Haywards, Bath, UK
A sidewalk prism in Bath, England, manufactured by Haywards Limited of London. The Hayward brothers were William and Edward Hayward, part of a notable family of glaziers and glass-cutters, who made the move into the ironmongery trade when they bought the business of Robert Henly in 1848. Robert Henly was an iron work specialist who had also been producing coalholes, but ill-health had led him to sell his business. The Hayward Brothers expanded the business and made their fortune not from jobbing iron-work or coalholes, but from the development and patenting of a semi-prismatic pavement light, such as the one shown here. These sidewalk prisms act as skylights to illuminate dark basement. The company seems to have gone out of business in the 1970s.
Haywards, Bath, UK
A sidewalk prism in Bath, England, manufactured by Haywards Limited of London. The Hayward brothers were William and Edward Hayward, part of a notable family of glaziers and glass-cutters, who made the move into the ironmongery trade when they bought the business of Robert Henly in 1848. Robert Henly was an iron work specialist who had also been producing coalholes, but ill-health had led him to sell his business. The Hayward Brothers expanded the business and made their fortune not from jobbing iron-work or coalholes, but from the development and patenting of a semi-prismatic pavement light, such as the one shown here. These sidewalk prisms act as skylights to illuminate dark basement. The company seems to have gone out of business in the 1970s.