Off High Street, Stoke Goldington, Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire Attached to the side of the former Lamb public house within the centre of this village is a short outreach wall bracket supporting an ELECO HW-505 lantern, which would have provided illumination to the adjacent car park. Although old enough to have run a 45 - 60 Watt SO/H / SOI/H (low pressure sodium) lamp originally, nowadays, a 35 Watt SOX lamp (which is the same physical size as the 60 Watt lamp was, and operates on the same control gear) is employed instead. With the pub having closed down (but plans are afoot for it to reopen, at the time of writing), the lantern probably does not work for the time being, but appears all ready to do so once again, one day.

The lantern does not contain its own lamp control gear; instead, the rusty box that can be seen down and to the right of the lantern could be where the components are housed.

The Perspex bowl has become slightly translucent through age and exposure to years of UV radiation from the sun. The side refractor panels (which would have been glued in place originally) appear to be missing.

Unlike the sister HW-846 lantern, the HW-505 is more blunt at the end that faces backwards.

The bracket (and therefore, the lantern too) is positioned centrally on the building's apex.

The lamp is just visible through the front of the lantern.

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