A old pavement light on Radnor Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. Pavement lights used prisms to bring natural light into otherwise dark, sub-street cellars.

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The name Luxfer comes from the latin words Lux (or light) and Ferre (meaning to carry), and the British Luxfer Prism Syndicate Limited still exists today as Luxcrete Limited.

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This one was made by the British Luxfer Prism Syndicate Limited, which was established in 1898 under licence from the American company Luxfer, which at one point employed a young Frank Lloyd Wright to design its prisms.

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