81BC. Festival Park, Festival Way, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Attached to a Stanton 8 25 ft (8 m) column with F-type bracket is a gear-in-head Thorn Alpha 3 lantern. The column is installed within a site compound, although it appears to be left over from when an adjacent footpath was a roadway to a now-demolished industrial premises; possibly, part of the Shelton Bar steel Rolling Mill site, which opened in 1964, but closed in 2000. Certainly, the installation is likely to pre-date 1986, which was when the Stoke-on-Trent National Garden Festival was held (hence, the name of the road), and constructed on land occupied by another steelworks, which closed in 1978.

The Alpha 3 is possibly not the original lantern to be fitted to this column - its elongated shoe not complementing the tapering outreach of the bracket.

Lengths of banding have been wrapped around the section of the bracket near its connection with the column, as well as around the lantern spigot, in an attempt to prevent the concrete from falling away.

Damage is visible to the bowl, including two airgun pellet holes.

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