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Pavement lights are prisms set into a pavement or road, allowing light to penetrate and hence illuminate a room or a cellar beneath. Pavement lights were originally set in iron frames, often marked with the name of the foundry and prisms were used instead of flat glass to disperse the light, diffusing it over a large area. For a wider view of this location see > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6248454. Hayward Brothers & Eckstein were a London company making patent pavement lights for basements under urban streets. Due to anti-German sentiment during WW1 the English-born William Eckstein changed his name to Extone, and the company's name became Haywards Ltd Extone. In 1848, glaziers William and Edward Hayward joined with an ironmonger specialising in coal-hole lids, thus uniting the two components of their future iron-framed cellar windows. Their major coup was to invent and patent in 1871 a type of horizontal window, glazed with an obliquely-cut lens or prism, which bent incoming light through 90 degrees. Set into a pavement, this could be used to provide daylight in cellars, increasing the usable space in a building. About 1891, William MacLean, a wholesale glass merchant in St Vincent Street, Glasgow, became the Scottish agent for Hayward Brothers & Eckstein. The Montrose-born DW McInnes, then the London manager of the Carron Iron Company, joined Haywards in 1896, and in 1899, they supplied the floor lights for the Port Dundas Electric Power Station for Glasgow Corporation Tramways.

Pavement lights are prisms set into a pavement or road, allowing light to penetrate and hence illuminate a room or a cellar beneath. Pavement lights were originally set in iron frames, often marked with the name of the foundry and prisms were used instead of flat glass to disperse the light, diffusing it over a large area. For a wider view of this location see > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6248454. Hayward Brothers & Eckstein were a London company making patent pavement lights for basements under urban streets. Due to anti-German sentiment during WW1 the English-born William Eckstein changed his name to Extone, and the company's name became Haywards Ltd Extone. In 1848, glaziers William and Edward Hayward joined with an ironmonger specialising in coal-hole lids, thus uniting the two components of their future iron-framed cellar windows. Their major coup was to invent and patent in 1871 a type of horizontal window, glazed with an obliquely-cut lens or prism, which bent incoming light through 90 degrees. Set into a pavement, this could be used to provide daylight in cellars, increasing the usable space in a building. About 1891, William MacLean, a wholesale glass merchant in St Vincent Street, Glasgow, became the Scottish agent for Hayward Brothers & Eckstein. The Montrose-born DW McInnes, then the London manager of the Carron Iron Company, joined Haywards in 1896, and in 1899, they supplied the floor lights for the Port Dundas Electric Power Station for Glasgow Corporation Tramways.

This commemorative stone is situated above the passage leading into Clement Court > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6248437 and informs that near this spot on 6 September 1701 Francis Burges published the first number of the Norwich Post. The building was later occupied by the Norfolk News company. It was built in 1959 and designed by the architects Yates, Cook and Derbyshire.

#175 - Hareatio was painted by students from the Notre Dame High School and can currently be seen on display in the window of Watsons Estate Agents at 1 Bank Plain. For 11 weeks during the summer of 2018, 50 beautifully painted hare sculptures are on display at strategic locations in the city of Norwich. The sculptures will be sold by auction in September, with the proceeds going to the Norfolk charity 'Break'. Apart from the 50 so-called city hares there are also 18 county hares, referred to as 'moongazers' because they look upwards, and smaller leveret sculptures of the GoGoCreate project which are frequently on display in shop windows.

A man sitting on a window sill enjoying the sunshine and a couple heading towards Redwell Street are the only human beings about on this sunny spring day. The city's streets and lanes are usually teeming with tourists and shoppers, but with all pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops currently being closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, most people are adhering to the lockdown rules and stay at home.  

For a wider view of this location see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5874290.

Pavement lights are prisms set into a pavement or road, allowing light to penetrate and hence illuminate a room or a cellar beneath. Pavement lights were originally set in iron frames, often marked with the name of the foundry and prisms were used instead of flat glass to disperse the light, diffusing it over a large area. For a wider view of this location see > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6248454. Hayward Brothers & Eckstein were a London company making patent pavement lights for basements under urban streets. Due to anti-German sentiment during WW1 the English-born William Eckstein changed his name to Extone, and the company's name became Haywards Ltd Extone. In 1848, glaziers William and Edward Hayward joined with an ironmonger specialising in coal-hole lids, thus uniting the two components of their future iron-framed cellar windows. Their major coup was to invent and patent in 1871 a type of horizontal window, glazed with an obliquely-cut lens or prism, which bent incoming light through 90 degrees. Set into a pavement, this could be used to provide daylight in cellars, increasing the usable space in a building. About 1891, William MacLean, a wholesale glass merchant in St Vincent Street, Glasgow, became the Scottish agent for Hayward Brothers & Eckstein. The Montrose-born DW McInnes, then the London manager of the Carron Iron Company, joined Haywards in 1896, and in 1899, they supplied the floor lights for the Port Dundas Electric Power Station for Glasgow Corporation Tramways.

For a view of the old pavement light in the pavement in front see > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6248450.

Tapas Bar on London Road.

The dedication 'at Plea' refers to the archdeacon's court which once used to be held in this church. The building as we see it today dates mainly from the 14th century but stands on the site of an older, presumably Anglo-Saxon place of worship. It was extensively restored in the 19th century. Ever since the church became redundant in the 1960s it has been in the care of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust. The SPCK Resource Centre and the Forget-Me-Not café - St Michael-at-Plea is well known for its clock > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2062484 which bears the inscription 'Forget-me-not' - have occupied the building since 2004. The original medieval font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2062490 and Jacobean cover remaining in place as does the chancel screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2062487 which dates from 1908. All other furnishings have been removed and can now be seen in various other churches.