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...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Naval officer. Born Sussex. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. See Indefatigable for more information, but one paragraph there is particularly relevant to Greenwich Hospital: "Following his reti...
A building that housed an ancient spring supplying water to Westminster Abbey. The right to use this was granted by King Edward the Confessor. This right ceased temporarily at the Reformation, but ...
The Namsos Campaign in Norway, was fought between Anglo-French/Norwegian forces, and German forces. After heavy fighting, the German forces took the upper hand, and the decision was made to evacuat...
Vicar of St Marks, Dalston in 1898. As rector in Whitechapel he built the St Mary's Clergy House (still there, immediately south of this Whitechapel drinking fountain) in 1894–5, also with Herbert ...
Fashion designer. Born Barbara Mary Quant in Blackheath. She and her husband Alexander Plunkett Greene opened their first shop called Bazaar in the Kings Road, Chelsea, selling clothes designed to ...
Born 7 Chester Street, Chelsea. Poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He invented the poetic form called ‘roundel’. Was a good friend of Dante Rossetti, who called him his ’little Northumbrian ...
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