Walter Owen Bentley (1888 - 1971), "W. O." to his friends, founded Bentley Motors Limited. The chassis for the first model (3 litres) was exhibited at the London Motor Show in October 1919. By December it had a working engine. But it was not until September 1921 that the first was on the streets.
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Bentley Motor Car
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Bentley Motor Car
Google Street View shows the plaque in place March 2022 but just an empty fra...
Bentley Motor Car - first lost plaque
This image was taken by Alan Zafer and was published in the Ham & High. ...
Other Subjects
Henry Philip Creese
Deck Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar Street, Sou...
1 memorial
Phineas Pett
Master Shipwright. Born at Deptford Strond (a parish in Deptford). First Resident Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard, he designed and built several ships including the 'Prince Royal' which he built i...
3 memorials
William Rankine
Born Edinburgh. Physicist. Worked in thermodynamics. Never married but was musical and wrote humorous songs. Died Glasgow.
2 memorials
Sir Ambrose Crowley
Ironmonger. Born in Stourbridge. He established iron works in County Durham, and was ahead of his time in the enlightened way in which he treated his employees. In 1705 he moved to Greenwich, to a ...
1 memorial
Herbert Gifford Harvey
Junior Assistant 2nd Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park...
1 memorial
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Texas Legation
SW1, Pickering Place, 3
The plaque was erected on the initiative of Sir Alfred Bossom MP, then president of the Anglo-Texan Society. It was unveiled by former Te...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Harrow on the Hill war memorial
HA1, Lowlands Road
Names are inscribed on the vertical faces of the 4 steps leading up to the plinth. Many of these are too weather-beaten to read so we hav...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Dorota Rynkiewicz
Dorota K. Rynkiewicz was born on 30 April 1981 in Elblag, Poland. On 25 December 2005 she married her husband, Andrzej W. Rynkiewicz, and they had two children Nicole Rynkiewicz who was born on 13 ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Queen Victoria at Middle Temple Lane
EC4, Victoria Embankment, Middle Temple Lane entrance
This 1878-9 building by E. M. Barry was hidden behind scaffolding when we visited in November 2013 but by April 2014 it was showing its n...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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