194IA. Charley Wood Road, Knowsley Industrial Park, Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering these Survivors. This thoroughfare through the Industrial Park is home to two Survivors, as of April 2025, with one being very much a staple on Merseyside (particularly, Liverpool)'s street lighting scene in days gone by - a 15 ft (5 m) Concrete Utilities' Estate Minor column supporting an early incarnation of the 'Highfield Manor' post-top lantern that was produced specifically for Liverpool by CU's lantern division, Phosware, (the present-day CU Phosco) in the late 1940s / early 1950s. The evidence that this is an earlier example is that it is equipped with twin bayonet lampholders, which would have run two 100 Watt GLS (incandescent tungsten filament) lamps when in use - sadly, the lamps are missing in the modern era, leaving the lantern disused, and have been since 2009 (at least). Later incarnations of this lantern employed a single 80 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) lamp instead, with a translucent bowl being added as a means of protecting the lamp against rain splashes, which could cause it to explode through thermal shock.

The Estate Minor column is situated near to the junction with Yardley Road, just off Charley Wood Road itself.

The lantern comprises a wide circular canopy and spun enamelled reflector supported by a saddle-shaped post-top bracket.

The two lampholders are still visible in the central gap in the reflector, complete with the corroded caps from the last lamps that they ran. Originally, a narrow Perspex collar would have surrounded the two lamps as a basic means of diffusing the sideways output from the lantern - the fixings for this are still visible.

The use of a sheet steel inspection door to the column also suggests that this is an earlier example - later doors were aluminium instead.

The second Survivor is situated further to the west, near Lees Road, and comprises a short section of curved steel pipe that supports a Holophane 'Bi-Way Refractor' lantern, also dating from the early 1950s.

The steelwork is in relatively poor condition, with rusting visible, particularly to its upper section.

The glass bowl is in need of a clean, but is intact, although one of the wing nuts used in securing its support frame to the rest of the lantern body is missing.

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