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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Chisenhale Works
Built by Morris Cohen to produce veneer for the construction of Spitfire cockpits, as well as propellers and plywood for Mosquito aircraft. The plaque on the building says it existed from the 1930s...
1 memorial
Royal Naval Air Service
We can't find a date for when this was first formed; it seems to have come into existence gradually. The use of aircraft for military and naval purposes was first discussed officially in 1908. Tw...
2 memorials
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
First British airmail post office
At this time post offices were 10-a-penny (cheaper than the stamps they sold, ha ha) but airmail post offices were rare as hens' teeth, since airmail did not exist - the only way to send a letter b...
1 memorial
Shoreham Aircraft Museum
Founded by local enthusiasts, whose passion for the Battle of Britain period resulted in the establishment of a permanent display in 1988. It houses hundreds of relics excavated by the group from c...
2 memorials
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Guildhall School of Music - Purcell
EC4, John Carpenter Street
This complex of buildings was created to house the Guildhall School of Music, who had outgrown their premises at Aldermanbury. Designed b...
1 subject commemorated
Robert Trotter fountain - SW3
SW3, Fulham Road, Pelham Crescent Gardens
"1 Thess. 1-3" is a biblical reference, the text of which reads: "Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Harrow & Wealdstone Station
HA3, The Bridge, Harrow & Wealdstone Station, north entrance
Inside the station are two other plaques which we've transcribed but they are too dull to warrant the full treatment: Dull plaque 1: This...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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