Bracket looks like new phil, has this been restored or is it original? Also would this of had a clear bowl originally?

had to do a major rebuild on the swan neck, it got dropped and had shatterd down to the steel pipe within, stuck each chunk of concrete back with polyurothane sealant clamped over night, filled the missing bits with resin and pushed sand a pebbles in the mix to blend in, you carnt tell now its been up for 5 years. The bowl would have been clear when new yes, its made of perspex which goes milky with age and the suns UV rays

Well fair play you did a perfect job as you really can't tell!

i recall seeing these up in the street as a kid in the early 80's

Were they running B5s phil??

this was the last example in my town of this column, extreamly lucky to get my hands on it, no kev, it had a late 70's GEC Z9530 on it 35 sox, but would have looked like in the photo when installed, many were still tungsten till 1988 here

That is amazing Phil

thanks , got a few more simelar to this too !

Bet these were fun to thread cables down years ago?

had a bit of a job getting the rubber twin round the swan, kept snagging, i think they pre wired the swan neck on the ground, then fed the cable down the shaft then lowerd the neck in place, thats what i did on the others

The MBF we had here use to also carry a RT P42 cell on the lantern!, fed with 2 pieces of 1.0 T+E!, bet it was an even bigger job getting that round!

I always managed to tie on when ive rewired these in the past... you can normally persevere and poke it down eventually!

Or just use singles! , whats the tube size under the concrete?

its only 3/4 BSP on these, so small, could have been inch, carnt recall now

Saying that though, these were in the days before earths?

no, they had earths, either a bare single with a flat rubber twin, or standard rubber twin+earth cable, the earth off the main is soldered onto the lead sheath below the cut out, which is soldered onto a brass earth block

Soldered!, love it, and I bet they did it with a blow torch!

Beautiful, Eligent and beatuiful

Cool old light!

Sadly, a very rare sight anywhere now. I recall loads of installations like this, concrete columns everywhere, all now pretty much extinct. Such a shame we don't see quality like this any more!