Erection date: 17/9/2013
The Short brothers: Horace 1872 - 1917, Eustace 1875 - 1932, Oswald 1883 - 1969, aeronautical engineers, worked in arches 75 and 81.
English Heritage
SW11, Queenstown Road, Petrol station
We hunted for this plaque and couldn't find it but our colleague with sharper eyes, Alan Patient, spotted it. English Heritage used to have a splendid picture of this site with two fully inflated balloons.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Short Brothers
Pioneering aeronautical engineers. Oswald and Eustace formed a partnership in...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Short Brothers
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Gairloch House This stone was laid on 29th April 1964 by Stanley G. Shaw whose work for the St. Pancras Housing Society from 1929 to 1958...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
Henry Hall, 1898 - 1989, dance band leader and broadcaster, lived here 1932 - 1959. English Heritage
The large aluminium sculpture "Winged Figure" on the side of the building is by Barbara Hepworth. See Ornamental Passions for commentary ...
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