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 Trust’s People’s Plaques bring to light fascinating people and institutions from the very local to the international, who have made a contribution to the area and, in some cases, nationally and internationally.
“An absolutely brilliant and wide ranging scheme…”
– Judges’ citation, The London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies Awards.
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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.