Erection date: 2002
Inscription
{Around an illustration of a hot air balloon:}
Croydon Road Recreation Ground 9th August 1902
Britain's first public airmail flight Beckenham - Leeds Castle - Godmersham - Dover
Pilots M. Auguste Eugine Gaudron, Dr Francis Alexander Barton.
Bromley & Beckenham Philatelic Society 2002
Site: First British public airmail flight (1 memorial)
BR3, Croydon Road Recreation Ground, Croydon Road
The plaque is on the grass beneath the group of trees in the photograph.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
