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mazeteam · **Posted:** Mon Oct 07, 2013 2:56 am

Looking at the aerial view, it might have been a central reservation column, the other side being a slip road of sorts.

Urbis Saturn Land · **Posted:** Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:34 pm

Mazeteam wrote:

I remember those odd possible GEC lanterns from when I was there, I also took photos of the heritage lanterns from the city walls.... near the racecourse there is an Iridium mounted on a very very short column.

I walked past the racecourse but I didn't see the short mounted Iridium.

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If you walked the full length of the walls, did you spot the sliced 2000? It's on the canal pathway below the walls as it goes round a corner, no streetview image but it's roughly in this area (other side of canal to SV car).

I walked most of it as I started where the heritage clock thing is then went in an anticlockwise direction. Tried looking for any oddities, couldn't find the sliced WTRL 2000 but I did find a smashed four windowed, one piece bowl lantern as shown in one of the links that I have provide don the previous page on the opposite side of the road from the possible GEC lanterns.

I'm planning on visiting Chester again sometime soon, so I might be able to find a few more hidden lanterns.

mazeteam · **Posted:** Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:53 am

The titchy column is here:
https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=53.185323 ... 95,,1,0.76

And we know lighting changes at local authority boundaries, well this is the change seen between England and Wales
https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=53.180475 ... ,,0,-11.82

High up 2600
https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=53.179138 ... 4,,0,-9.35

mazeteam · **Posted:** Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:38 am

All of Manchester could be going LED
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... ld-6290787

sotonsteve · **Posted:** Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:06 pm

mazeteam wrote:

All of Manchester could be going LED
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... ld-6290787

That is ridiculous, Manchester has a street lighting PFI, and now the council are saying they are going to pay the operators of the PFI to essentially replace their 'new' lighting for which private finance was used. If it really saves money the private company running the PFI would fund LED replacements themselves and pocket a proportion of the savings. What a waste.

mazeteam · **Posted:** Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:38 am

I was thinking along similar lines myself. Whilst Amey and the council have had trials of LED's, mainly in the Oxford Road corridor, mass uptake has been nonexistent. I had attributed this to the thought that because the PFI is several years in, beyond the 'bulk replacements' stage, essentially redoing all the work once again would be economically unviable.

Phosco152 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:51 pm

Eden District Council unveils footway lighting plan

Eccles.Express · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:48 am

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Some of the gems recently lost in Salford.....

Phosco152 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:13 pm

GEC Z9481 on Stanton 7, Phosco P122 (SO60) on a CU column and a GEC Z9484 "boat" again on a Stanton 7 column. Just as well that was replaced, look at the spalling!

Excellent pictures, welcome to Ukastle. There is a "welcome thread" here if you want to tell us more about yourself.

sotonsteve · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:20 pm

The GEC 'boat' is actually a Z9486 seeing as it is top entry!

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