avon, which would be a contemporary lantern.

The fuse box's door appears to have opened owing to the head of the locking bolt having sheared.

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