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...
Mehndi is the use of henna to decorate hands etc. in India and neighbouring countries. It is used particularly by women for festive occas...
Sir Osbert Lancaster, 1908 - 1986, cartoonist and writer, was born here. English Heritage
London County Council In a house on this site Florence Nightingale, 1820 - 1910, lived and died.
Ornamental Passions have a good post about the grand mansion at the end of this 1770s development.
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