Buildings across Cardiff will turn the lights out tonight as part of a UK-wide project to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
Between 10pm and 11pm the lights will be extinguished leaving just a single light or candle burning for a shared moment of reflection.
City Council Leader, Cllr Phil Bale, said: “It is right that we commemorate and remember those who took part in the First World War in this centenary year and always. The bravery and sacrifice of those who fought and of the communities on the home front, continues to humble all of us.”
At City Hall a solitary lamp will be lit in the Council Chamber.
At Cardiff Castle a light will be placed in the window of the summer smoking room at the top of the iconic clock tower.
The New Theatre will remember those who did not return with a single spot lit candle above the main doors of the theatre.
At The Mansion House a light will be lit in a front bay window.
At St David’s Hall, The National Concert Hall of Wales an electric candle will burn amidst darkness of the ground floor.
The project is being organised by 14-18 NOW, the official cultural programme for the First World War Centenary Commemorations and is inspired by a famous remark made on the eve of the outbreak of war by the then Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey: “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”
At 11pm on August 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany and one of the darkest periods in European history began.
