Philips SGS203s are a lantern with a metal base, and a GRP canopy. As most of them are old, the GRP is usually covered in lichen, and the GRP is shedding fibres.

There is also a 35w SOX version of the SGS203, called the Philips XGS203, but those are rare. Most of them run on a SON lamp.

The Range and Halfords car park, Staines, Surrey

These Philips SGS203s are in The Range and Halfords car park in Staines. Sadly, a few of them are cobbed with a LED COB lamp, but others still run on a SON lamp.

These didn’t work a while ago, but the controller was probably broken, however, they now work again and they all dayburn. They are on a green CU column, with the Most bizarre looking bracket. These also have a badly yellowed bowl. A fun fact about the Homebase and Halfords car park is that because there is a Halfords there, whenever I go to The Range or Halfords, I have a look in the car park for old car light bulbs! I have actually found quite a few in there!

A single-armed column

I took some pictures of the same Philips SGS203s in January 2025

One of these has a LED COB lamp in it

One lantern on this column has a LED COB lamp in it, but on the other lantern, the canopy has been removed and a LED floodlight has been attached to the inside of the lantern.

Here are some better pictures of the same installations, they've since fixed the dayburning and they now come at on at night but don't dayburn!

Chertsey, Surrey

This Philips sgs203 is in chertsey, surrey. It has a bowl like the other sgs203s.