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Greatham

Greatham is a small village with a big history. Vision were approached to produce a bespoke line of light sources which could be retrofitted into the existing heritage style luminaires. Maintaining the historic feel, while utilising a high efficient light source.

Greatham is a small village with a big history. Vision was approached to produce a bespoke line of light sources that could be retrofitted into the existing heritage-style luminaires. Maintaining the historic feel, while utilising a highly efficient light source.

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Greatham first came mentioned in 1196 and has since been mentioned in the Doomsday Book. In 1273 the then Bishop of Durham oversaw construction of the Hospital of God. For these, and many other reasons Greatham is rightly considered a historic site.

The two main routes which make up the village centre were fitted with heritage-style lighting in keeping with the overall scene. However, over the 15 years the luminaires have been installed technology has moved on somewhat and was in serious need of updating.

Vision was approached initially to produce a bespoke line of LED retrofits as upgrades to be installed into the luminaires currently in situ. Bore from this development was the Vision Vega, an LED Retrofit system designed to convert a number of current production luminaires to LED technology.