RADIANT LONDON

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 290, 3 September 1931, Page 9

RADIANT LONDON

Modern Floodlights on Historic Buildings CROWDS IN THE CITY By Telegraph—Preo» Assn.—Copyright (Rec. September 2, 7.80 p.m.) London, September L There were amazing scenes In London to-night, when, to the astonishment of the authorities, hundreds of thousands crowded the city and West End streets to witness the flood-lighting of the principal buildings in celebration of the conference of the International Illumination Congress. The crowds In the streets were the densest since the Armistice. A huge throng foregathered at St. Paul’s to see Sir Christopher Wren’s dome ouvHned In silvery lights. Elsewhere searchlights played on the towers and pinnacles of such buildings as Buckingham Palace, the Houses oi Parliament, the Abbey, and Westminster Cathedral, revealing lovely and unsuspected beauties. There were equally novel scenes on the Thames, where fire-floats threw up great jets of water on which coloured beams of light played.