newel post lamps Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/newel-post-lamps/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Sat, 02 Sep 2017 09:15:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png newel post lamps Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/newel-post-lamps/ 32 32 Newel Post Lamps in Lviv https://forgottengalicia.com/newel-post-lamps-lviv/ https://forgottengalicia.com/newel-post-lamps-lviv/#respond Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:59:50 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1100 Before electricity, stairwells were lit up by candles, gas lamps, and other types of lighting. Lanterns were hung from hooks or poles high in the central area of the stairwell, or sometimes the stairwell’s newel posts, due to their prime location, functioned also as lamp posts. Early newel posts burned […]

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