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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ery fine design. There areseveral rows of seats in the body of the House;and all being of ample dimensions, and coveredwith green morocco leather, harmonising delightfullywith the warm brown tints of the oak panelling andframing to the seats, produce an air of repose andcomfort. The clerks table is panelled beneadiwith elaborately-carved work, and at its southernend are brass scrolls for the Speakers mace to rest 5IO OLD AND NEW LONDON. (The New Palace, in during the business of the House ; underneath ceiling into an air-shaft, its exit being provided fortliere are wrought brackets for it to rest on whilst by the panels of the ceiling not being made to restthe House is in committee. , on the intersecting ribs, thus allowing a space of The seat of the Serjeant-at-Arms is near the about three-quarters of an inch between the ribsbar, at the southern end of the House. There are and the panels.two doors on either side of the House, to lead into ; Experiments were made in lighting the House
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INTERIOR OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1875. the division-lobbies ; and there are similar door-ways as entrances into the galleries. Behind theSpeakers chair is a doorway leading to retiring-rooms for the Speaker, and communicating withcorridors which give access to the Speakers officialresidence. The ventilation of the House of Commons iscarried out on Dr. Percys principle; the freshwarm air passing upwards through the perforatedfloor, and the vitiated air escaping through the of Commons with the Bude Light in 1839, andthe plan was adopted in the following year. In1852, further experiments were made in the presentHouse by the introduction of Dr. Reids system oflighting. This system rendered unnecessary themassi\e chandeliers which were originally suspendedfrom pendants at the intersections of the greatbeams of the ceiling ; substituting, in lieu of them,rings of gas jets pendant to about the level of themain beams of the ceiling. Panels of the flat part Westminster. J THE LIGHTING OF THE

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