3 lamp technologies in use

As some of you have seen in person, my garden is massive, its 100 metres easily. From first installing a SOX lantern on the house back in 2012, originally in the form of a GEC Z9582 'nightwatch', I had been trying to get light up the rest of the garden. That Nightwatch lasted till around 2016, when I replaced it with a Mk1 Philips ME35 (XGS201) with shallower bowl to try and cut down on light spill into my bedroom window.

Fast forward to 2018, when I got my new lanterns shed, I took the opportunity to install a Ansell SON Bollard given to me by Kev, but this now left me with a large dark patch mid way along the garden. Now I had both SOX and SON installed, I decided the third light should be mercury, to keep in with a running theme of 'non LED' and 'classic lighting'.

2020 comes round, I then decided it was time to get me a new workshed, giving me ample opportunity to install a mercury bollard mid way. To that end, when I wired the shed up, I fitted all the electrical gear needed in readiness for the day I eventually find, and install said bollard. Not long after, I decided to replace the ME35 with the flat glass XGS201 seen in this photo, mounted on a dedicated bracket owing to the previous bracket coming away from the wall slightly. Another year later in 2021, I was given the Newlec bollard previously posted here, geared as a 70w SON bollard, immediately converted to 80w MBF.

Together, the garden is now lit very well, ideally I need to move the MBF bollard about 6 to 8 feet further up the garden, but overall its a very pleasing, and now rare sight to see, owing to everything being LED now.