What are these?

By ghost of mensforth -



Went back to Kenton Bar today to check the 'ha-ha' fence(see post and new comment)...took these photos of these rectangular things on the north wall which still stands opposite the shops...seem to recall they were blue like lights for aesthetic purpose on a dark night...am I right?

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  1. ShadesThursday, May 6, 2010 at 6:41:00 PM GMT

    Standard fluorescent lights with a white translucent perspex sheet to protect the lamps. Early ones had a thick flat sheet in, later ones had a thinner sheet that bulged out slightly. There were several inlaid into the wall of the upper plaza and along the water feature beyond the ramp.

    There were larger angled versions on the flats (the lower flats still have them) and very small versions at toe level along the ramp on either side.

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  2. ghost of mensforthFriday, May 7, 2010 at 12:19:00 AM GMT

    So do the lower flat one's still work I wonder?...if so I will go there in the darkmans and photograph them in their full glory...

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  3. ShadesFriday, May 7, 2010 at 7:02:00 PM GMT

    Better go tooled up...

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