In 1926 in this house John Logie Baird, 1888 - 1946, first demonstrated television.
London County Council
W1, Frith Street, 22
Two plaques to the same event, one British and one American.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Logie Baird and TV demonstration
See Londonist's excellent post How Television Was Invented In London. We love...
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical tele...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Logie Baird and TV demonstration
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
John Logie Baird and TV demonstration
From The Register: "On the afternoon of 26 January 2017 – exactly 91 years to...
Dave Shepherd, Britain's acclaimed jazz clarinettist and bandleader, was born here on 7th February 1929. Waltham Forest Heritage
Bowman's Lodge, the house in which he was born, had a splendid view and Lear's earliest memory was of being wrapped in a blanket and held...
2017: The plaque is no longer here (our photograph of it was taken some years ago), We have contacted Stephens House, who tell us that it...
Erected between April 2019 and August 2020, by unknown.
The business had just moved out when the building was destroyed by a WW2 bomb.
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