Erection date: /6/2007
City of Westminster
Gas light & Coke Company, 1813-1937, site of a gasworks which provided the first public supply of gas in the world.
Unveiled by councillor Carolyn Keen, Lord Mayor of Westminster.
SW1, Seacole Building, Great Peter Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gas Light and Coke Company
Royal Charter granted in 1812 to Gas Light and Coke Company for street lighti...
Founded by Frederick Albert Winsor (who also gave the world's first demonstra...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gas Light and Coke Company
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Formerly The (Regent Street) Polytechnic. The plaque for the first cinema is inside the hall and is not normally accessible except when t...
{On the plaque:} This pump was made by George Turner of Dorset Street, Fleet Street in the 1830's and erected, it is thought, for the res...
Henry Hall, 1898 - 1989, dance band leader and broadcaster, lived here 1932 - 1959. English Heritage
London County Council Sir George Alexander, 1858 - 1918, actor manager, lived here.
The VR monogram must refer to the monarch at the time the Bankers Clearing House was first on this site in 1833, Victoria.
