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
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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Peake Knight, 1st traffic lights
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