96D. Ashbourne Road, Shottle and Postern, Cowers Lane, Amber Valley, Derbyshire Attached to a very low concrete plinth at the entrance to a vehicle repair garage is a Thorn Gamma 6 post-top lantern, which was looking somewhat the worse for wear by July 2025. The road is otherwise unlit at this point, and so the Gamma 6 was probably introduced as a way of illuminating the entrance to the garage area. I have a vague recollection that a second example may have existed on another plinth at the other end of the narrow verge between the garage site and the carriageway, although if this memory is correct, it had gone by August 2009, according to Google Street View.

The bowl has slipped down past the base casting.

No photocell is fitted; the plastic cap holding the canopy in place having a solid centre (this would be hollow on examples equipped with a NEMA photocell socket).

The inside of the bowl is filled with various pieces of material around the base casting, preventing any lamp control gear from being seen. If gear does exist, the lantern is probably wired to run an 80 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) lamp, given that the bridge between the two vertical support rods is metal (later versions were plastic) - high pressure sodium (SON) versions would have the lamp ignitor situated alongside the lampholder.

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