A very early independent British airline. Eventually absorbed into British United Island Airways.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Morton Air Services
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Croydon aircraft
{On an information board attached to the terminal building, behind the plane:...
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WW2 aircraft crash
The story of this crash is very well told at Their Last Night. Here we give a brief summary. The plane was a a Mark 5 Halifax No DK 253 of 427 Squadron based at Leeming, Yorkshire. It was one o...
1 memorial
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
Elisabeth Nicole Marie Charlotte Clement-Avoyne
Elisabeth Nicole Marie Charlotte Avoyne was born on 25 May 1944 in Notre-Dame-d'Estrées, Calvados, Normandy, France. Known as 'Babette', our Picture Source informs that she had joined Pan American...
1 memorial
Sir Alan Cobham
Aviator. Born Alan John Cobham in Camberwell. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, and went on to become the first test pilot for the de Havilland Aeroplane Hire Service. In 1932 he sta...
1 memorial
Lady Maud Hoare DBE
Wife of Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Templewood but achieved her DBE in her own right, by flying in 1927 a 12,000-mile round trip flight inaugurating the London-Cairo-Delhi air service, the first wom...
1 memorial
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Bycullah Athenaeum
A popular venue for plays and concerts, performed by local drama and music societies. until it was destroyed by fire. The name derives from the nearby Bycullah estate which was developed from 1879,...
1 memorial
Woodbury Hill shield
IG10, Woodbury Hill, 9
This heraldic shield is probably original to the building and has no connection to the Adamses. If anyone can decode the heraldry symbols...
National Provident Institution
In 1835 two men, who had been successful with the Friends Provident Institution, selling life assurance only to Quakers, formed the less choosy National Provident Institution, opening for business ...
2 memorials
Edwd. P. Elworthy
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Bandstand - Queen's Park
NW6, Queen's Park, Brondesbury
The plaque is on the wall beside the steps. It's a pity that the paint-brush operative hadn't been better trained. Queen's Park was offi...
1 subject commemorated
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