Lamp post outside 20 Great College Street

A gas street light comprising a 1910 Eddystone column with a Rochester-type lantern manufactured by William Sugg and Company, probably around 1930.

MATERIALS: cast iron lamp post with a glazed lantern of iron, spun copper and enamelled steel.

DESCRIPTION: the lamp post consists of a tapering, fluted, ‘Eddystone’ column topped with an Upright Rochester lantern. The base of the column has the Westminster City Council crest on one side and on the other, the royal cypher G V R and a date of 1910. The lantern has a circular drum and rain-shield of copper above an inverted, six-mantle burner in a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure with a drainage hole to its base an enamelled steel reflector with the lettering ‘SUGG GAS LIGHT’. This whole assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two curved uprights projecting from the clock box. These uprights have lost some of their original decorative ironwork scrolls typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.