Erection date: 17/9/2013
The Short brothers: Horace 1872 - 1917, Eustace 1875 - 1932, Oswald 1883 - 1969, aeronautical engineers, worked in arches 75 and 81.
English Heritage
SW11, Queenstown Road, Petrol station
We hunted for this plaque and couldn't find it but our colleague with sharper eyes, Alan Patient, spotted it. English Heritage used to have a splendid picture of this site with two fully inflated balloons.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Short Brothers
Pioneering aeronautical engineers. Oswald and Eustace formed a partnership in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Short Brothers
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