Lamp post outside Charing Cross Police Station

A gas street light comprising a column dated 1910, with an Upright Rochester lantern manufactured by Sugg Lighting Limited, probably in the 1980s.

MATERIALS: cast iron lamp post with a glazed lantern of iron and spun aluminium.

DESCRIPTION: the lamp post consists of a tapering, fluted column, identified as model 1275 in the William Sugg catalogue and known as the 'Eddystone', with an Upright Rochester lantern. The base of the column has the Westminster City Council crest embossed on one side. On the other side is the royal cypher G V R and a date of 1910. Below this, additional plaques bear the serial number (illegible) and the name of the column manufacturer: Revo Tipton. The lantern has a circular, weatherproof chimney above an inverted, six-mantle burner in a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure with a drainage hole to its base. The main body is supported on a pair of upright arms, which project at right-angles from the cast iron control clock box and pass the horizontal enamelled steel reflector to provide the gas supply to the burner. These arms have decorative scrollwork and the clock box bears the name: SUGG.