Lamp post outside Romney House East

A gas street light comprising a 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 column with acanthus leaves at the base and floral mouldings and topped with a short extension shaft and an Upright Rochester lantern. The tapered squared base of the column has an oval plaque number 6503 on one side and on the other, probably the manufacturer’s name (illegible). 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 label ‘SUGG’. This whole assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two curved uprights projecting from the clock box. These uprights include decorative ironwork scrolls, which were typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.