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.

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.