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 have a 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...
No erection date is given but we've guessed that the work was done and the plaque erected in time for the Jubilee in 1977.
The foundation stone is low down on the Ingestre Place elevation. The history plaque, in our photo hiding behind the 'no bikes' sign, is ...
A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to William McMillan) is spurious and was erected by developers purely to b...
From the wording and the style, these plaques must have been erected along with the 1877 clock tower. The impetus behind both the constru...
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