Drapery Common, Glemsford, Babergh, Suffolk With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Attached to a wooden pole that is to be found approximately two-thirds down this road is an AC Ford top-entry pole bracket and PVC fuse box supporting a lantern from GEC's Z5590 series, which is likely to run an 80 - 125 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) lamp. Although today supplemented by heritage-style tubular steel columns supporting Urbis St Giles lanterns on swan neck brackets, this installation is likely to be left over from an earlier lighting scheme, but is likely to remain in nightly use.
As well as the lighting installation, the pole supports both overhead mains electricity conductors, as well as telecommunications cabling.
The bracket is functional in design, with no embellishments added. Curiously, at the end of the 90 degree elbow, a pipe enlarger piece to increase the pipe diameter to 1 inch BSP is fitted, before a reducer returns the diameter to 3/4 inch BSP - presumably, the local plumbing spares shop had a surplus of enlargers at the time, and offered a few at heavily discounted rates!
There are also (what look to be) two separate locknuts between the coupler and the lantern itself.
The box cover is missing, allowing the rather tightly-packed components to be seen. The relay and connector for the Royce Thompson P42 two-part photocell is located top-right, with the ballast (missing all traces of its original Philips labelling) beneath, and the capacitor to the left. The cut-out appears to be hanging loose on the backboard, supported by its incoming supply cabling.
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