219A. Milburn Croft, Seaton, Cumberland, Cumbria With thanks to Dwight for informing me of these Survivors. Located at the start of two short stub cul-de-sacs off the main Milburn Croft are 15 ft (5 m) Stanton 9 concrete columns, both supporting D-type brackets and top-entry Thorn Beta 5 lanterns, for 35 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps originally, but are now running LED retro-fit lamps instead, suggesting that the installations are set to remain for the near future (at least). The rest of the street lighting on this road comprises 5 m tubular steel hockey stick columns fitted with side-entry LED lanterns - obviously, these columns were far easier to fit new lanterns against than the two surviving concrete columns would be, though they could have been fitted with side-entry sleeves in place of the top-entry brackets as an option.
The more northerly of the two installations is pictured below.
The more angular D-type bracket never seemed to gain the popularity of the curved F-type bracket, making these all the rarer in the modern era.
The detector for a Zodion SS55-type two-part photocell is positioned in the space on the Beta 5 canopy that is normally used for the NEMA socket on one-part photocells.
A relatively fresh-looking reinstatement patch in the footway surrounds the column - perhaps. there was a plan to replace it, but this was cancelled, and the column was granted a reprieve. Alternatively, there may have been a fault with the column's electricity supply that required excavation to rectify.
There is a slight step between the column and the bracket at the joint between the two.
The lantern's plastic bowl clip has broken, resulting in a cable tie being wrapped around the lantern as a way of holding the bowl in place. A small hole has been drilled in the underside of the bowl for use as a drain for any rainwater that gathers within the lantern.
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