SPLASHES OF COLOUR
Brighter Lamp-posts
A “brighter lamp-posts” movement Is afoot in London. It is a municipal move to counteract the gloom of Winter with a splash .of colour in foggy streets. The lamp-posts In Gray’s Inn Road have been transformed -into harbingers <jf gjirlng. They have been painted a blight green. ' Tlie Westminster City Council favours silver, n tribute to the gay tinsel tints of Christmas.: Many lamp-posts in tile West End have been finished in the brightest of aluminium paint- The London County Council’s fire brigade, not to be outdone, has made its contribution to the movement with a new type of brilliantly illuminated fire alarm, which have been installed in one district.
Tlie most brilliant success is in Piccadilly Circus, with the handsome bronze columns, eneh holding a cluster of three huge lamps. On the embankment. the lamp-posts, hydrants, etc., have been painted a brilliant orange hue. but this is only a temporary undercoating.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 2
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157SPLASHES OF COLOUR Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 2
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