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...
This building has been occupied by the East India Club since 1850, and 2018, still is. From British History Online: 1804 the Boehms boug...
Unveiled by Ruthie Henshall and Andrew Lloyd Webber on 3 May 1995. Jessie Matthews was actually born a few yards away at number 94.
Caroline's Miscellany visited this amazing building at Open House 2011 and has some great photos of the inside.
Attlee's house on this site was number 18.
The plaques are just visible in our photo, to the left of the third column from the right. This was built as the South West Essex Techni...
{Around the logo of the Terrence Higgins Trust:} The first meeting of the Terrence Higgins Trust was held here on 17th August 1983. 10th ...
Soweto is a township of Johannesburg, South Africa. At least 176 people were killed during a protest about the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools. Of these, 116...
In WW2 each local council was responsible for setting up the local ARP to protect civilians from air raids. ARP Wardens were important members, enforcing the blackout, sounding the alarms, etc.
Sculptor. Trained at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art. Diane J. Gorvin was born in 1956 the elder child of Herbert D. Gorvin (b.1931) and Patricia A. M. Gorvin née Black (b.1936). Her birt...
