2AAAB. Off Sleaford Road, Staniland, Boston, Lincolnshire Installed in a parking area for an adjacent shop premises is a 35 ft (10 m) Stewarts & Lloyds tubular steel column supporting an ELECO SR-304 lantern, for 250 - 400 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) and SON (high pressure sodium) lamps. The installation pre-dates the shop by a number of years - formerly, the building housed Boston's Railway Social Club, and before that, the site was part of the Great Northern Railway's Boston Works, although this appears to have become defunct by the middle of the Twentieth Century, suggesting that the column was installed during the building's time as the Social Club.
A towering radio mast dwarfs this, and the other columns, in the car park. The background column also supported an SR-304 in the past.
A fairly lengthy outreach bracket supports the lantern.
The bowl was lost at some point after August 2022.
Within the lantern, the smashed remains of a SON lamp are still connected to the E40 (Goliath Edison Screw) lampholder.
The cylindrical device behind the lampholder seems to be an ignitor for the SON lamp, with a baffle plate protecting it from the heat generated by the lamp. This is a rather unusual arrangement, as the control gear is normally all kept together - in this case, the ballast and capacitor must be installed in the column base.
Unlike equivalent lanterns produced by the likes of GEC and Thorn, which employed a pressed aluminium lantern body, whereas ELECO opted for a die-cast solution for the SR-304.
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