Plaque

Lockerbie bench - 08 - Kuhne

Inscription

Elke Kuhne

Site: Lockerbie bench around a tree (17 memorials)

TW9, Kew Gardens

We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two are out of alphabetic sequence.

A nearby information board: "Although we don't know exactly when this oak was planted, we can estimate from its size that it has stood here for around 300 years, making it older than the nearby lake and landscaped vistas. Its sturdiness over centuries is one of the reasons it was chosen to honour the 16 members of aircrew who lost their lives on the Pan American World Airways flight 103. The flight departed from nearby Heathrow in December 1988 and tragically exploded over Lockerbie before it could reach its destination."

While reading this, one hears the planes, almost one every two minutes, coming in to land at Heathrow, only 7 miles away.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lockerbie bench - 08 - Kuhne

Subjects commemorated i

Lockerbie bombing

Pan Am 103 flying Heathrow to New York's JFK was destroyed by a bomb over Loc...

Read More

Elke Etha Kuhne

Elke Etha Kuhne was born on 17 March 1945 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, ...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Lockerbie bench - 08 - Kuhne

Also at this site i

Nearby Memorials

County Hall - London government

County Hall - London government

SE1, Belvedere Road, County Hall

Designed as offices for London government, the building was opened in 1922 by King George V. We think it very likely that these plaques,...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
William Harnett Blanch

William Harnett Blanch

SE15, Denman Street, 55

Historian, William Harnett Blanch, 1836 - 1900, lived here. Peckham Society

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
John Masefield

John Masefield

W2, Maida Avenue, 30

John Masefield, OM, 1878 - 1967, poet laureate, lived here, 1907 - 1912. English Heritage

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Victoria's coronation

Victoria's coronation

EC2, Gresham Street, 42-44

The errors in the inscriptions (can be viewed at Victorian Web) are presumably deliberate, and mean something. But what? We can find no...

2 subjects commemorated
Red Bus Recording Studios

Red Bus Recording Studios

NW8, Salisbury Street, 34

Unveiled by Sinitta.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator