Off Timmis Road, Stambermill, Stourbridge, Dudley, West Midlands With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering these Survivors. Located in a courtyard area that is surrounded by industrial units (once the location of the Marlborough Foundry, which specialist in the production of ploughshares, don't you know) is a 25 ft (8 m) tubular steel column supporting an unusual quadruple-armed bracket; each one fitted with a GEC Z8426 lantern, for a 250 - 400 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) or SON (high pressure sodium) lamp. All four lanterns retain lamps, although the bowl is missing from one of the lanterns.

Resembling something from The War of the Worlds, the four-headed bracket looms above the area; its presence being all the more ominous owing the surrounding land being higher than Timmis Road itself is.

The lamp in the open lantern looks to be 400 Watt - someone was keen on this area being lit especially well!

The bowls on these lanterns are actually fixed to the canopies (not terribly well, going on the above lantern!); to gain access to the insides, the canopies hinge downwards from the cast aluminium sections that pass into the centres of the lanterns.

The Perspex bowl on the third lantern seemed to have turned especially translucent. The plastic has also cracked - probably from thermal expansion generated by the lamp.

The underside of the bowl on the fourth example is also cracked.

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