97EB. Albert Road, Fazeley, Lichfield, Staffordshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of these Survivors. Installed on a footpath between two sets of houses, and also along the southern perimeter of the road, are two 15 ft (5 m) Stanton 10 columns with short side-entry brackets. One of these supports a Simplex Aries lantern; the other, a Siemens SRL 35, both of which run 35 Watt SOX / 26 Watt SOX-E (low pressure sodium) lamps. While neither is likely to be the original lantern fitted when the columns were installed (these being 1960s' installations), the Aries is the older of the two, with the SRL 35 (possibly) serving as a replacement for another Aries in the 1990s.

Although there is no official vehicular access to this column, as the surrounding area is lawn, a maintenance vehicle could be driven across them (in dry weather), rather than having to rely on ladder use.

The fact that the column is wrapped in tape, and the concrete appears to have bulged, would make placing a ladder against this column all the more a foolhardy pursuit.

Although long enough to accommodate a 55 Watt lamp, as this wattage would be overkill for the footpath application, the shorter lamp is employed instead.

The column supporting the SRL 35 is to be found at the junction of this footpath and the southern perimeter path.

This also exhibits signs of structural failure, with a large chunk of concrete having been lost from the bracket.

As its name would suggest, the SRL 35 was too short to accommodate a 55 Watt lamp; the SRL 55 (essentially, the revised name for the GEC Z9536 series) catered for the longer lamp type.

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