Off Hayfield Road, Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak Located on the roadway leading down to the Chapel Lodge Care Home are several 4 m tubular steel columns, with most supporting GEC Z5670-series post-top lanterns. As there is no provision for lamp control gear within the columns themselves, the lanterns seem to be a mixture of having no gear at all (and run lamps that do not require any external at all), and having the gear wedged into the lanterns themselves - a likely modification made when the lanterns were installed originally.
This installation is the first to be seen from Hayfield Road.
Although the polycarbonate bowl has discoloured, the outline of an LED GLS (a retrofit for a standard incandescent lamp) is visible within the lantern, though it doesn't appear to be positioned using the fixed internal structure of the lantern.
The second column is located as the roadway widens out to become the Care Home's car park.
The presence of wires in the lower portion of this lantern suggest that it could have some sort of ballast installed, although equally, the lamp could be resting on the top of the base casting.
As with the previous column, this installation has had a hanging basket attached approximately half way along its shaft.
This lantern looks to be the most likely to have had gear installed within it.
A short cast iron column positioned close to the building was also topped with a Z5670.
This example doesn't seem to have anything resting on the base section, and in fact, even the lamp is heavily obscured here.
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