214A. Fishmarket Road, Rye, Rother, East Sussex With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Attached to a short wall bracket is a two-way ESLA Bi-Multi lantern, dating from the 1930s, and designed for running GLS (tungsten filament) lamps, although today, this example runs a domestic compact fluorescent lamp instead. While it may once have been one of the actual street lights along this road, in the modern era, it appears to have slipped into the private ownership of the property to which the bracket is attached.

Two very different eras of street lighting are captured here - the 1930s' cast iron and reflector technology gives way to the modern 10 m aluminium column with LED lantern.

The inside of the bracket pipe is not used to support the supply cable; instead, a length of Twin & Earth cable is attached to the outside of the bracket, and into the lampholder through the lantern. The lampholder employed is not the original ESLA one, and is positioned too low down for the mirror facets to optimise the lamp's output effectively.

What appears to be a domestic batten-type lampholder is employed. Many of the mirror facets are damaged, although repairs using smaller mirrored tiles appear to have been attempted.

An alternative view of the installation, in silhouette form.

The hand switch control forms part of the bracket. As the supply cable does not go via the hand switch, the lantern must be switched from elsewhere.

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