57AJ. Herald Drive, Crewe, Cheshire With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering these Survivors. Attached to an 8 m tubular steel column by means of a double-arm bracket are two Thorn Alpha 8 lanterns, both probably running a 150 Watt SON (high pressure sodium) lamp. Although the Alpha 8s are to the original 1978 design, these are likely to be late 1980s' versions, and could be some of the last made to this design, prior to Thorn launching the all-GRP canopied version as a replacement towards the end of that decade. The bowls fitted are also different to the earlier refractor bowl type, and appear to be of the more angular type that would be used on the new Alpha 8.

The column is positioned where the main access road splits to form a loop around a small car park.

The double-arm bracket features no additional support webbing, as some designs do. Both Alpha 8s run Zodion SS4 photocells.

While these Alpha 8s retain the aluminium rear casting that accommodates the lamp control gear, the canopy (previously also aluminium, but painted white) is now GRP, making this particular version something of a bridge between the original Thorn version, and the later, all-GRP type.

Oddly, the canopy of the right-hand lantern is not as impregnated with lichen spores as the left-hand example is.

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