33CAA. Off Racecourse Road, Bakersfield, Nottingham With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of this Survivor. Situated within the grounds of the Colwick Hall Hotel is an abandoned 25 ft (8 m) Stanton 8 concrete column, with an F-type side-entry bracket supporting a GEC Z9454, for 140 Watt SO/H, SOI/H and 90 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps. The column seems to have been in public ownership formerly, and may have been installed by the-then Nottingham Corporation (the present-day Nottingham City Council) after acquiring the Hall in 1965. With the Hall then passing on to new owners, this part of the roadway would have been deemed to be private, and so the installation ended up being forgotten, while the rest of the roadway remains adopted by NCC, and its columns have been updated.
The column is surrounded by considerable foliage growth, and as it is away from the main part of the hotel, the feeling that it has been forgotten is strong.
Several vertical cracks originate at the top of the column, and continue a short distance down the shaft. A portion of concrete has been lost from the lantern end of the bracket too.
At some point after 2015, the bowl has become unclipped, and now hangs open by its hinges. A Royce Thompson P42 two-part photocell detector is visible on the lantern's canopy.
A 90 Watt SOX lamp remains fitted in the lantern, although it looks to be damaged, as its barium getter, normally around the neck of the glassware, is no longer silvery.
The close-up reveals that the lamp support spring is missing (though this could have happened long ago). The construction of the lamp's internal arc tube support reveals this to be an OSRAM product, made at the company's own factory in Shaw, near Oldham, rather than under licence by Philips at their factory in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. With the Shaw factory closing in 2000, the lantern probably hasn't worked for over a quarter of a century, if not longer. The manufacturing date code would be stamped on the aluminium plate that is riveted to the inside of the canopy, although the stamping is too faint to be legible from ground level, even with a good zoom lens.
One reason that the column may have fallen into disuse is that something appears to have caught fire in the base. No lamp control gear remains installed (and the inspection door is missing), although the base section for the P42 relay is still attached to the charred backboard.
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