Street lights

The old street lights are being replaced with standards and more up-to-date lamps that reduce the upward lightspill of light ‘pollution’.  Concrete lamposts are being replaced by skinnier steel columns.  But somehow – left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing – the London Borough of Lambeth is installing two differing lamp housings; the first, more ‘retro’ are as seen in the films of Charlie Chaplin (see post), and the other more ‘moderne’.  Different lamp-posts! Different colours too! And so far they haven’t been able to remove all of the old concrete standards.  Or the now-outdated unused  former traffic sign standards.  Has a ‘Lord of Misrule’ got loose in the borough engineer’s department?