From our Picture source: "Produced in greater numbers than any other British combat aircraft before or since the War, 20,341 Spitfires were built in 22 different variants (excluding the navalised Seafire) and the aircraft remained in production for 12 years."
Researching this we came across a little fact we just have to mention: a technical device made to counter engine cut-out in early Spitfires was invented by Beatrice Shilling and was known as "Miss Shilling's orifice".
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Spitfire aircraft
Chisenhale Gallery From the 1930's to 1970's, the Chisenhale Works - a veneer...
{At the centre around a winged wheel with laurel wreath:} Palmer Hatton Stree...
Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot & leader, Sqn Ldr Brian Lane DFC RAF liv...
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. President of France 1958-69. Just like Queen Wilhelmina, while in London he used the BBC to send popular messages of resistan...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
Soldier. Born George Thomas Dorrell in Paddington. Wikipedia informs that he joined the army at the age of fifteen and first served in the Second Boer War. On 1st September 1914, at Néry, France, d...
Mapping Sculpture explains that this was "Active: 1878 - 1900" and "A successful business run by three generations of the same family: James Mabey (1812-83), Charles Henry Mabey (1836-1912) and Cha...
Born at 3 William Street, Kingsland Road. He became a Tunbridge Ware manufacturer, then a music teacher. He broadened his interests to the general education of working-class children and became the...
Person, Education, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
In 1899 the Wilkinson Sword factory moved from the City to Chelsea where it was known as the Oakley works and in 1903-4 it moved to Acton, retaining that name. Chelsea Despite the name, the Chelse...
Kwame Nkrumah, 1909 - 1972, first President of Ghana, lived here, 1945 - 1947. English Heritage
Former public house located at 438 Old Ford Road. Sylvia Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes converted it into a day nursery and called it The Mothers Arms. The photograph does not portray the ac...
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