River Lane, Saltney Ferry, Flintshire With thanks to LeoLampposts for discovering these Survivors. Located at the end of River Lane, as it becomes the Chesterbank Business Park (originally, the site of a couple of Oil Works premises), are three 8 m tubular steel columns, all of which support early Philips MA 90-GO lanterns, designed for 90 Watt SOX (low pressure sodium) lamps, with the control gear located in a separate rear casting. Later examples would see the longer body, as used in versions of the MA 50, employed instead, with the control gear relocated to being within the lantern itself.
The first of the three MA 90s is at the start of the Business Park.
Sadly, both the bowl and lamp are missing from this lantern. Google Street View imagery indicates that while the bowl was still missing in 2009, the lamp may have been extant back then. A SELC (now Westire) 841 photocell, dating from the early 2000s, would have provided the automatic switching to the lantern when it worked.
Looking up into the lantern, the two bolts used to attach the rear casting to the GRP canopy section can be seen to have rusted heavily; no doubt, the relatively coastal location played a part in this.
The identification sticker is still just about still legible within the lantern.
The column door is also missing, and whilst seeing into the base is difficult, owing to the surrounding vegetation, all that existed in there was a black Lucy cut-out.
The second example was in far better overall condition, and was attached to a bracket with a longer outreach.
Both the bowl and lamp still remained in place here. Notice that there is no front bowl clip present - this was an alteration that Philips made in the mid-1990s as a way of improving the internal sealing to the bowl area.
The Royce Thompson Oasis 2000 photocell, blending in impeccably well with the summer sky, was manufactured in Week 8 of 2001 (the 19th - 25th February).
The final example was within the perimeter fence of one of the businesses, but was likely to be of the same age as the other two installations were.
The interior of this lantern appeared especially grubby. What could be the lantern's original Fisher-Karpark SS4 photocell is still fitted here.
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