Off Kingfisher Business Centre, Lakeside, Redditch, Worcestershire Positioned behind a steel perimeter fence for an industrial premises are two 20 ft (6 m) 'Midway-X' concrete columns and 'Midway' side-entry brackets, made by Concrete Utilities, with one of these still supporting its (likely) original lantern - a 1960s' Revo 'Sol-d'Or' C15152, designed for running low-pressure sodium lamps of the 45 - 60 Watt SO/H, SOI, 40 Watt SOX (original rating) and 35 Watt SOX (revised rating) variety. The other Midway-X column within the compound has had its lantern replaced with a rather crudely-installed floodlight, suggesting that while that column still serves a purpose, this one has become disused and forgotten.

I had to double-take at seeing this lantern - I'd just driven past the installation, missing it completely, and only when driving back the other way did I spot it, and jump out of the car to take these pictures!

The remains of (what appear to be) telecommunications cables are cable tied to the bracket. Just visible is the top of the column, complete with numerous vertical structural cracks running down its shaft.

The two toggles that emerge from the lantern's rear casting secure the bonded Perspex canopy and bowl under normal circumstances. The underside of the bowl shows evidence of prolonged water ingress, with a pool of murky rainwater suggesting that the internal sealing gasket has failed.

'Revo - Made in England' is cast into the lower part of the rear casting. The lantern is actually not all that far from where the Revo factory once existed in Tipton, which was in Staffordshire at the time, but is now part of the West Midlands.

Meanwhile, the aluminium inspection door remains in place and secure.

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