Hi Chris, There are several streets round here where there have been recent replacements, I'll have to keep my eye out for them removing the old ones. Thanks, ...
Hi Chris, Thanks for the heads-up. I've been after one of these glass bowls for a long time. I've put a starting bid on and will see how I do. By the way, I...
Hi Simon, And welcome to the group. I have a spare Z5670 that you are welcome to (the 5760 was a wall-mounted bulkhead). The canopy is missing but the rest is...
I have mostly leak transformer types, modern Transtec/WRTL ones as well as GEC Z1616s and the chunky Philips 4045's. Some have the original capacitors with...
Hi all, In this week's update, more lamps have entered the collection - including an Edison filament lamp dating from 'a few years ago', shall we say! There's...
... I would certainly like to have a leak transformer type, and a capacitor of similar vintage would be nice to, rather than a modern one. Do you still have a...
I've added an album in the photos section(Portsmouth streetlights) with a few pics in as a taster of some of the relics and unusual stuff which is being...
Hi John, Yes i would be interested in that top-entry Beta 5, thanks! I've been wanting one for quite a long time, as they're still very common in York... We...
Hi steve, Some of those installations you've pictured are, unique, to say the least! How tall is that double-bracketed column at Knowsley crescent? it only ...
Hi Stephen, It's odd that they are leaving those column stumps - all I can think is that when they were columns, they also contained isolators for subcircuits...
Hi Simon, Looks like you've got a few interesting bits and pieces in your neck of the woods, did you say you had contacts for Colas? Cheers, Pete. phosco152...
Hi Pete, Yes, I was interested in ones with the black plastic clips! Slowly but surely i will get my own copy of every streetlight in York :D regs, Chris. ... ...
Rotherham do fit 150w Jet lanterns to 8mtr and indeed 10mtr columns, they do look rather small too. I dont think they will be fitted for much lomger though. ...
There are 150w Jet lanterns in Rotherham. They are fitted to 10mtr columns mostly. I think they will be not fitted much longer though. ... From: steve turner...
Hi Chris, Have you got the side entry version? Cheers, Pete. Chris Nelson <nel_boy001@...> wrote: Hi Pete, Yes, I was interested in ones with the black...
... Even if you had rescued it, you would still be looking for a new bowl (there was a big hole in the one pictured). ... The bracket is a "Brighton 'C'...
Knowsley Cres is indeed only about 3m tall! I was gutted I didn't get the Phosco 107, despite the hole, it was apart from that complete even with a refractor...
Certainly good to see fluted concrete columns - they used to be 'common' in Lambeth and there are still a couple at Coopersale near Epping, the latter...
Groaning as I was recently at the new streetscape of Otley, West Yorkshire, now replete with zillions of galvanised columns that look so awful. I was thinking...
Portsmouth has always been silver, then they went for unpainted galvanised, then back to silver painted in the last 10 years, and now we are back to unpainted...
As Mikey points out, lots of places developed their own distinctive colour schemes. Many must have been lost with the introduction of concrete columns....
Hi Mikey / Simon / Peter / All, The steel column paint schemes around my neck of the woods have changed a little over the years... The London Borough of...
... green ... of the ... though a ... Peter, It's interesting that you've mentioned this. I always thought that the colour of the main-road replacement columns...
The best example that I know of is in Sunderland, where the lighting columns along the seafront and towards Monkwearmouth are painted red and white (red base,...
Hi Steven/Peter/All, Looking at the RAL colour chart, Edinburgh's columns are 'olive green'. In most cases this has faded to a dull brown colour. Having said...
Yes, the colour was something of a greenish brown when new. I think the colour used by the North British Railway on its locos around 100 years ago was...
Hi Mikey; all, Columns in Derby are now being painted a kind of blue/grey colour - prior to that they used a dark green (actually known as 'Derbyshire Green')...
So it IS green that's used in Edinburgh then, John. My eyes haven't been deceiving me for all these years! Must remember to call it "olive green" in future...
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