Old tungsten lamp post in Garnett's garden centre
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Old tungsten lamp post in Garnett's garden centre
Image: © Robert Lamb Taken: 8 Jun 2008
This small garden centre on Albion Road is owned by a lady called Garnett, who also provides flowers for coffins, as well as other coffin decorations such as placards, garlands and bouquets. Sadly, the business closed down at the beginning of this year (2009) - it is currently unoccupied, but I'm sure some other business will take it over soon. Garnett now works in a trinket shop on nearby Station Road. I took this image, however, for the delightful lamp post in the garden centre (probably dating to the 1950s), which I believe is a tungsten "open" lantern (the lantern has no bowl, which allows tungsten lamps to shine freely down onto the road below). The lamp post is still standing today, despite the business' closure. View taken from the nearby car park for Brills (a DIY centre next door), looking west-southwest.
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