Aircraft designer and manufacturer. His company manufactured the Halifax bombers used in WW2.
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Frederick Handley Page
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Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page, 1885 - 1962, aircraft designer and manufacturer l...
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Charles Rolls
Born 35 Hill Street, W1, son of Lord Llangattock, John Rolls. A keen racing cyclist, he became the fourth man in England to own a car, took to racing cars and repeatedly broke the land speed record...
Person, Aviation, Commerce, Industry, Seriously Famous, Transport
1 memorial
Royal Flying Corps
The potential for aircraft was recognised and so the Royal Flying Corps was established by a charter signed by King George V on 13 April 1912. the first 'wing' (ho ho) was formed out of the Air Ba...
2 memorials
Sir Thomas Sopwith
Aviator and aircraft manufacturer. Designed the Sopwith Camel. Aged 10 accidentally killed his father in a shooting accident. Expert ice skater and a legend in the yachting America's Cup. Born 92 C...
1 memorial
First British public airmail flight
The balloon flight was organised to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII, and was piloted by M. Auguste Eugine Gaudron and Dr Francis Alexander Barton. It ascended from the Croydon Road Recr...
1 memorial
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Janet Gillman
Former councillor and mayor of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
1 memorial
Sir John Kirk
J.P., Christian philanthropist, the children's friend. Not to be confused with Sir John Kirk (1832-1922), the African explorer. Sir John's great great grandson, Peter Mitchell, contacted us to sa...
1 memorial
Ealing memorial gates - WW1 + WW2
W5, Ealing Green, Pitzhanger Manor-house entrance
The quotation comes from 'Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865' by James Russell Lowell. Its right-justification and t...
2 subjects commemorated,
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