221A. Lombard Street, Flathurst, Petworth, Chichester, West Sussex With thanks to Tim Luckett for discovering this Survivor. Attached to a building towards the top of this street is a short outreach wall bracket supporting a lantern from ESLA's rather iconic facetted 'Bi-Multi' range; the bracket also being an ESLA [Electric Street Lighting Apparatus] product, and dating from the 1930s. As with my own example, the lantern is a two-way configuration, but appears to be smaller overall, with narrower beam angle 'wings'; probably, because the street is also narrow, and lanterns with wider reflectors could cause glare issues to properties opposite.

The tower of St Mary the Virgin Church forms a focal point at the end of Lombard Street itself.

The wall bracket incorporates a 'Harrison Type' octagonal fuse box; this being named after the ESLA company's founder, Haydn Harrison.

As can be seen, the cable supplying the wall bracket is now severed just beneath the fuse box. This is modern flexible cable, and before it was disconnected, terminated into an (equally modern) plastic enclosure that would have housed a service cut-out (superseding any original fusing arrangements within the Harrison box). The supply was still connected in 2011, but was removed by 2016. The lantern is possibly installed the wrong way around. The mirror facets are all intact, though some have lost some of their reflecting capabilities owing to moisture having tarnished the silver backing. Notice that the facets located either side of the lamp are only two rows wide, with the inner facets being wider. The rest of the facets are three rows wide, where space allows.

Looking the other way, a much newer column-mounted D.W. Windsor 'Iffley' is seen down the road.

Despite being disused, the installation is in reasonable condition for its age, but would be enhanced by having the flaking paint removed, and fresh paint applied.

A Philips SL-E compact fluorescent lamp replaces the GLS (incandescent) lamp that the lantern was designed to operate.

A wall-mounted Iffley exists further down the street, but the remains of an earlier Harrison corner bracket are still installed beneath it.

This too would have supported an ESLA lantern originally, but ended its days supporting an AC Ford AC 730.

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