Woodwell, Woodford, Twywell, North Northamptonshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of this Survivor. Attached to a wooden utility pole at the end of a single track lane that leads to a terrace of houses is an AC Ford bracket supporting an AC 810 lantern, which could accommodate a 60 - 200 Watt GLS (incandescent tungsten filament), 80 / 125 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) or 70 Watt SON (high pressure sodium) lamp. Unlike sister product the AC 850, if a discharge lamp were employed in the AC 810, the control gear required to run it had to be installed remotely; there being no space to accommodate gear within the lantern itself. This is the only street light in the area - no other examples exist on the lane, and there did not appear to be any further lights by the houses.

Oddly, the bracket seems to have been transferred from the corner of the end terrace property to this new location; Google Street View imagery captures the installation in its earlier position.

Of course, the 90 degree corner of a property is a rather different shape to the curve of a wooden pole, and so the bracket does not fit correctly in its new location. The lower fixing point is not used at all, and the casting supporting the left-hand one has broken (probably from the force of the bolt being exerted without proper support from the structure to which the bracket is affixed), meaning that the weight of this whole installation is supported by a single bolt - hopefully, it has a strong fixing into the pole!

The bowl employed is of the same design as was used on later AC 850s, as well as the top-entry AC 888.

Given the existing assortment of cabling (both electricity and telecommunications) already clipped to the pole, finding space for the bracket amongst these cables must have proven challenging.

Production of the AC 810 ceased when the casting patterns used to produce its canopy were destroyed in a fire at the AC Ford factory.

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