Introduction

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This website focuses on My Collection of Streetlighting Lanterns, that I have aquired over the last 25 years. It chiefly documents my own collection of Street Lanterns wether it is a Vintage 1930s E.S.L.A. Side Road lantern for use with a common Filament lamp through to a Modern Philips Traffic Vision Motorway Lantern for use with a 400w SON-T Plus High Pressure Sodium Lamp.

I also have a Wardle Liverpool which was the first ever Sodium Cut off Lantern developed with conjunction of Liverpool City Council and Wardle Engineering Ltd in 1933 for the Early 140w SO/H Sodium Lamps, and also a Unknown Lantem, which were popular in Liverpool and I have no information on, or I cannot Identify.

Here you see two first Sodium lighting Installations in the mid 1930's

1st are Wardle Liverpool's on CU Avenue 3D Concrete Columns with Arc 1 Brackets on Cooper Avenue Liverpool,

2nd are Wardle Liverpools Installed on Catenary Wire Systems on Queen's Drive Liverpool,

Here you see a restored 1930's Wardle Liverpool Street Light

Below is a List of Street lights by Manufacturer by Alphabetical order

AC-Ford to Fitzgerald Lighting......................................................................Page 1

GEC (Street Lighting) Ltd to Metropolitan Vickers Lighting...........................Page 2

Philips Lighting to Relite Lighting.................................................................Page 3

REVO Lighting to Thorn Lighting...................................................................Page 4

Urbis Lighting to WRTL Lighting....................................................................Page 5

Unknown Street Lights...................................................................................Page 6

Street Lighting  by J.M. Waldram

Here you see a Ideal reference Book to Anyonw who is in the StreetLighting Industry, Historian, Collector, Enthusiast, Although it was published in 1952 and will not comply to modern Codes of Pracice, it is Ideal for reference for Street Lighing which was installed afer the Post War years and can be found in some areas of the UK today, this book is very comprehensive and covers all aspects of Street Lighting, Lanterns Both Gas and Electric, Lamps and Gas Mantles, Columns Brackets, etc Control Gear and Switching Devices, Road Layouts and other Street Lighting relaited subjects, this Book was published in 1952 which is a Ideal reference guide especially for vintage lamps such as the MA/V, MB/U Mercury and the SO/H sodium lamp as well as Fluorescent tubes and gear I was even suprissed ho streets were still using the Filament Lamp up to 1500 watts as well as the use of Gas lighting..