Erection date: 2011
A.V. Roe, 1877 - 1958, aircraft pioneer and designer of AVRO aeroplanes, experimented in stables on this site.
2011
Wandsworth Council
SW18, West Hill, Longstaff Estate
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alliott Verdon Roe - SW18
Aircraft designer and manufacturer. Born Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe at Patricro...
Airplane designed and built by Alliott Verdon Roe. The first all-British airc...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Alliott Verdon Roe - SW18
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and ...
Above the entrance to the building (to the left of our picture) in stone: 1573, E.R.".
The plaque refers to the unveiling day being 'Election Day'. There was no General Election in 1956. The Lord Mayor's election to office d...
We are told by our Brussels correspondent, Jean-Michel Pochet, that in 1922 a plaque was erected at Howland Street: "Le poète français Pa...
Sir David Low, 1891 - 1963, political cartoonist, had his studio here, 1929 - 1940. Erected by the Heath and Hampstead Society
A.M.D.G. stands for Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam (For the greater glory of God). It is the motto of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
