lamp-post saved by “a vociferous old battleaxe"

I came across this delightful - and unexpected - lamp-post in Worthing, and have managed to discover what it is and how it survived here.  The following history of its survival has been "borrowed" from the WORTHING HISTORY website:

The seal was set on Mrs Pat Baring’s place in Worthing’s folk-lore the moment she decided to sit down in the middle of the town’s leafy Farncombe Road to prevent council workmen removing Worthing’s last truly elegant Victorian lamp-post. 

The town’s highways committee had decided to remove a tiny traffic island and its lamp-post, at the junction of Farncombe Road and Church Walk, after its chairman, David Hill, declared: “They constitute a hazard and create a dangerous junction that should be replaced by bollards.” 

To Mrs Baring, who had spent her senior years defending Worthing’s few historical landmark buildings from the bulldozers, it was like presenting a red rag to a  bull. “There have never been any accidents here,” protested battling Pat, and when council workmen arrived at seven o’clock one morning to remove the offending lamp-post, they found her defiantly staging a one-widow sit-in on the very spot they had been told to begin drilling. 

There, battling Pat remained, under blazing  sunshine, until town hall officials finally capitulated and called off the work, excusing themselves that they “feared for her safety”. The lamp post is still there today, an elegant (and hopefully permanent) memorial to a true battling Brit. 
 
A town councillor who once came off worst in a head-on verbal collision with the late  Mrs Pat Baring described her as “a vociferous old battleaxe”. That opponent meant it in a derogatory sense but it was a description the feisty Mrs Baring accepted with gleeful delight. 
 
Not that the indomitable Pat was flippant. She was passionate about her main objective in the 1960s and 70s, which was to save the rapidly disappearing architectural gems of her beloved Worthing from the acres of concrete threatened by zealous developers.


PS
The less ornate lamp-post in the background is also very fine, but I have not managed dig up any information about this.  Each of the lamp-posts is carefully provided with a number:  Pat Baring's post is numbered 6, the post behind is numbered 1 - perhaps to accompany a leaflet providing a trail of the town's architectural jewels