Erection date: /6/2007
City of Westminster
Gas light & Coke Company, 1813-1937, site of a gasworks which provided the first public supply of gas in the world.
Unveiled by councillor Carolyn Keen, Lord Mayor of Westminster.
SW1, Seacole Building, Great Peter Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gas Light and Coke Company
Royal Charter granted in 1812 to Gas Light and Coke Company for street lighti...
Founded by Frederick Albert Winsor (who also gave the world's first demonstra...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gas Light and Coke Company
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
E. H. Shepard, 1879 – 1976, painter and illustrator lived here. English Heritage
The history of this building, "the former Hotel Cecil" is covered by Victor Keegan.
The watch-house is the low building to the right of the one with the scholar statues. the blue plaque you can just see to the left is fo...
English Heritage Sir William Walton, 1902-1983, composer, lived here.
This brass plaque on the pavement had become badly worn and a new one was erected on a nearby wall.
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