Belisha beacon

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Belisha beacon

a flashing light in an orange globe mounted on a post, indicating a pedestrian crossing on a road
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PROTEST: Above, a lady, carrying a child, stands at the imitation Belisha beacon and, below, adults and youngsters criss-cross the road to deliver their protest
Marchers block 'mad mile'
Belisha beacons were introduced by Leslie Hore-Belisha whilst he was Minister of Transport in 1934-1937.
BACK IN TIME: PUTTING IT RIGHT
In that wonderful old shop of childhood memories were paraded sherbet dabs, sherbet sucks, gobstoppers, aniseed balls, Spangles, humbugs, lemonade powder, Penny Arrow toffee bars, black jacks, ha'penny chews, Love Hearts, Refreshers, two-tone lollypops shaped like miniature Belisha beacons, as well as the pop fizzed into many different colours and flavours by a company called Moorhouse's.
DAVID CHARTERS: You even make jokes about the day given to love
Situation in Coventry is a disgrace - many Belisha beacons out too.
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Youngsters who have only known 'green man' pelican crossings are bamboozled by the black-and-white stripes and flashing Belisha beacons.
The A-Zebra of crossings
And designers are working on plans to replace Belisha beacons with flashing Tunnock's Teacakes.
Highwafer code
Witness Malcolm Aspinall, who was driving the other way and who had stopped to allow Mr Curnow to cross, said the Passatt showed no signs of slowing down as it approached the crossing, which was illuminated with Belisha beacons.
Driver who killed man on crossing jailed
Former minister of transport, who gave his name to the road crossings he introduced - Belisha beacons.
BORN ON THIS DAY
This old photograph from our archives has some interesting and revealing features - no zebra crossing where the belisha beacons stand, for instance, and also notice the street light in the foreground on the right and the other two on the pavement to the left of the belisha beacons.
Remember When; St George's Church, Middlesbrough..
In the pictures on this page the police are attempting to instil road sense into junior school children by turning a playground at Linthwaite into a road system, using pedal cars, tricycles and miniature Belisha beacons.
LANDMARK: Learning road safety rules
The man responsible for Belisha beacons collapsed and died while making a speech.
Winds of war blew right up to the doors of Cardiff; Time traveller Take a trip down memory lane looking back
Children were perched on top of post boxes, belisha beacons, road signs and railings and crowds even lined the roof of the ABC cinema - while a film was being shown below
The night when Winstone kept his date with boxing destiny

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