Erection date: 25/9/2011
Battle of Britain
Spitfire pilot & leader, Sqn Ldr Brian Lane DFC RAF lived here. Missing in action 13 December 1942 aged 25.
HA5, Barrow Point Avenue, 17
Our thanks to Paul Baderman for the address and the press pack.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Squadron Leader Brian Lane
As part of WW2 the Germans set out to gain supremacy over the RAF in the Brit...
Royal Air Force fighter pilot. Born Harrogate, grew up in Pinner. From the ...
From our Picture source: "Produced in greater numbers than any other British ...
Our image on St Pancras's own page is a close-up of this statue.
In 1933 the Duke of Cornwall was Prince Edward, who would later briefly become King Edward VIII.
Here, in early life, lived John Henry Cardinal Newman. Born 1801 : Died 1890.
Victor and Marjorie came to London from Leeds specifically to select names for the board. Having been out on a name-gathering 'morning ta...
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1852 - 1928, Prime Minister, lived here. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
men of the Parish of Our Lady of Willesden killed in WW2
This double plaque, the foundation stone, is under the window on the right. Quite where the scroll was deposited (behind the plaque in t...
Rather than risk life and limb in trying to get to the central reservation, we have borrowed a photograph. The latin name Quercus Robur translates as 'hardy oak'. The cultivar 'Fastigiata' is diffe...
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
Born in Upton, Essex. Died in Walmer, Kent. Pioneer in the use of antiseptics in surgery. The medical historian, Ruth Richardson, has an interesting piece in the Lancet reporting on how Agnes his w...
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