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
The plaque is in the entrance porch of the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College. Â John Oakley tells a great story of how the Queen...
We think this plaque was installed c.2012, to replace the lost one. We are puzzled by the reference to "coffin-shaped beds". Flowerbeds, ...
We were sceptical but a 2012 article in Time confirms: “Technically, the Queen still owns the sturgeons, whales and dolphins in the water...
Unveiled by Ruthie Henshall and Andrew Lloyd Webber on 3 May 1995. Jessie Matthews was actually born a few yards away at number 94.
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