21BAB. Off Duke Street, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of this Survivor. Situated within a car park belonging to the adjacent Cross Street Clinic is an abandoned 25 ft (8 m) Stanton 8 concrete column. Only a short stub remains of the bracket, and the lantern is gone completely. The lack of any lamp control gear components in the base prevents any guess from being made as to what lantern would have been fitted originally. There are no other columns of this type in the car park, and indeed, this one might date from when the land was occupied by a 'Food Extract Factory', as mapping from 1948 - 1974 indicates.

The lack of a bracket makes the old column seem slightly stunted in height in comparison to the modern 8 m tubular steel column installed adjacent on Duke Street itself.

The concrete is gone completely from the bracket stub.

The remains of a later component (possibly, a CCTV camera bracket) are Tespa-banded to the cut-down bracket pipe.

The only component left in the door-less column base is a Lucy cut-out with the fuse carrier missing. Surprisingly, the supply cable is twin-and-earth - not a cable that is usually employed for such a purpose. The column may have been rewired if it did pre-date the construction of the car park.

The column condition itself is good, despite the dereliction.

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