Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously injuring the policeman who was operating it. See the and the for two different takes on the story.
2017: describes how these rather odd lights worked, or not.
2025: returned to the topic with an even more thorough post.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First traffic lights in world
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's fi...
Footbridges on either side of the Hungerford railway bridge. They replaced the single footbridge which was located on the downstream side of the bridge, and commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen ...
A British professional engineering institution licenced by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers and Technicians.
Chairman of the Westminster Joint Works and Sanitary Committee in 1893. He is referenced in Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John...
London terminus for Great Western Railways since 1838. The current station was designed by Brunel in 1854. The underground arrived in 1863 and Paddington was the original western terminus for the...
The Wikipedia page for this organisation looks like a dumping ground for all the unwanted Is and Es from a Scrabble board. Began in 1884 as the Vulcanic* Society, formed by a group of apprentices ...
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