An attack by Royal Air Force 617 Squadron on German dams using bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. The operation was led by Guy Gibson. Subject of the 1955 film The Dambusters for which Eric Coates wrote the famous score. The picture source website explains how the bombs worked.
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Dambusters Raid
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Guy Gibson
English Heritage Guy Gibson VC, 1918 - 1944, pilot, leader of the Dambusters ...
Road Research Laboratory
{By an image of a Lancaster Bomber:} Tests conducted by the Road Research Lab...
Other Subjects
Sir David Bruce
Born Melbourne, Australia but the family returned to Scotland when he was 5 . Pathologist and microbiologist, investigated sleeping sickness.
1 memorial
Private Albert Edward Springham
Albert Edward Springham was born in 1896 in Rotherhithe, London, the fourth of the seven children of Henry Albert Springham (1864-1916) and Arletta Springham née Wright (1865-1936). His birth was r...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Sir William Reid
A member of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Born Kinglassie, Fifeshire. Soldier, Fellow of the Royal Society (of Science) and Governor of Bermuda, Barbados & Malta.
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Science, Caribbean Islands, Malta, Scotland
1 memorial
Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St Albans
Illegitimate son of Nell Gwynne and Charles II. Born at his mother's house in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Served the monarch as a soldier in a number of battles. Died at Bath.
1 memorial
Police Station, Upper Street, Islington
Police Station at 277 Upper Street, Islington, N1.The picture source website also has a photograph of this very lamp being fixed to the Upper Street building in 1938.
1 memorial