City of Westminster
Pall Mall. The first street in London to be lit by gas, in 1807.
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SW1, Pall Mall
We were surprised to see a memorial plaque attached to this piece of street furniture, a way-finding finger-post. Is this the only one? Or are there lots and we've just failed to spot them? Given the subject commemorated perhaps this is a well-placed rarity.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
First gas-lit street
The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall by Fr...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
First gas-lit street
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
We photographed this plaque in Sept 2003, but on returning to photograph the building in March 2008, the plaque had gone. 2021: we retur...
Historic Southwark Here was "Stones End" where "Town Street" met the old turnpike road, one of the parliamentary forts erected to defend...
We only know about this plaque from an article in the 24 November 2019 Hindustan Times, whence our photo. "The Royal College of General P...
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