John Logie Baird carried out the first experimental transmissions of true Television on this site in autumn 1926 – three years before his work with the BBC. Here he also demonstrated noctovision and phonovision,…
The Golden Hind (more specifically a wounded female deer) is the symbol of the ancient Parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields. The Seven Dials Trust has used it, in a circle representing the Dials, as a motif on all street furniture.