214B. Bankside, Durgates, Wadhurst, East Sussex With thanks to Dwight for informing me of these Survivors. Installed on this narrow cul-de-sac are two concrete columns that retain their original lanterns - the first is a 1930s' example (probably original to when the road was built), topped with a swan neck bracket and ESLA Bi-Multi lantern; the second is a later Concrete Utilities' Byway 'X' 15 ft (5 m) design with an Arc 4 side-entry bracket and GEC Z8896 lantern, for 80 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) lamps. This may be a replacement for another column that once supported an ESLA.

Apart from a flared collar below the spigot cap, the column supporting the ESLA has minimal decoration or embellishment.

Although the swan neck is attached to an ESLA base section, it may be a replacement, as it appears to be galvanised steel, and does not feature any finial decoration between it and the lantern.

The famous facetted mirror tiles, positioned within two large 'butterfly wings', for which the Bi-Multi lanterns are best known, are in good condition, with only a few being damaged or having lost some of their reflective silver coating.

The Philips PL-C Electronic compact fluorescent lamp (replacing a less efficient GLS - tungsten filament - lamp) is a Survivor itself - the type seen here incorporates the longer plastic base that these lamps featured when introduced to the market in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Either, this lantern no longer works, or someone has a veritable stockpile of these lamps!

The Z8896's lamp definitely worked, however - the lantern was lit in daylight.

Unusually, the lantern's canopy is painted light grey. The green hue from within confirms that an MBF lamp is fitted.

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