Off High Street, Clapham, London Borough of Lambeth With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Installed in a short, dead-end alleyway (known as Cranmer Court on older maps) is a 15 ft (5 m) Concrete Utilities' 'Byway' column with Arc 3 top-entry bracket, and an ELECO HW-505 lantern. This lantern may have run a 45 - 60 Watt SO/H / SOI/H (low pressure sodium) lamp originally; the later 35 Watt SOX lamp superseding these in the 1960s - the same period as when this column would have been installed. Given the location, the column's installation is surprising, although the fact that it was still in place in July 2025 is less so, as the alleyway is used to accommodate vehicles for adjacent properties, and so there is no way of a maintenance vehicle reaching it to be able to remove it. For the same reason, the lantern is probably not operational - although a ladder could be rested against the adjacent wall, even this would be tricky, owing to the density of the parked vehicles along here.

The picture demonstrates just how hemmed in the column is.

The bracket is in poor condition, with a large chunk of the concrete having fallen away.

The lantern, however, is in surprisingly good condition - even a lamp still exists within it.

Unlike the more symmetrically-shaped HW-747, the HW-505 features a flatter back section.

The adhesive securing one of the Perspex refractor panels to the inside of the bowl has worn out, causing the panel to slide into the underside of the bowl.

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