CU Phosco P109 Lantern Installations

The CU Phosco P109 is a distinctive, large heritage lantern for use in "conservation areas, town squares, city streets and other similar situations". The P109 was previously available in SON, MBF, SOX, fluorescent bi-pin and GLS forms. Nowadays it is still on the market, with a small LED board taking the place of the old lamp. LED examples come in either 28W or 37W versions.

Lichfield

It can be seen in operation in-and-around Lichfield Cathedral. These striking installations all run LED Lamps, five of them surrounding a main column.

This image shows four of the many lampposts supporting CU Phosco P109 lanterns. If you look closely  however, the furthest column has a rather strange-looking P109.

It's bowl is completely white, and it is missing the black strips which are a stylistic choice to create the illusion of support to the top canopy.

Upon closer inspection this lantern only runs a single LED lamp as opposed to the quintuple set-up of the others.

The feeder-pillar for this section of path is located next to the column's base.

Another installation with a white bowl is this copper-canopied CU Phosco P109. This one does have the black support strips.

London

Phosco P109s are abundant around the area of West Kensington in London. The first one I photographed was on Beauchamp Place:

The P109s continue down Walton Street. It is my understanding that most of these run CPO-TW lamps.

But West Kensington is not the only place where P109s are installed in London. This older one is in the Marylebone area of the City of Westminster on a refuge island.

The column may have had a gas lantern on it originally. The P109 runs an elliptical lamp, perhaps SON-E or mercury.

Newtown, Wales

Newtown in Wales is littered with P109s used as residential lighting. These were converted from their original SON form to LED several years ago.