Lamp post on the corner of Garrick Street and Rose Street

A gas street light comprising an Eddystone column manufactured by William Sugg and Company Limited and dated 1910, with a replacement Upright Rochester lantern manufactured by Sugg Lighting Limited and probably installed around 1980.

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

DESCRIPTION: the lamp post consists of a tapering, fluted, 'Eddystone' column with a late-C20 Upright Rochester lantern. The base of the column is embossed with the Westminster City Council crest on one side and on the other, the royal cypher G V R and a date of 1910. The bottom of the base bears the manufacturer's name: SUGG. The lantern has a circular, weather-proof 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 through the horizontal enamelled steel reflector to provide the gas supply to the burner. Two additional, stabilising arms project from the clock box, indicating that this is a late C20 variant of the Rochester design.