Erection date: 1998
City of Westminster
John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's first traffic lights which were erected here, 9th Dec. 1868.
J. P. Knight Group Ltd. 1998
SW1, Bridge Street, 12
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peake Knight, 1st traffic lights
Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously...
Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager fr...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peake Knight, 1st traffic lights
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
London County Council Captain Frederick Marryat, 1792 - 1848, novelist, lived here.
These three men must have been the vicars at St Philips, at the years given.
St Bride Foundation Institute The memorial stone of the St Bride Foundation Institute was laid in 1893 by HRH The Prince of Wales and th...
English Heritage Frances Mary Buss, 1827 - 1894, pioneer of education for women was headmistress here, 1879 - 1894.