Off Hoole Road, Newtown, Chester, Cheshire With thanks to LeoLampposts for discovering these Survivors. Installed on a short access road that leads to a Builders' Merchants are two 15 ft (5 m) tubular steel columns, both of which support the remains of ELECO 'Welwyn Mk III' HW-851 / Crompton Star I lanterns, designed for running a 100 - 200 Watt GLS (incandescent tungsten filament) or 80 - 125 Watt MB/U / MBF (mercury vapour) lamp. Both columns are in very poor condition, with both being heavily rusted - they probably date back to when the access road led to the railway line, and a large goods warehouse.

Both installations are identical in appearance, right down to the levels of dereliction.

The 'brackets' are fabricated from lengths of pipe and couplers.

These lanterns did not feature bowls, even when in service - a simple prismatic glass refractor dome would have surrounded the lamp. An Edison Screw (ES / E27) lampholder remains within this lantern, with the cap of the last lamp to be used still being attached to the thread.

The column doors (and their apertures) are an unusual design - rather than matching the curve of the base section, these doors are oblong in shape, and stand slightly proud of the columns.

The second installation looks especially as if it is a relic from a bygone era with the modern tubular steel columns and LED lanterns in the background.

The top of this column's rusting appears especially bad - perhaps, water was able to seep through the tapering section above, and then become trapped within the column structure.

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