Street lights

[Guest jim s-w]

Hi All

 

It might just be me but sometimes you just cant find info on the internet that you'd have thought would be easy. In this case, how tall are UK street lamps?

 

Cheers

 

Jim

[PhilJ W]

It depends on the situation. Most suburban street lights are usually 5 to 6 metres, which is about the eaves height of a 2 story house. On major roads and motorways they can be as high as 20 metres and in some cases more.

[Nick Holliday]

Try this website for a bit of information overload

http://www.cuphosco.com/LightingColumns.html

[Nile_Griffith]

Reliably informed by my old man who once spent many earning hours atop street lamps in the former borough of WallyHampton (changing lamps, photo electric sensors and clocks of all things). That street lamps generally came at the height that the local authority could afford (taking into account light spread etc etc etc).

 

There where a few criteria though. in residential area. Street lamps replaced from about the 70's onwards where generally eve's height or above. So that first floor bedroom windows were not at a direct level. Where overhead electricity cables ran across roads then street lights would only be to a height determined by the "arc over" distance, determined by the height of the transmission lines.

 

There's a very entertaining episode of the Goon show where Neddy Seagoon is charged with the aquisition of a new concrete lamp post.

[Phil Traxson]

Hi All

 

It might just be me but sometimes you just cant find info on the internet that you'd have thought would be easy. In this case, how tall are UK street lamps?

 

Cheers

 

Jim

 

The ones that have just been placed in our suburban street in Derby are 8 metres high, I know this because I complained about them wasting money replacing an almost new light with a new one and was told it was replaced because it was only 6 mtres high. It now lights up the back garden over the top of my bungalow!

 

Phil T.

[TomE]

Hi Jim

 

I can't answer your question, but when I was looking for info on street lights I came across this site:

 

http://www.streetlightonline.co.uk/links.htm

 

You may be able to find the info you need here or on some of the sites in the links section.

 

Cheers,

 

Tom.

['CHARD]

I see Claire Pendrous' name on the list at the end of that previous link, Jim. Hitting it takes you, sort of, here:

 

 

http://www.midlandcountiesstreetlighting.co.uk/WhatsNew.html

So there's a friendly local expert in the field for you