96C. Off the A6 Chapel Street, Belper, Amber Valley Situated in the back yard of one of the properties that fronts Chapel Street is a short cast iron column supporting an AC Ford swan neck and top-entry BTH (British Thomson-Houston) Rural Open / Mazdalux Rural lantern, probably the ST289 type, which was designed to run a 60 - 150 Watt GLS (incandescent tungsten filament) lamp using a two-pin bayonet lampholder, but today, is fitted with a domestic compact fluorescent lamp instead.

The rather diminutive installation looks slightly out of place with a modern 6 m tubular steel column in the car park for the Ada Belfield Library existing nearby.

The swan neck itself is quite tall, and features a cast fuse box between it and the column.

Originally, a prismatic glass refractor ring would have surrounded the lamp, but this has been lost over time.

BTH produced a side-entry version of this lantern too; the blanked-off portion of the canopy would serve as the connection point on such a lantern.

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