2ABF. Off Lindum Road, Lincoln Standing outside the Usher Art Gallery is a 25 ft (8 m) cast iron lighting column supporting a post-top harp bracket and lantern with a bowl resembling the types seen fitted to some 1950s' British Thomson-Houston main road products; thus, it would have been designed to accommodate either a high-wattage GLS (incandescent tungsten filament) lamp, or a 250 - 400 Watt medium-pressure mercury vapour (MA/V) lamp, but today, could run a far greater variety of lamps. The lantern is likely to be a replacement for an earlier product, as the gallery opened in 1927, and the column may be of similar vintage.
The installation is pictured on a damp (but not rainy, contrary to how these pictures appear) September 2024 morning.
The main lantern body features a stepped canopy.
A banner advert for the adjacent gallery is positioned along the column shaft.
Such is the age of the column that ladder bars are cast into the top of it, owing to most maintenance at the time of its manufacture being conducted in this way.
The bowl appears to rely on two clips located within the underside of the canopy to be secured in normal operation.
A directional arrow indicating the main beam distribution is present on the underside of the bowl.
A narrow access door is provided in the column's ornate base section.
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