Lamp post outside 24 Russell Street

A gas street light comprising a column dated 1910 by William Sugg and Company Limited, with a replacement Upright Rochester-type lantern installed by Sugg Lighting Limited, in the later C20.    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 a late-C20 Upright Rochester-type lantern.   The upper part of the base of the column has the Westminster City Council wording and crest on one side and on the other, the royal cypher G V R and a date of 1910. The lower ring is embossed with the manufacturers name SUGG.   The replacement lantern has a circular drum and rain-shield above an inverted, six-mantle burner in a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure with a drainage hole to its base. The assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two, curved stabilising uprights projecting from the clock box.