Off Wilsthorpe Road, Long Eaton, Erewash, Derbyshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of these Survivors. Within the grounds of a small industrial estate, which historically, were part of a larger site for the vocational training and rehabilitation for service personnel returning to civilian life, and disabled people, after the Second World War, and was owned by the Ministry of Labour & National Service, are two lighting installations; one of which is definitely abandoned, and the other is probably in a similar state. The older of the two columns may well date to the site's former use, and comprises an incomplete 15 ft (5 m) Stanton 7 concrete column that has lost its bracket. The second is a later 5 m hockey stick column, probably dating to the 1980s, and supporting a GEC Z9536 lantern, for 55 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps as a maximum.
The derelict Stanton column stands alongside one of the former Ministry of Labour buildings. The later addition of some decorative pampas grass provides good camouflage to the old column.
The top portion of the column, and all of its bracket (unless a post-top lantern were employed) are missing, and were probably cut away. As the concrete all looks uniformly weathered, and the structural steel rebar rods are rusty, the column has probably lain in this state for decades.
Keeping with local column manufacturers, the hockey stick is a Fabrikat product. This is to be found closer to Wilsthorpe Road, alongside a single-story building that probably once served as the site's gatehouse and security office.
The Z9536's bowl is heavily waterlogged - or at least, has been in the past.
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