Tamlite Tamcrest Lantern Installations

The Tamcrest Lantern by Tamlite was a sporadic lantern throughout the UK. They could run 50W to 400W SON or metal halide lamps, having been available with deep-polycarbonate bowls or flat-glass bowls. Their light-weight fibreglass canopy was anomalous in shape, featuring a stepped-design towards the front.

SnowDome, Tamworth

The Tamlite Tamcrest is a shockingly rare lantern in the UK. Only 5 installations are known to me here in Tamworth, and all of them are outside the SnowDome. Presumably they used to run 70W SON, but the lamps were removed back in 2021.

Mounted at 5m, the lanterns look huge! This one is misaligned to the road.

The canopy is made of GRP (Glass-Reinforced-Plastic) or fibre glass. As a result, this lantern's canopy has seen quite the greenery-growth throughout the years!

A close-up of the empty lamp compartment. Several pot-shots have appeared through the bowl, probably the result of low life druggies that hang out in the underpass. This may be why the lamps were removed.

A Royce-Thompson P5 photocell is fitted on top.

The other Tamlite Tamcrest lanterns on this roadway are all encompassed in tree branches.

Derby Southern Bypass

Column BL252 on a footpath running parallel to the Derby Southern Bypass is fitted with a Tamcrest Lantern. Thank you to AgentHalogen_87 for providing these images after a data corruption.

This version is the flat-glass variant.