Thorn gamma 6s are one of my favourite street lights, they look really nice at night. Sadly, lots are being replaced with LED.

Highfield Road, Englefield Green

Most of these thorn gamma 6s run 26w Sox-e or 35w Sox, however some run SON. There is one with a photocell which controls most of the other ones. There is about 10 or more of these, and only 1 is EOL! These are also all on thorn columns.

Here is a picture of a Sox one warming up.

Here is the SON one. This one has the photocell which controls most of the other ones nearby.

Here is one with a wide canopy, or wide hat and a clear bowl, it also has its own NEMA photocell and it runs on a SON lamp.

Here is one with a 1990s style thinner canopy. It still has a NEMA photocell and runs on a SON lamp. It also has a SON floodlight attached to it. Actually, there is a hole drilled into the base of the thorn gamma 6, and it is for the cable to go through connecting to the floodlight. Also, the floodlight doesn’t work, however the thorn gamma 6 still works. The purpose of the floodlight is to light up the stairs to a footbridge over the A30.

Here is a SOX thorn gamma 6.

Here is a damaged column, it is bent and has been crashed into. The lantern is also bent. Despite the damage, the lantern still works!

Here is one with a clear bowl, however it is badly yellowed. It also has its own photocell and the thinner 1990s style canopy.

Here is the base of a column, it has a bit of graffiti on it.

Here is the thorn label on a column.

Royal Holloway university

These thorn gamma 6s are in the royal Holloway university. Some of them have photocells and some of them don’t have photocells. I think most of them run on a SON lamp.

Here is a wide-canopied gamma 6.

The post-top adaptor on the column is unscrewing from the column!

This one also has the post-top adaptor unscrewed From the column.

Another one with an unscrewed post-top adaptor. Most of these columns have spray-painted numbers on them.

This column is in a car-park in the university. Unfortunately, this one doesn’t work.

This column has a thorn gamma 6 with a 1980s style thicker canopy. This one does work.

sunningdale, berkshire

This very overgrown thorn gamma 6 is in sunningdale, Berkshire. There is a zeta smartscape nano next to it, so it probably doesn’t work. It is on a concrete column, which is in a wall, so that’s probably why it hasn’t been removed.