33CD. St Peter's Church Walk, Lace Market, The Meadows, Nottingham With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering these Survivors. Situated adjacent the churchyard for St Peter's Church are two long-abandoned and forgotten wall-mounted street lighting installations. The brackets both appear to be Wardle products, and one of the lanterns may also be from this manufacturer, but the second one (believed to be an ELECO 'Royston') is not. The first is likely to be a Wardle 'Arran', but could be a Metropolitan-Vickers (Metrovick) 'Aldwych' instead, as the two designs were identical. Despite being products from different manufacturers, as both designs were contemporary to each other (both appearing in the late 1940s and remaining in production until the 1950s), they may have been installed together, rather than the ELECO being a later replacement.
The Arran's bracket is installed at the end of a building, towards the end of the walkway. Notice the Thorn Piazza bulkhead installed below that has required a notch to be cut in the fence in front of it to allow the two to exist in harmony...the only problem will be when access to the inside of the Piazza is required!
Presumably, the bracket was installed on this face of the building to allow the Arran to provide some illumination down the narrow alleyway behind, where the Piazza would now light. A short length of cut supply cable can be seen emerging from the open end of the bracket.
The lantern's reflector is slightly bent, while the remains of an incandescent tungsten filament (GLS) lamp are still in place within the centre of the lantern.
The enamelled disc reflector surrounding the lamp is rusty, and three rusted and damaged hooks (used for supporting a prismatic glass refractor dome) remain attached to it.
There would also have been a teardrop-shaped glass bowl surrounding both the lamp and refractor.
Moving back along the walkway, the second bracket, fitted with the Royston, is seen.
The outreach of this bracket has been lengthened using an extra piece of pipe and a coupler.
Only this bracket features a (Wardle-branded, but likely made by AC Ford) fuse / time switch box - the piece of cable emerging from the bottom-right would have connected to the first bracket, with the fuse within the box protecting both installations, and the time switch operating them.
The Royston is very similar to sister lantern the Welwyn; the difference being that the refractor dome here attaches to the lantern body using a bayonet action, whereas in the Welwyn, the refractor is supported using phosphor bronze clips and springs. Confusingly, Metrovick also sold the Welwyn as their own product (and keeping the name the same this time).
The lamp is also long gone from this lantern, although the refractor ring survives.
The protruding bay window behind the installation is likely to be the reason for the extended bracket.
A Venner time switch remains partially visible inside the wall box thanks to the front panel being slightly ajar.
Unlike the Arran, the Royston is not intended to support a bowl; the lamp and refractor would be exposed to the atmosphere.
On the other side of St Peter's Gate, on Bank Place, a single Bleeco E66 cast iron column (now topped with a Philips 'Streetfighter' SGS 101) is situated at the end of the courtyard.
The swan neck bracket would have supported another top-entry lantern originally, with the height between ground level and the lantern's lighting centre being 13 ft (3·96 m); the column itself being 10 ft 9 inches (3·28 m) in height, while the bracket would measure 3 ft 71/2 inches (1·10 m) in its own overall height.
'Bleeco Brighton' is cast into the column's inspection door. The distinctive base section makes identification simple.
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