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 two plaques are below the ground floor windows. They cannot be seen in our photo, obscured by the black section of the gates. Reading...
Eleanor Rathbone, 1872-1946, pioneer of family allowances, lived here. Greater London Council
Many of the houses on this side of the road have this 'bridge mark' plaque (in varying conditions) on their frontages, all between the tw...
L.C.C. John Hughlings Jackson, (1835 - 1911), physician, lived here.
Westminster City Council Pioneer aviator, sailor and author, Sir Francis Chichester KBE, 1901 - 1972, single-handed circumnavigator of t...
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