Harry Beck Harry Beck Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974), known as Harry Beck, was an English technical draughtsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office. London Underground was initially sceptical of Beck's radical proposal, an uncommissioned spare-time project, but tentatively introduced it to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It was immediately popular, and the Underground has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since. Prior to the
Peter Cook Bishop as Moore in the West End. A green plaque to honour Cook was unveiled by the Westminster City Council and the Heritage Foundation at the site of the Establishment Club, at 18 Greek Street, on 15 February 2009 after an online campaign by satirist / event Organiser Mark Biddiss, who also organised "The World's 1st Peter Cook is dead Birthday Party/Long overdue Public Wake" to promote the plaque, which featured a live reworking of 'Derek & Clive' material titled "Derek & Clive are Alive again". A historic blue plaque was unveiled by the Torbay Civic Society on 17 November