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New Palace Yard
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Phil Link to this
New Palace Yard was immediately to the north of Westminster Hall: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/128/
Old Palace Yard was to the south of the Hall. Latham & Matthews assume that when Pepys was ambiguous and referred to merely "Palace Yard" or "Palace," he's referring to New Palace Yard.
ed Link to this
new palace yard had the world's first traffic lights
Vincent Bell Link to this
However the world's first automatic traffic lights could be seen in Princes Square, Wolverhampton in 1927.
Simon Link to this
The Crown was almost certainly in Old Palace Yard - it is refered to in a trial report of the theft of a silver tankard in 1683
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1680s...
Terry Foreman Link to this
About the New Palace Yard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Palace_Yard
Map showing the New Palace Yard - lower center
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/SeriesSearchPlat...