This was important in the era before the widespread availablility of electricy and incandescent light bulbs. While lightwells were once common in Glasgow's commercial buildings, many have since been lost.
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This central void lined with windows and white-glazed bricks allowed as much light as possible to reach what would otherwise have been internal rooms with little or no natural light.
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The lightwell in the middle of the 1890s Baltic Chambers on Wellington Street in central Glasgow.
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One of the corner lanterns of on Duncan McNaughtan's 1897 Free Classical Baltic Chambers on Wellington Street in Glasgow.
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I absolutely love this sculpted nameplate on Baltic Chambers on Wellington Street in Glasgow. It was built in 1897 in the Free Clasaical Style from a design by Duncan McNaughtan.
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