Newcastle Street, Stonefield, Stone, Staffordshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of these Survivors. Attached to a building that was (historically) part of the John Joule & Sons Ale Stores warehouse is a rare open-bottomed side-entry lantern resembling an ELECO 'Goldenray Mk II', designed for running a 140 Watt SO/H lamp - the forerunner to the 90 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamp. The lantern is likely to date from the late 1940s / early 1950s, though sadly, it lies abandoned; its last lamp having long since been removed, leaving the lantern as an empty shell.
The lantern was (presumably) installed here to assist workers using the loading bays after nightfall - the staircase and doorway being a later conversion of one of the loading bay shutter doors to a staff access point. Today, a newer floodlight installed a little further along the wall serves the same purpose.
Despite the abandonment, the bracket was treated to the same coat of dark green paint that was applied to much of the building's features at some point after August 2023, replacing an earlier blue finish.
Not only is the lamp missing; very little remains of the lamp's support bracket too.
The lampholder is visible in the rear section of the lantern.
No other wall brackets were visible on this face of the building, and none are present on the rear either (this faces the Trent and Mersey Canal, making installing any external lighting impractical).
The overall condition of the lantern is good, considering its age and years of disuse, although slight crazing has developed on the two Perspex refractor panels.
The second Survivor is located a little further along Newcastle Street, and is installed atop a column that is now in a yard used for car washing, although historical mapping identifies a "Council Depot" adjacent, so the yard may, formerly, have been a car park for council vehicles. The lantern is the incarnation of the Revo Lucidor that saw the lamp control gear housed remotely, minus its bowl.
A Philips 90 Watt SOX lamp remains fitted. Judging by the design of the front end, the lamp could date back to the 1970s, suggesting that this lantern is also long-abandoned.
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