211G. George Street Car Park, Off Broad Road, Cobholm Island, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk With thanks to Tim Luckett for discovering this Survivor. Located at the start of a footpath leading to North Quay is a 15 ft (5 m) Stanton 9 column with a D-type top-entry bracket and the remains of a suspected Bleeco open conical lantern, for a single 100 Watt GLS (incandescent) lamp. Despite the installation being likely to date from the late 1950s, this style of lantern has its origins in the 1930s, and if it was installed new to this column (as opposed to being transferred from an earlier column), it must have been a very late example of this design - lantern technology having evolved somewhat in the intervening two decades. Sadly, the lantern now lies disused, with its underside reflector and lamp having gone missing by 2025. Back in 2012, both were still present; the reflector's shape identifying it as a likely Bleeco product instead of the similar 'Lodestar' produced by Revo - I wonder if it still worked at the time.
With the column being positioned tight against a wall, it can be missed easily - only the outreach from the bracket gives it some backward visibility.
The porcelain bayonet lampholder remains extant within the cast iron upper bodywork.
The narrowness of the footpath, combined with the presence of adjacent concrete bollards, is probably what has allowed this installation to remain at all, let alone without receiving any later major modernisation.
One non-original feature is the Royce Thompson P42 two-part photocell detector that pokes out of a hole drilled in the column shaft; the photocell serving as a replacement for a time switch control.
All but one of the fixing screws employed to hold the reflector in place are missing. The incredibly basic nature of the lantern is demonstrated here.
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