Off Riversdale Road / Carlyon Road, Atherstone, North Warwickshire With thanks to Leo Conway for informing me of these Survivors. Located at the end of Riversdale Road, at the entrance to a Royal Mail Distribution Centre, is a 25 ft (8 m) Stewarts & Lloyds tubular steel column, which, today, supports a Thorn Alpha 3 lantern, with the lamp control gear housed within it. Two further Alpha 3s, remotely-geared this time, which are unrelated to the first example, are to be seen in the grounds of a filling station on the corner of Carlyon Road and Ratcliffe Road, attached to 20 ft (6 m) Abacus base-hinged columns. In both cases, the lanterns will run a 250 - 400 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) or SON (high pressure sodium) lamp. Also nearby on Carlyon Road, inside the grounds of a school, is a 5 m tubular steel column supporting a CU Phosco P178 post-top lantern.
A bracket supporting a Royce Thompson Oasis 1000 photocell is attached to the column supporting the Riversdale Road Alpha 3, suggesting that it may remain in nightly use.
An elliptical lamp is visible within the lantern.
The first of the two Carlyon Road examples is positioned in such a way that anyone photographing it will feel slightly peckish afterwards.
The lantern is in excellent condition, with the bowl remaining largely clean internally.
Only a small amount of dirt exists in the lowest portion of the bowl.
The second example is positioned more closely to the filling station itself.
Sadly, the plastic bowl hinge has split, causing the lantern to hang open slightly through this lack of support.
The P178 is attached to an unusual square-based column.
The bowl has suffered impact damage on the visible side, while the black paint applied to the canopy originally has worn away.
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