Waterside North, Boultham, Lincoln Located within a car park are two abandoned 25 ft (8 m) Stanton 6 concrete columns; neither of which retains any sort of bracket these days. One of the two columns did support a later bracket fashioned from steel channel attached to the remains of the original bracket pipe, which then supported a couple of floodlights, but this was lost after 2014, and no attempt to attach new lighting units has been made since then.

One of the columns is to be found at the entrance to the car park; this is the one that supported the floodlights.

The concrete is damaged at the top of the column (perhaps, some of it was chiselled away to expose more of the internal pipe), and a vertical crack runs for a short distance down the shaft. The old bracket pipe is heavily corroded, and probably snapped through the additional stress placed on it by the floodlights and their bracket.

Interestingly, the columns are not the same age - this one features the later narrower base that employed a flat cast aluminium door, which is now missing, dating it to the late 1950s or early 1960s. A relatively modern (much newer than the column) Henley Electricity Company service cut-out remains in the base (I hope that it isn't still live!) with the fuse carrier missing. A separate steel wire armoured cable terminates into a Metalclad-type electrical enclosure with a 20 mm compression gland emerging from the top - presumably, this modification dates from when the floodlights were installed.

The second column is to be found in the far corner of the car park, on a diagonal to this one.

The top of this one also looks rather precarious, with the exposed section of the internal steel pipe appearing to have rotted away, with two wires emerging from it.

This example has a wider base with a hinged steel door, meaning that it will date back to some point from the 1930s until the early 1950s. Although the resemblance to a bin is rather minimal, some rather confused soul has mistaken a break in the concrete to the right of the door as a means of disposing of a bag containing their dog's faeces - delightful.

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