Silver Street, Mount Pleasant, Smallwood, Redditch, Worcestershire With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering the first Survivor. Located between Redditch Town Hall and the Kingfisher Shopping Centre is a 6 m tubular steel column supporting a GEC ZD10877 post-top lantern. Although designed for running a single 100 - 200 Watt GLS (incandescent tungsten filament) or 80 - 125 Watt 'Truelite' / MBF (mercury vapour) lamp, this example may run a higher-wattage SON (high pressure sodium) lamp, judging by the design and layout of the lamp control gear, which is exposed, owing to the column door having detached. No other ZD10877s are believed to exist, and as Thorn Gamma 3 post-tops exist on some nearby car parks and other access roads near the shopping centre, the ZD10877 could be an early casual replacement for one of these (though why another Gamma 3 couldn't be sourced, in this scenario, is a mystery).

The column is positioned adjacent a rather confusing mini roundabout, in which traffic leaving the roundabout passes on the right-hand side of the splitter, rather than the left.

The original black paint applied to the lantern's aluminium canopy has worn heavily, although traces remain visible.

Indications of water ingress are present on the underside of the bowl.

The detached door allows the innards of the column base to be glimpsed. The fuse carrier is missing from the cut-out, confirming that the installation does not work (I hope that the supply is not still live!). A Venner 'Vennerette' mechanical solar time switch would have controlled the lantern's operation; the date wheel on this showed early September, while the time indicator was positioned at 7pm (or 8pm British Summer Time, as would be the case in this month). The two additional levers on the dial also suggest that the time switch had part-night capabilities; extinguishing the lamp late in the evening, and then re-activating it (where necessary) in the early hours of the following morning. The SON ignitor is sandwiched to the right of the time switch, while the capacitor is positioned above, with the ballast installed at the top of the base.

The ballast is in poor condition, but looks to be a 1980s' Thorn design (another hint that this column may have supported a Gamma 3 originally).

This multi-storey car park on the other side of the Redditch Ringway had several columns supporting Gamma 3s on its top (open) level.

The canopy is missing from the left-hand example. A photocell bracket supporting a Greenbrook ST7316-type photocell is installed mid-way along the column shaft.

The bowl is also damaged, with a piece of it appearing to have broken off completely from the far side.

The next example along was altogether more intact, however.

The following lantern was also missing its canopy. A large amount of rainwater appeared to have gathered in the bowl.

Once again, the lantern on the next column still retained its canopy.

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