Lamp post outside Charing Cross Police Station

The lamp post outside Charing Cross Police Station is a gas street light from 1910. It features a tapering, fluted cast iron column, known as model 1275 or the 'Eddystone', and an Upright Rochester lantern likely manufactured by Sugg Lighting Limited in the 1980s.

The column has the Westminster City Council crest embossed on one side and the royal cypher G V R along with the date 1910 on the other side. Additional plaques, including an illegible serial number, indicate the column was made by Revo Tipton. The lantern includes a circular, weatherproof chimney above an inverted, six-mantle burner enclosed in teardrop-shaped glass with a drainage hole at the base. The main body of the lantern is supported by a pair of upright arms that extend at right angles from the cast iron control clock box, which is marked with the name SUGG. These arms also support a horizontal enamelled steel reflector that supplies gas to the burner and feature decorative scrollwork.