Aircraft designer and manufacturer. Born Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe at Patricroft, Manchester. He was inspired by the Wright brothers to devote himself to powered flight. In 1907 he built a biplane at Brooklands, Kent. His first triplane used a French engine, but in 1909, he produced and flew the first all-British plane. Knighted in 1929, he died at St Mary's Hospital, Porstmouth.
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Alliott Verdon Roe
There is another identical plaque (not photgraphed) on the other side of the ...
A. V. Roe, 1877 - 1958, aircraft pioneer and designer of AVRO aeroplanes, exp...
At around 4 am, the plane is thought to have got caught in an electrical storm when it was returning from a bombing raid on Cologne. Three of the crew and three civilians were killed after the plan...
DHC stands for De Havilland Canada. It was a turboprop-powered airliner with STOL (short take-off and landing) capabilities. It first flew in 1975 and remained in production until 1988. The plane w...
A business closely associated with Croydon Airport.
Aviator and aircraft manufacturer. Born Hilda Beatrice Herbert in Vauxhall. The first British woman to earn a pilot's licence, in 1911. Together with her business partner, Gustav Blondeau, she foun...
Built in the 1850s by John Bennet Lawes to house the workers in his chemicals factory. Its foundations were unstable, and on the night of 31st January 1953, the village was swamped by the floods wh...
The Official Gracie Fields has some interesting information and photos about this house when Gracie was living there.
The rather oddly-placed plaque is only visible from the side street, St Petersburgh Place. Trying to locate an image of the building tha...
Below two of the ground floor windows, on the stone window surrounds, are carved about 15 sets of initials (including E. K. G.; F. E.; K....
Hugh Price Hughes, 1847 - 1902, Methodist preacher lived and died here. English Heritage
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