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
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Plaque unveiled by fellow Welshman, BBC presenter Huw Edwards, who left the BBC in 2024.
Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994), film and theatre director, critic and writer, ‘This sporting Life', ‘If', ‘The Whales of August', lived her...
We took a (very bad) photo of this plaque some years ago. The theatre was closed at the time, but the plaque could be seen in the foyer, ...
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) antarctic explorer, lived here. L.C.C.
English Heritage Marie Stopes, 1880 - 1958, promoter of sex education and birth control, lived here, 1880 - 1892.
National children's charity. Founded by the Reverend Thomas Bowman Stephenson as 'The Children's Home'. Renamed 'National Children's Home' and adopted its present name in 2008. It originally provid...
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