97KA. Princess Street, Chase Terrace, Burntwood, Staffordshire This road is home to several different Survivors. Firstly, on its junction with Cannock Road are three 25 ft (8 m) tubular steel columns made by Stewart & Lloyd, and supporting ELECO Silver-Ray SR 304 lanterns that are installed on the forecourt of a car dealership premises. Secondly, a Thorn Beta 79 is installed on a 5 m (15 ft) Stanton 1805 concrete column on Princess Street itself, and further up the road, rather than having any column-mounted street lights, Holophane Wallpackette II bulkheads attached to the house provide night-time illumination on the street.
This SR 304 is installed close to one of the few 'public' lighting columns to be seen on Princess Street; here, another Holophane product is employed, but this is an 'S-Line' LED lantern.
Barely visible on the underside of the bowl are the remains of the circular diffusion spot, which would have been white when new.
The second of the three columns is positioned at the other end of the forecourt area.
All three of these installations feature short outreach brackets.
The Beta 79 could be the 1805 column's original lantern, assuming that both date from the late 1980s.
This version of the lantern features the shallow bowl seen with the original aluminium-canopied version, although the canopy material had been changed to GRP by the time that this example was made.
One of the Wallpackette II bulkheads is seen attached to this property. The choice to wall-mount the lights is an odd one, considering that the road is wide enough to have full-width footways on either side, which could have accommodated columns easily.
An adjacent cast aluminium fuse box, made by AC Ford, serves as a termination point for both the incoming supply cable, as well as the outgoing cable to the Wallpackette. Just visible on the top of the box is the detector for a Royce Thompson P42 two-part photocell.
The close-up of the fitting reveals that the maintenance number label (E6) is applied to the upper front portion of its cover, but has had to be applied sideways-on, owing to a lack of vertical space.
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