Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Co-pilot of the first British public airmail flight. He was a G.P. in Beckenham and had been obsessed with anything aeronautical from an early age. He was awarded a grant of £500 by the Alexandra Palace trustees to build a shed, where he created an airship which flew in 1905.
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Dr. Francis Alexander Barton
{Around an illustration of a hot air balloon:} Croydon Road Recreation Ground...
Initially named London and Southampton Railway it connected all the way to Pl...
Formed by the amalgamation of the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingh...
