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diamond geezer diamond geezer Monday, January 26, 2026 Television is 100 years old today. And it was born here, above an Italian cafe in Soho. The man who first demonstrated television was John Logie Baird , a former engineering apprentice from Helensburgh. And although there are other places that can plausibly claim to be TV's birthplace, including a terraced street in Hastings, a hill in north London and Selfridges, most people agree that the decisive moment was a demonstration given to journalists in Frith Street on 26th January 1926. Baird might never have made it to London had he not been

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