194I. Kirkby Bank Road / Webber Road, Knowsley Industrial Park, Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside With thanks to Dwight for informing me of these Survivors. Attached to a series of industrial units near Lees Road are several notable older lanterns from the 1960s, with two of these being Revo Lucidors, and another being a GEC Z9484. The Lucidors are the gear-in-head type, and are configured for running 55 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps, although originally, they would have run 85 Watt SO/H / SOI/H lamps, which have the same physical characteristics as a 55 Watt lamp would, instead. The lamp type and wattage of the Z9484 is unknown, although a second, now-removed, example attached to another of the industrial units appeared to have lampholders at either end, suggesting that it ran a 60 Watt SLI/H (linear low pressure sodium) lamp when in use. If this were the case, the remaining GEC lantern would be a Z9494 or Z9495 instead.
The first of the two Lucidors is pictured below.
Both lanterns are missing their bowls, although I doubt that either has been in use for many years - both are fitted with OSRAM lamps made at the company's Shaw factory, which closed in 2000, and both lamps look very worn.
The lantern has rotated slightly on its bracket, allowing the (very corroded) lamp control gear components to be seen partially.
The second example is to be found a little further along the same panelling.
Despite the bowl having disappeared, its clip remains attached at the front of the lantern.
The white appearance to the lamp's arc tube suggests that it is broken, with the metallic sodium within the arc tube having oxidised.
The remaining Z9484 is seen further down the structure.
The lantern features a Perspex bowl, which has become translucent with age.
As a bonus, the yard at the eventual end of the industrial units has three 15 ft (5 m) Concrete Utilities' Estate Minor 'X' columns, topped with P178 lanterns, installed by the entrance.
Attached to a building on the corner of Kirkby Bank Road and Webber Road is a steel pole supporting an Atlas / Thorn Alpha 7 lantern, for 250 - 400 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) lamps, though as LED floodlights are installed further down the pole, the Alpha 7 is likely to be redundant.
At the time of photographing, the bracket also served as a useful perch for a wood pigeon!
The Alpha 7's glass bowl featured a small crack on the other side of the lantern.
The outreach bracket is welded to the vertical section of the pipe.
The damaged bowl is not as visible when viewed from the side.
A little further down Webber Road was this Concrete Utilities' 25 ft (8 m) 'Avenue 3DNN' concrete column supporting a short outreach 'Highway' side-entry bracket, and the remains of a Relite / Simplex Jupiter lantern.
This bracket also saw use as a watch post for an ornithological being!
The pan-like aluminium canopy that made up the bulk of the Jupiter's body is missing completely, leaving only the rear section and a grubby Goliath Edison Screw (E40) lampholder attached.
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