Erection date: 1998
City of Westminster
John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's first traffic lights which were erected here, 9th Dec. 1868.
J. P. Knight Group Ltd. 1998
SW1, Bridge Street, 12
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Peake Knight, 1st traffic lights
Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously...
Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager fr...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peake Knight, 1st traffic lights
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
The West Square Residents Association has provided an excellent history of this Square on a notice board at the gate. We have transcribed...
We were initially surprised to see that the date was a Monday which seemed an odd day to hold a party. But our colleague Alan Patient rem...
This estate boasts a Festival of Britain plaque.
{Next to a photograph of John Hearn} Ernie's Beach This stretch of the river foreshore is named after local resident and community activi...
Musician, writer, broadcaster, Benny Green, 1927 - 1998, lived here, 1932 - 1962.
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