It was from this underground bunker that the air defence of London and the south-east was coordinated during the Battle of Britain and throughout WW2. It's now a museum and well worth a visit.
2024: London’s Battle of Britain Bunker Still Revealing its Secrets
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
No. 11 Fighter Group RAF Operations Room
James Beaconsfield Nightingale was born on 19 April 1892 in Horley, Surrey, the fourth of the seven children of James Nightingale (1863-1941) and Alice Mary Nightingale née Potter (1861-1928). His ...
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
Military engineer, surveyor, antiquary. Born South Lanarkshire. Founder of the Ordnance Survey. 1749-55, one of a team that produced "The Duke of Cumberland's Map", commissioned by George II as ...
Person, Armed Forces, Engineering, History, Science, Scotland
The designers of this plaque seem to be anticipating the need for additional memorials.
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
Industrialist and inventor. From Preston. Set up a factory with a newly designed method of cotton-spinning. He worked his employees, including children, very hard and became very rich.
Unveiled by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 31 October 1988, as a Spitfire flew over.
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