Thanks to xaotica for submitting this shot of our favorite neighborhood utility box to the CHs flickr pool. Xaotica’s photograph captures the mini-mural in lighting we believe the artist intended the work to be viewed by — sodium street light orange. Stare at the box’s eye around midnight after a visit to the Canterbury and it will tell your future. If you see it wink one time, you are about to gain wealth. Twice, you will soon find true love. Three times, it is very much time for you to go home.
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FYI I believe the streetlights here are a mixture of mercury and sodium: when they’re dying they revert to the dimmer silver color of the Mercury light.
British roads certainly used to be lit with pure sodium lights, which are a pure bright orange colo(u)r (you might recall the Sodium D-lines at 589 and 590 nanometers from high school physics) which is effectively monochromatic, and makes any color recognition almost impossible.