This image of Tilehurst Road in Reading appears in Public Lighting Engineer, March 1960, courtesy of Simon Cornwell.
It shows brand new S&L columns with the trademark Reading curved brackets. Lantern type is mercury but the make is unfortunately unknown.
Tilehurst Road Reading, August 2009.
Tilehurst Road has undergone a large amount of redevelopment and many of the original buildings from 50 years ago no longer exist. I am not 100% certain it is exactly the same location (and not helped by trying to compare with a night photograph) but the kerb line on the left of the road (the bus stop layby and the corner beyond it) and the positioning of the columns is very similar, and the only location along the road where such a similarity occurs.
The columns now have Urbis ZX3’s but these columns are also know to have been fitted with
GR150s, GEC Z9554s and SGS203s elsewhere in Reading. Hopefully I will eventually unearth a picture of the original mercury lanterns that were once fitted to these columns.