Off Shaftesbury Street, Rose Hill, Osmaston, Derby With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering these Survivors. Located in the car park of the building that once served as the mess room for Sir Francis Ley's Malleable Castings Vulcan Ironworks (one of the few surviving remnants of the once-sprawling Ironworks site) is a short steel pole that is installed into an adjacent staircase, and supports a utilitarian post-top lantern that is similar in appearance to the classic Falks 'Beaufort' design. Along with this, the building itself is home to two ELECO HW-671/1 top-entry fittings, though only one of these is in any way still intact in the modern era. The remains of a third, unidentified, fitting, are also present.
The post-top lantern is unlikely to have been used in many years, but still appears largely intact.
Unlike the Beaufort, this lantern features slightly cranked support tubes.
A large incandescent tungsten filament (GLS) lamp remains installed in the centre of the lantern. It may have been surrounded by a bowl originally, but if one did exist, it is long gone now.
The most intact of the three HW-671/1s is to be found around the front of the building, attached to a rather makeshift bracket fabricated from a length of steel conduit and some angle iron.
A large Perspex hemispherical shade surrounds the lamp.
A GLS lamp remains fitted here too, but is in a rather grubby condition.
A rather more ornate corner bracket supports the second example - or at least, what remains of it.
The shade and lamp are both missing here, and the cable that once supplied the fitting is severed.
The little that remains of the third fitting is attached to another Heath-Robinson looking bracket, with the fitting's former Mineral Insulated cable secured to the outreach using insulation tape.
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