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Monuments (May 2019) Transport Monument Surname Forenames Title Company Description Date Country Historic county Place Notes type type Air Imperial Airship Officers and men killed at Beauvais, France in 05/10/1930 England Beds St Mary's church (interior), Cardington Plaque Description of the airship and the disaster, with image of grave, at http://www.colindaylinks.com/BedfordLocal/Cardington.html Scheme the R101 airship Air Imperial Airship Officers and men killed at Beauvais, France in 05/10/1930 England Beds St Mary's churchyard, Cardington (in cemetery Grave Image with list of names at http://www.roll-of- honour.com/Bedfordshire/CardingtonR101.html Scheme the R101 airship detached from main churchyard) Description of the airship and the disaster at http://www.colindaylinks.com/BedfordLocal/Cardington.html Brown Arthur Lieut. Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 04/10/1948 England Bucks Family grave, St Margaret's churchyard, Tylers Grave Description of flight at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcock_and_Brown Biography with image of grave at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8746392 Whitten (d. 4 Oct 1948) Green Alcock John Flt Cmdr Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Cheshire Abstract sculpture, Manchester Airport station Monument Description with image of sculpture at http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/albertsquare.html News report with image of sculpture at http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1065875_air_hero_forgotten Roe A V Air Aircraft builder 04/01/1958 England Essex Blue plaque on railway viaduct, Walthamstow Plaque Biography at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliott_Verdon_Roe Image of plaques at http://www.walthamstowhistory.com/a_v_roe.htm Marshes (site of workshop and first flight) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarflondondunc/284670563/ Russell Archibald Air Bristol Aeroplane Co Aircraft designer 29/05/1995 England Glos Blue plaque on At Bristol, Anchor Road, Bristol Plaque Notes with image of plaque at http://www.engineerswalk.co.uk/ewalk.html Biography at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Russell Alcock John Flt Cmdr Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Lancs Blue plaque, 6 Kingswood Road, Fallowfield, Plaque Listed at http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/7174/response/19902/attach/html/4/Manches Manchester (home) ter%20Commerative%20Plaques%20Booklet%20V1.doc.html Alcock John Flt Cmdr Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Lancs Heyhouses School, Lytham St Annes (school) Plaque Image at http://roadmarkers.blogspot.com/2012/02/sir-john-w-alcock.html Alcock John Flt Cmdr Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Lancs Memorial cross, Manchester Southern Cemetery Grave Description of flight with images of grave at http://www.aviation- history.com/airmen/alcock.htm Alcock John Flt Cmdr Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Lancs Sculptured plaque inside Manchester Town Hall Plaque Description with image of plaque at http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/albertsquare.html Brown Arthur Lieut. Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Lancs Blue plaque, 6 Oswald Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Plaque Description of flight at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcock_and_Brown Listed at http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/7174/response/19902/attach/html/4/Manches Whitten (d. 4 Oct 1948) Manchester ter%20Commerative%20Plaques%20Booklet%20V1.doc.html Brown Arthur Lieut. Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Lancs Sculptured plaque inside Manchester Town Hall Memorial Description with image of plaque at http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/albertsquare.html Whitten (d. 4 Oct 1948) Sadler James Air Pioneer balloonist (d. 27 March 1828) 12/05/1785 England Lancs Blue plaque, Balloon Street/Corporation Street, Plaque Image at http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/james-sadler-blue-plaque-in-manchester- 738#.XO0FBY97nx8 Manchester (site of balloon ascent 1785) Alcock John Flt Cmdr Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Middx Statue commemorating John Alcock (d. 1919) and Statue Description of flight with image of statue at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcock_and_Brown Arthur Whitten Brown (d. 1948) outside Heathrow Academy, London Heathrow Airport, Newall Road, Hayes Brown Arthur Lieut. Sir Air Pioneer transatlantic aviator, 14-15 June 1919 14/06/1919 England Middx Statue commemorating John Alcock (d. 1919) and Statue Description of flight with image of statue at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcock_and_Brown Whitten (d. 4 Oct 1948) Arthur Whitten Brown (d. 1948) outside Heathrow Academy, London Heathrow Airport, Newall Road, Hayes Johnson Amy Air Aviator 05/01/1941 England Middx Blue plaque, Vernon Court, Hendon Way, London Plaque Image of plaque at http://www.flickr.com/photos/44559798@N00/3269781054/ (home) Sadler James Air Balloonist 04/10/1984 England Oxon Deadmans Walk, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford Plaque (site from which Sadler (d. 1828) made the first flight by an British balloonist, and the first by a hot- Sadler James Air Balloonist 27/03/1828 England Oxon St Edmund Hall library (former St Peter in the East Plaque church), Queen's Lane, Oxford Sadler James Air Balloonist 27/03/1828 England Oxon St Peter in the East churchyard, Queen's Lane, Grave Oxford (last renewed 1984) Air Memorial stone to Turkish victims of Jordan's 17/02/1959 England Surrey Brookwood cemetery (plot 128/M1), Woking Monument History in John M. Clarke, 'London's Necropolis: a guide to Brookwood Cemetery' (Sutton, 2004) p. 238 Wood air accident, Gatwick Blackburn Robert Air Blackburn Aircraft Founder of Blackburn Aircraft (d.1955) 26/05/2004 England Yorks Blue plaque at Tesco, Oakwood, Leeds (site of The Plaque Olympia Works) Cayley George Air 'Father of Aeronautics' 15/12/1857 England Yorks Blue plaque at Paradise House, Paradise, Plaque Scarborough (his home) Johnson Amy Air Aviator 05/01/1941 England Yorks Blue plaque, 154 St. George's Road, Hull Plaque Image of house with plaque visible but not readable at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/325815 (birthplace) Johnson Amy Air Aviator 05/01/1941 England Yorks Prospect Street, Hull Statue Image at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Amy_Johnson,_Prospect_Street,_Hull_- _geograph.org.uk_-_624737.jpg Bland Lilian Air Pioneer aviator 11/05/1871 Ireland (N. Blue plaque at the site of Templecorran House, Plaque Ireland) Carnmoney, Co Antrim (birthplace) Ferguson Henry George Air Pioneer aviator 25/10/1960 Ireland (N. Hillsborough Forest, Lisburn Plaque Image and description at http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/henry-george-ferguson-brass- plaque-in-hillsborough-10972#.XO-ZU497nx9 (Harry) Ireland) Gilmore John Joseph Air Pioneer aviator 01/05/1945 Ireland (N. Blue plaque at 20 High Street, Ardglass, Co Down Plaque Image and description at https://ulsterhistorycircle.org.uk/john-joseph-gilmore/ Ireland) Peel William Sir Railway Sandy & Potton R Promoter of Sandy & Potton Railway 27/04/1858 England Beds St Swithun's church, Sandy (south transept) Statue Image with biographical data at http://www.rogersstudy.co.uk/peel/peel5.html Stephen George 1st Baron Mount Railway Canadian Pacific President of Canadian Pacific Railway 29/11/1921 England Beds St John the Evangelist's church, Lemsford Plaque Biography of Mountstephen at http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01- e.php?&id_nbr=8375 Stephen Railway Whitbread William Henry Railway Midland R Supporter of the Midland R's Bedford-Hitchin 21/06/1867 England Beds Obelisk in Southill Park near the former Southill Monument Image & transcription in R. Davies and M. D. Grant, 'Railway History in Pictures: Chilterns and Cotswolds' (David & Charles, 1977) p. 86 line station. Grid Ref TL132419 (visible from road) Brunel Isambard Railway Great Western R Railway engineer and shipbuilder 00/00/1838 England Berks Plaque on Maidenhead railway bridge; attached in Plaque Notes on the bridge and image of the plaque at http://thames.me.uk/s00710.htm Kingdom 1975 Gooch Daniel Sir Railway Great Western R Chairman 15/10/1889 England Berks St Andrew's church, Clewer Grave Assessment of professional career with references and links at http://www.steamindex.com/people/gooch.htm West Henry Railway Great Western R Railway worker killed by a "whirlwind" 24/03/1840 England Berks Platform 4, Reading (General) station, which Plaque Brief description of the event at http://www.flickr.com/photos/h2oalchemist/379700603/ Plaque erected 1994 with verbatim transcription of wooden board in St Laurence's states that he was killed by a whirlwind (or was it churchyard the GWR's 'Hurricane' locomotive?) West Henry Railway Great Western R Railway worker killed by a "whirlwind" 24/03/1840 England Berks Wooden board in St Laurence's churchyard, Memorial Image of the board and brief description of the event at http://www.flickr.com/photos/h2oalchemist/379700603/ Reading which states that he was killed by a whirlwind (or was it the GWR's 'Hurricane' locomotive?) Knight Walter Railway Great Western & Great Tunnel construction worker 06/09/1902 England Bucks High Wycombe cemetery Grave One of six construction workers killed in a collapse during construction of the White House tunnel. Further details in Stanley C Jenkins, 'The Great Western & Great Central Joint Central Joint R Railway', 2nd rev. ed. 2006, pp 26-7. See too http://www.galaxypix.com/Sally/Flackwellfolk/TheKeensstory.html McConnell James Edward Railway London & North Locomotive superintendent, southern division 11/06/1883 England Bucks Great Missenden churchyard Grave Professional career at http://www.steamindex.com/people/mcconnel.htm Western R of LNWR Morton Harry Railway Great Western & Great Tunnel construction worker 06/09/1902 England Bucks High Wycombe cemetery Grave One of six construction workers killed in a collapse during construction of the White House tunnel. Further details in Stanley C Jenkins, 'The Great Western & Great Central Joint Central Joint R Railway', 2nd rev.
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