Lamp post on corner of 81 Tufton Street

A gas street light comprising an Eddystone column dated 1910 with a Rochester-type lantern manufacured 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 on one side and on the other side, an oval plaque number 7013. Below this, an additional plaque bears the name of the column manufacturer: Revo Tipton. The lantern has a circular drum and wide 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’. This whole assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two curved uprights projecting from the clock box. These uprights retain most of their original decorative ironwork scrolls typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.