210A. Station Road, Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Situated on the corner of Clubbs Lane is a Stanton 6B 25 ft (8 m) concrete column supporting a top-entry Thorn Beta 5 lantern - a very peculiar combination, given that the Beta 5 is intended to be installed at 5 m mounting heights. I assume that the original lantern required replacement by the early 1980s, and the Beta 5 happened to be available to contractors at the time, rather than buying in a main road top-entry lantern specially for this installation - the surrounding columns are all 5 m in height.
I also assume that a taller column was installed here originally, as not only is it situated at a slightly cranked junction, but the road widens at this point too, with a small car parking area now existing opposite.
The bracket must be deteriorating, as a portion of it is wrapped in insulation tape in an attempt to prevent (or at least, slow down) the spalling process.
A coupler and reducer allows the bracket's wider pipe thread to accommodate the narrower 3/4 " BSP entry in the Beta 5. Whilst designed for 35 Watt SOX lamps, today, the Beta 5 runs a retro-fit LED lamp instead.
This design of the 6B dates from the 1930s - the clues to this are the wider, octagonal base, and the gap in the bracket's rear fin.
By the 1950s, lamp control gear had reduced in size sufficiently to allow the base to be made narrower. The bracket fin gap was also removed at this time.
The door here is a hinged sheet of steel, whereas this was changed to a cast aluminium equivalent on later versions.
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