Off Wellington Street, Matlock, Derbyshire Dales Across the road from the position of the former column that supported an ELECO HW-846 at the junction of Bank Road and Rutland Street is another ELECO lantern - this time, a GR 100 attached to a short wall bracket on a premises that now operates as a vehicle repair garage, but historically, served as a small depot, maintenance facility and engine room for the cable tramway that existed on the steep Bank Road until 1927. While the GR 100 was designed to run the 100 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamp - the forerunner to the later 90 Watt type, it has been converted to take an LED 'corn' lamp in more recent years, altering significantly its appearance when operating.

The bracket fits nicely into a decorative archway in the building's stonework.

The lantern's Perspex bowl has become translucent over time.

A side-on view of the lantern was possible thanks to a gap in the railings on the Wellington Street side of the building.

Despite the bowl clouding, the modern LED lamp is just about visible within the lantern. This must be a relatively early GR 100 (possibly, dating back to the mid-1960s, when the SOX-type low pressure sodium lamps were introduced as replacements for the earlier SO/H and SOI/H types) as the side refractor panels are riveted to the bowl body, rather than being part of the same moulding, as was the case with later examples.

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