1. Where did my interest in street lighting come from?

I have always had an interest in lighting (and more specifically street lighting). This began to amplify around the age of 5, when the Industria 2600s on my old street were replaced with Urbis Altras (around 2010). I stayed home from school "Ill" that day, watching the crews work their way down the street, ripping out the old columns and swapping them with 6m Stanton steel columns. Once they got to the bottom of the street, I even went out and asked for a 2600! No surprise they said no haha! My street lighting interest continued to grow from there, and in 2022 I found a community who also shared my obscure interest. I invested time into learning about each type of street light, shared pictures and engaged with the community into late 2022. It would be one year later where I would get my first lantern, an Industria 2600. At the time, I thought it would be a one-off purchase, a cool ornament for my room... Later on, I purchased another Industria 2600 and a Thorn Civic 1. It was at this point that I knew I wanted to start seriously collecting lanterns. In late 2023 I approached a street lighting crew for the second time since I was 6, and got to witness a lantern swap. Shortly after, I moved into my own apartment which allowed the collection to grow significantly faster, and I learned more about the different lamp-types, photocells, gears etc.

2. Why did I create this site?

I created this website to document installations, my collection, and to act as a sort-of timeline of my journey into the hobby of collecting and photographing lanterns.

3. How many lanterns are in your collection?

There are almost 70 lanterns in the collection today (and counting!)

4. When will you stop collecting lanterns?

I have no plans to stop collecting lanterns, and once I run out of room I'll be hiring external storage to keep more in.

5. Are any of your lanterns for sale?