97CA. Swan Road, Dimbles, Lichfield, Staffordshire Located in the front garden of a property overlooking Swan Road is a 15 ft (5 m) Abacus tubular steel column supporting a wide-canopied Thorn Gamma 6 post-top lantern. Unusually, the Gamma 6 is of the type where any discharge lamp control gear would be installed remotely - if any were required, depending on the lamp type employed. As the column is painted the familiar light green colour employed in Staffordshire in the past, I assume that it was a 'public' street light originally, but because of its position, has fallen into disuse, particularly as Swan Road is lit with main road lanterns and columns, rendering this installation unnecessary.

No other gardens along here have any columns installed within them, and no columns with Gamma 6s installed exist behind the houses either.

The shallower base casting to the lantern is the indicator for this being the separate gear type.

The wide canopy is also a more unusual variant of this once-popular post-top.

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