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...
March 2016: Google Street View has this whole house fogged out. Someone ever so important must live there.
This building was once the home of Sydney Stern, Lord Wandsworth. From Visit Jewish London: "Nightingale - London’s premier care home for...
As the gateway to Metroland, Betjeman was fond of this station.
The Bridge plaque is on the far side of the wall beside the woman's head in our photo. The jubilee plaque is laid into the terrace betwee...
The Ward drinking fountain is to the left of the gate. The Wesley plaque is to the right.
Politician. Born Yorkshire as Alec Ewart Glassey. Wikipedia explains: "Glassey was an important figure in the Congregational Church. He was Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wale...
This is a rather grand memorial: the statue with Campbell resting his telescope on a palm-tree stump, being atop a fat pink marble pillar...
The first number of the Sunday Times was edited at 4 Salisbury Court by Henry White, October 20 1822.
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