213C. Haygate Road, Telford, Shropshire Fitted to a short column at the entrance to a telephone exchange is a Falks 'Beaufort 20' utilitarian post-top lantern fitted with an incandescent (GLS) lamp of unknown wattage. The whole site looks to date from the 1960s, and so the installation is probably original to when the exchange building was constructed. The lantern is unlikely to be in nightly operation any longer, however, especially as a Thorn Beta 2 55 Watt SOX lantern is installed on the corner of the building that is closest to it.

Amazingly, two Survivors are seen in close proximity, with the Beaufort being visible on one side of the dividing wall, and a disused Stanton 10 concrete column (repurposed for supporting signage, by the looks of things) being situated on the other.

Although various bowls and diffusers were produced for the Beaufort range of lanterns, another option was for the lamp to be exposed, and have no form of optical control, which is the case for this example.

The central reflective disc has lost most of its original white paint, and is now rather rusty.

The base casting of a long-removed post-top lantern remains attached to the concrete column, while a Thorn Sunflood halogen floodlight is positioned to face the frontage of the adjacent business premises.

Around the corner, on Bridge Road, an unknown lantern is attached to the former Clifton Cinema of 1937 - the building being used latterly as an outlet for the Dunelm furnishing chain.

I decided to photograph this lantern, owing to its American 'Cobrahead'-style refractor bowl.

With permission to demolish the building granted (a shame; 1930s' architecture never fails to impress, even with the slightly faded grandeur seen here), the lantern's days are numbered.

This lantern could be an AEC product, as it features the same ridged pattern to the rear of its canopy, as well as the under-canopy thumbscrew for securing the canopy, as is seen on the Uno lantern.

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