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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:45 pm 
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This page shows 1964 views of Ledbury along with modern 2007 equivalents. In the first picture the concrete column is still there along with the same lantern it appears. Towards the bottom of the page are some lovely old top entry mercury installations which have all disappeared in the 2007 images :cry:


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:52 pm 
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Several of those pictures have Revo Myron columns in them. Indust and I spotted a surviving one this week in our area, here.


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That column appears to be in the line of the fence so if I was the owner of the house I would ask for it and stick it in the middle of the garden. It would look nicer than the usual metal swanneck or Victorian style columns people have in their gardens.


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I really like those Revo Myron columns. Interesting to see that one in the first picture which looks the same as it did in 1964 which is quite strange considering all the others have been replaced. I spotted a few Revo Prefects in there too, mounted on telegraph poles and in one picture a strange mix of top-entry mercury/tungsten and what looks like a 'newer' (at the time) CU concrete column with top-entry sodium lantern, proving that even in those days light sources were getting mixed!


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:44 pm 
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Now a road which has been discussed many times on here;

Before (A27) 2005/6
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After (A27) 2008
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Notice almost all of the columns supporting the MA60's have been removed from the middle of the carriageway leaving just the slip road columns.

Before (A27 roundabout) 2005/6
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After (A27 roundabout) 2008
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Notice once again some of the columns have been removed plus all the columns around the roundabout itself, some of which held GEC Bricks.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:19 pm 
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The bottom picture shows the roundabout in its current state after the traffic lights controlling it were modified and the lane markings changed and some of the slip roads widened. The roundabout is lit from the inside edge with Iridiums on new 6m columns - to light the cycleway around its inner edge. Lighting columns still exist on the outer edge but these are new 12m columns again with Iridiums.

When the old roundabout columns were removed, most of them were actually MA60s, there weren't many, if any, Bricks left at this location unlike the neighbouring roundabout at Portcreek which had several.


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When looking on Google maps you can see about 6 bricks at that roundabout and the rest were MA60's.


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Can you repost your 1st roundabout picture and mark with a cross which roundabout columns have bricks on them?

This image taken on 21/04/07 shows the work in progress on the roundabout and the twin bracket MA60s still there on the A27. Some of the 6m Iridium columns have been installed but the old outside columns all with MA60s still remain.

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Phosco152 wrote:
Can you repost your 1st roundabout picture and mark with a cross which roundabout columns have bricks on them?


No i can't be bothered too.

The images on the different maps don't all date from the same time and are quite blurry but i do remember 3 of the columns on the south side of the roundabout had Bricks and some on the other side have outlines which don't look rounded enough to be MA60's.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:40 pm 
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Here's a view originally posted by sotonsteve in the Website Discussion Thread...

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It's a view of Kirby Road in Walton-On-The-Naze, Essex, and was taken in 1967. It is one of the only known photographs to feature the rare Phosco P149 lantern.

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Fast forward 43 years, and this is how Kirby Road, Walton-On-The-Naze looked earlier today!

Oh alright then, here's a colour version...

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Kirby Road, Walton-On-The-Naze, February 2010.

Sadly none of the Concrete Utilities hockey-stick columns remain. The nearest two lamp posts are octagonal columns with GEC Z9580s, probably dating from the late 1980s, and the most distant lamp post is a round hockey-stick with an MI26, which could have been installed any time over the last 20 years.

Although none of the Concrete Utilities columns exist in this view, this is not the case for some other sections of Kirby Road. In common with most other roads, it's always the outside of a bend which loses its columns first!

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This straighter section of Kirby Road, Walton-On-The-Naze, still retains all its original Concrete Utilities hockey-stick columns, but all the Phosco P149s were replaced with these Thorn Beta Fives about 30 years ago. So until another photo turns up from the archives, we'll just have to imagine how this street looked when it was lit by Phosco P149s!


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