Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously injuring the policeman who was operating it. See the IET and the Victorianist for two different takes on the story.
2017: Londonist describes how these rather odd lights worked, or not.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First traffic lights in world
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's fi...
A Motive Power Depot (MPD) used for the storage of train engines when not in use.
Civil engineer. FRS. Born Scotland into a long line of civil engineers. In London worked on: Metropolitan Railway extension Whitechapel tp Bow and Kew Bridge. Died at his home, The Anchorage, Ha...
From their website: "Edward Cullinan Architects was established by Edward (Ted) Cullinan in 1965, who was an early proponent of sustainability and social awareness and a former colleague of Denys L...
Since Tudor times this organisation was responsible for the drainage of the low-lying parts of the whole of the then built-up area of South London. 1848 - subsumed into the Metropolitan Commission...
The published benefits of domestic wind turbines vary enormously. Taking a very rough average, each one saves about five tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year, and p...
Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. ...
Person, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Poetry, Politics & Administration
Greater London Council Robert Baden-Powell, 1857-1941, chief scout of the world lived here.
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Born Devonport. Royal Navy Antarctic explorer. With four companions, E.A. Wilson, H.R. Bowers, L.E.G. Oates, E. Evans, died returning from the South Pole, having been pipped at the post by Amundsen...
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
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