Here's a view originally posted by sotonsteve in the Website Discussion Thread...
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.
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...
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!
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!