Fluorescent Lights
Leigh, Lancs
Taken Summer 2000
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RemovedChecked on "as of" date (either in person or via latest GSV available), removal happened as late as that date or before
as of 2017
Update Aug 2017 At some point this year, this light has been removed, leaving just the pole and the remains of the fixture pole mount adaptor.
These pictures were
taken on what is now a taxi-rank in the centre of town. I don't know if this is representative of what used to light this town years ago, or if this flourescent light is a one-off.As far as I can see, there are three five foot tubes in there, from the righhand picture you can see these have bayonet end caps. This light doesn't work any more. Update Jan 2003- Simon Cornwell tells me this luminaire could be made by GEC, possibly a GEC Z8370.
RemovedChecked on "as of" date (either in person or via latest GSV available), removal happened as late as that date or before
as of 2010 on
I've just included these two because they were taken in Leigh, too. A couple of streetlight problems for all to see, firstly a 'dayburner'. Second, both the bowl and lamp are missing from this Phosco LPS fixture.
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Taken 5-Sept-2001
RemovedChecked on "as of" date (either in person or via latest GSV available), removal happened as late as that date or before
as of 2001
This is on the A640 leading into Huddersfield. I've not got a bigger picture, this one was grabbed from the car as I went past. There are 3 of them still there, on cast iron poles and by the looks of it having one or two two foot flourescent tubes in them- you can just see that they are quite ornate (look above the bollard). The council was in the process of redoing the centre of this road, so I don't suppose they'll be there much longer. None of them work any more.
Warrington
Taken 25- Jan 2003
RemovedChecked on "as of" date (either in person or via latest GSV available), removal happened as late as that date or before
as of May 2017
Update Jul 2024: Latest GSV suggests this CFL was removed by 2017 for Philips Luma LED. The whole strech all the way back to Culcheth has been done.
This is the Warrington end of what starts out in Culcheth as
Wigshaw Lane, ending up eventually in Winwick as Myddleton Lane. It's a country road for most of its length, and had just about every example of discharge light source there. HPS,
LPS, MH, MV and for a hundred yards or so at the Winwick end pictured, compact fluorescent luminaires. They are 55W single- loop CF lamps of a
warm-white temperature. The luminaires are Philips FGS105, says Colin Grimes. I'm assuming the council is using this as an experiment to see how well CF works as a streetlighting light source in the real world. I have to say I'm not too impressed. Despite the lamps being quite a low brightness 'non-point' source, due to the poor optical control of the luminaires there is still quite a lot of glare- as a result it 'feels' quite dark...there were also quite a few lamps out after only a year or so...reliability may be an issue with CF here. I'll watch this one with interest.
