Lamp post opposite the Strand Palace Hotel

A gas street light comprising a column dated 1910, with an upright Rochester lantern manufactured by William Sugg and Company Limited, 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 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 and the manfacturer's name: SUGG. On the other side is the royal monogram G V R and a date of 1910. 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 retain their original decorative ironwork scrolls, which were typical of interwar Rochester lanterns.