From this site John Logie Baird broadcast the first television programme in Great Britain on the 30 September 1929.
The Royal Television Society
WC2, Long Acre, 132
The plaque is on number 132 but Seven Dials and Research Gate say his flat/studio was at number 133, to the left (west) of the site of the plaque.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Logie Baird & Television broadcast
See Londonist's excellent post How Television Was Invented In London. We love...
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical tele...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Logie Baird & Television broadcast
Childhood home of Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer photographer, 1830 -1904. Royal Kingston The Friends of Kingston Museum and Heritage Service
English Heritage Sir David Low, 1891 - 1963, cartoonist, lived here at no. 33.
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling and this Newspaper Archive report from the Nor...
Strummer lived here in a squat with the band, the 101ers, named after a previous squat they'd occupied at 101 Walterton Road, W9.
