Public Records Office

One of the first of the country's important historic documents, the Domesday Book, had suffered years of degradation through the use of fluorescent lights under which it had been displayed at the London Public Records Office.

The crucially vital UV filtering properties of glass fibre were recognized and exploited to maximum value in this installation. To further protect the fragile paperwork, the whole case was also hermetically sealed and environmentally controlled.

With the absence of any heat to affect the internal temperature, and the remote access of the lightsource for maintenance, fibre optics stamped their mark indelibly as the lighting tool of first choice for all such conservation applications.