234. Off Leyland Lane, Leyland, South Ribble, Lancashire With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Situated within the grounds of the Broadfield Arms Public House is a single 15 ft (5 m) GEC concrete column with swan neck bracket and top-entry lantern resembling the Z9456 (although, that contained the lamp control gear within it, whereas this lantern has a slimmer canopy, and the gear mounted remotely), which would evolve to become the Z9481. The use of the earlier lantern here suggests that the installation dates from the 1950s. Sadly, it now lies disused and abandoned, with the bowl being peppered with airgun pellets, and a smashed 35 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamp remaining within it.

The concrete column sports a steel inspection door, which has become rusty through age. Later GEC concrete columns feature aluminium doors instead.

With the two separate bowl toggles, the lantern resembles a miniature version of the Z9451 - the top-entry version of the Z9450. A crack is visible in the underside of the swan neck.

From this angle, two wide-canopied Thorn Gamma 6 post-top lanterns are visible in an adjacent garden.

This side of the swan neck reveals a large portion of missing concrete, exposing the steel support rods that would be embedded within it. The multiple bullet holes within the lantern's bowl have caused the refractor panel on this side to detach, and slide into the underside of the bowl, along with numerous shards of glass that were once the lamp.

The section of the bowl that would have supported the panel has a slightly bevelled edge to it.

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