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...
Engineer. Born Charlton. Best known for the St Pancras railway shed. Died at home, High Combe, 145 Charlton Road, SE7, not far from his place of birth.
Junior 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar...
2nd Electrician on the RMS Titanic. A résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia-titanica website that incorrectly claims (in April 2022) that he was aged 36 years when he died. His birth...
This arch overlooked Dial Square, named for the sundial in the centre. It is the site of the Royal Gun Factories where gun barrels were bored out. In 1886, the workers here formed a football club -...
Assistant to Frederick Bremer. He helped build the first British motor car with an internal combustion engine.
Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 1997-8.
Wikipedia and other sites,including that of the sponsors, the Music Hall Guild, give the address as '44' but the plaque is definitely on ...
Jacqueline du Pre, 1945 - '87, cellist, lived here, 1970 - 1975. Heath and Old Hampstead Society
Activist for maternity health and wife of the Prime Minister. Born Lucy Ridsdale in Bayswater but grew up in Rottingdean and was always known as Cissie. Married Stanley Baldwin in 1892 and had 6 ch...
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