Building    From 1939  To 1946

No. 11 Fighter Group RAF Operations Room

Categories: Armed Forces

 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.

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No. 11 Fighter Group RAF Operations Room

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11 Group Operations Room

Unveiled by Lord Dowding.

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Serjeant James Beaconsfield Nightingale

Serjeant James Beaconsfield Nightingale

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 ...

Person, Armed Forces, Education, France

War dead, WW1
2 memorials
M. G. Yonge

M. G. Yonge

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
H. R. S. Pulman

H. R. S. Pulman

Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces, Music / songs

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
W. J. Burningham

W. J. Burningham

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Major-General William Roy

Major-General William Roy

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

2 memorials

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Hampden Gurney - 2002

Hampden Gurney - 2002

W1, Forset Street

The designers of this plaque seem to be anticipating the need for additional memorials.

1 subject commemorated
V&A façade - Bacon

V&A façade - Bacon

SW7, Cromwell Road

Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Sir Richard Arkwright

Sir Richard Arkwright

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.

Person, Industry, Science

1 memorial
Dowding

Dowding

WC2, Strand

Unveiled by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 31 October 1988, as a Spitfire flew over.

2 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
W. Adams

W. Adams

Loco Carriage & Wagon

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial