From this site Guglielmo Marconi made the first public transmission of wireless signals on 27 July 1896.
EC1, Newgate Street
2019: The  reported that BT have announced their plan to sell this site. The building only dates from 1984 but BT (GPO) have been on the site for over a century.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marconi - EC1
Born Bologna. Arrived in London, with his mother, in 1896 to patent his metho...
Unusually this memorial lists all the men who went to war, not just those who died. The names of the ten who did die are marked with a li...
In the 19th century this brewery was on the elite tourist trail so in 1850 when Haynau arrived in London here he came. But his reputatio...
The British Library H.R.H. The Prince of Wales unveiled this stone 7 December 1982.
English Heritage Dr. Joseph Rogers, 1821 - 1889, health care reformer, lived here.
William Wilkie Collins, 1824 - 1889, novelist, lived here. London County Council
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