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
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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
Created in 1965 from the former area of the Metropolitan Boroughs of St Maryl...
Having been walked on for many decades the plaque is very worn but with David...
Edward Lear, 1812 - 1888, artist and writer, lived here.London County Council
Katharine Mackay Low, 1855 - 1923, philanthropist, in whose memory this settl...
