LIGHTS FOR LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 13

LIGHTS FOR LONDON

A number of London's .principal buildings may soon be provided ■.■with, permanent flood-lighting facilities. The scheme has been under consideration hy tho London Society for sonic months. The buildings which it is proposed to illuminate are the National Gallery, the Clock Tower of ■ tho Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Somerset House. Flood-lighting would not be undertaken every evening, but the lights could bo switched on for public occasions as a feature of London life by night. The cost is to bo met privately. It is understood that £5000 would equip and endow in. perpetuity the lighting, of the facade of the National Gallery, while twice that sum would be needed in the case of "Big Ben." Many leading firms which cooperated in tho experimental scheme two years ago have expressed their willingness to contribute towards the present plan. The London Society has found that the flood-lighting of statuary doc? not always meet with the approval of sculptors, who.point out that J-'aJsR shadows are apt to be cast on the figures when the illumination, comes from below. I