Lamp post outside 11 Lord North Street

A gas street light comprising a Brompton-type column, erected by 1914, with a Rochester-type lantern installed 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 ‘Brompton’ column with acanthus leaves at the base and top and topped with an extension shaft and an Upright Rochester lantern. The square base of the column has an oval plaque number 6526 on one side and on the other, the letters St I E W. 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. This whole assembly is suspended in an iron cradle with two curved uprights projecting from the clock box. These uprights retain some of their original decorative ironwork scrolls, which were typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.