From this site John Logie Baird broadcast the first television programme in Great Britain on the 30 September 1929.
The Royal Television Society
WC2, Long Acre, 132-3
The plaque is on number 132 but and say his flat/studio was at number 133, to the left (west) of the site of the plaque.
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John Logie Baird WC2 - Long Acre
John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system ...
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical tele...
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John Logie Baird WC2 - Long Acre
Erected between April 2019 and August 2020, by unknown.
The building in the background is 8 Canada Square, HSBC's London head office, and the building on which the 3 construction workers lost t...
Erected by Camden Borough Council Ali Mohammed Abbas, 1922 - 1979, barrister and one of the founders of Pakistan, lived here, 1945 - 1979.
Patrick Hamilton, 1904-1962, novelist and playwright, lived here. English HeritageÂ
Wikipedia suggests that Colbeck and his family moved to this address in 1914, and the ODNB says he died here. But from the plain style of...
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