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National Coal Board lighting

            From the 1950s, the National Coal Board (NBC) were big uses of GEC lighting products, with collieries employing a lot of GEC street lighting to illuminate the dusty roadways around the sites. 

The rapid demise of the coal mining industry in the 1980s left many of these sites derelict, with the locals kids soon vandalising the properties once the collieries were vacated. Not surprisingly, the on-site lighting generally fell victim quite quickly.

The picture shows one of several battered GEC Z5954s remaining  on a former NBC site near Chase Terrace in South Staffordshire.

The GEC ZP type bracket is much earlier than the lantern, and likely once held a mercury burning GEC Dioptrion aloft. Many of the old  high wattage mercury burners were swept away following the miners & power workers strikes of the early 1970s, when a sharp rise in power costs came about as a result. Replacement by low-pressure sodium lighting offered a more economical alternative.

Taken on: October 6, 2020

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