This plaque marks the spot where on Sunday 27 June 1982, Captain Harry Gee of Brymon Airways landed his DHS Dash 7 on Heron Quay.
E14, Heron Quays
City Airport was built about 3 miles to the east of this test landing site.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Heron Quays Station
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Greater London Council Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1805-1865, hydrographer and meteorologist lived here.
To people who don't have any prior knowledge that last sentence is a bit of a non sequitur.
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In Dickens' time it was called Johnson Street. His house was number 29 though it had apparently changed to number 13 when the library was...
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