Ambrose Godfrey green plaque
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Connection to This Location
# Standing at 22-23 Southampton Street At this very corner in Covent Garden, Ambrose Godfrey transformed a simple house and laboratory into the birthplace of fire safety as we know it—the location where, between 1706 and 1741, the visionary chemist and inventor developed and refined the world's fir...
Location
22-23 Southampton Street, Covent Garden
Inscription
Ambrose Godfrey 1660-1741 Chemist and inventor of the fire extinguisher who lived at a house and worked at a laboratory and pharmacy on this site between 1706 and 1741