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...
Charles Darwin, 1809 - 1882, naturalist, lived in a house on this site, 1838 - 1842. London County Council
Kenny Everett 25 December 1944 to 4 April 1995. Revolutionary broadcaster and entertainer lived here from 1981 to 1995. To preserve and f...
Greater London Council George Nathaniel Curzon Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1859-1919 Statesman, Viceroy of India, lived and died here
Siegfried Sassoon, 1886 - 1967, writer, lived here 1925 - 1932. English Heritage
There is a rather strange modern architectural sculpture in this courtyard (you can see the top of it to the left of our picture, behind ...
