219B. B5306, Howgate, Moresby, Cumberland, Cumbria With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Attached to a wooden pole that also supports the overhead electrical distribution network is a small AC Ford bracket supporting an abandoned ELECO 'Letchworth' top-entry lantern for 100 - 200 Watt GLS (tungsten filament) lamps, and dating from the 1950s / 60s. If any of the other nearby wooden poles once carried similar apparatus, it is long gone now, making this installation's survival all the more remarkable. Surprisingly, despite lying derelict, the bracket retains an electrical supply from the overhead conductors.
The forgotten installation looks rather inharmonious alongside the modern Monitron speed camera.
The live and neutral/earth conductors feeding the bracket are housed in a plastic conduit for much of their length, suggesting that the installation was still in use in the not-too-distant past, although even by May 2009, it was disused, according to Google Street View. The live feed is taken from the lowest of the five un-insulated electrical conductors; the so-called "fifth-core" method being an older means of group-switching multiple lighting installations using a single time switch or photocell.
Rust from the bracket finial has 'leaked' down onto the lantern's aluminium canopy.
Nothing remains within the lantern - the bowl (and its support ring) and lampholder having been removed.
The modern street lighting is installed on the opposite side of the road, away from the electrical conductors.
Two fixing points secure the bracket to the pole - the main clamp, just above the fuse box, and secondly, through the decorative scrollwork that also provides additional support in the event of a heavy lantern being fitted.
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