Off Pennwood Lane, Wombourne, Goldthorn Park, South Staffordshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of these Survivors. Standing on a piece of land that separates the car park for Penn Golf Course from the Barley Mow Public House is an underground-supplied wooden pole that supports a GEC Z8430CM lantern, for 250 - 400 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) and, later, SON (high pressure sodium) lamps. Within the car park itself is a sheet aluminium column; possibly, made to an imperial size, as it appears too tall for six metres, but too short for eight metres. This supports a Thorn Alpha 3 lantern, for the same lamp types and wattages. The equipment may have been erected second-hand here after being removed from street lighting service elsewhere, given its mismatched appearance.

Three separate steel conduits emerge from the ground and pass up the pole, suggesting that the main incoming feed could be one cable, with the other two then feeding other equipment, including, possibly, the aluminium column.

Two cast control boxes are also attached to the pole - the upper one also being a GEC product, and the lower one being from AC Ford - with one of these being likely to contain the control gear for operating the lamp in the Z8430CM. Some of the worst wiring I have ever seen connects the control box to the lantern, using a combination of in-line crimp terminals and insulation tape. Notice that the lantern isn't even attached to the pole using a conventional bracket - instead, strips of steel have been bolted to the canopy, which are then screwed to the pole at the other end.

The separate wooden pole supporting the overhead electricity and telephone cabling could be (or have been) the source of supply for this Frankenstein installation.

The prismatic glass refractor bowl is intact, if a little grubby internally.

What appear to be further telephone cables (albeit, disconnected and abandoned) are also attached to this pole.

I would be interested to know exactly how the top support strut attaches to the Z8430CM's canopy - I assume that there must be a long bolt passing through, with a hole drilled in the aluminium.

The presence of LED floodlights attached to the aluminium column suggest that the Alpha 3 is no longer in operation.

A non-original steel bracket is attached, along with (what appears to be) a clamp bracket for an earlier floodlight.

The bowl here is intact too, although one of the two clips has disengaged.

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