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I’ve been meaning to share this project idea with Josh Burker<\/a>, author of The Invent to Learn: Guide to Fun<\/a> and the Invent to Learn: Guide to More Fun<\/a> books, for more than a year.<\/p>\n

While on one of the fabulous London Walks<\/a> tours (I’ve done dozens of them) of Chelsea in London last year, I learned that before houses had street numbers assigned to them, people shared cards with a rendering of their home’s fanlight<\/a> depicted on it. This practice dates back to 1720.<\/p>\n

The function of the fanlight is to light a home’s entry way, but many of London’s upscale townhouses feature a semicircle shaped fanlight in which a geometric pattern exists. Each pattern needs to be different, at least in a particular neighborhood, in order to depict the occupants of the home for deliveries and visitors. Below are some of the photos of fanlights I took while walking around Chelsea.<\/p>\n

Here’s the project idea…<\/strong><\/p>\n