Place Name Commemorates the telegraph signal station which was set up here by the Admiralty in 1796 to convey messages…
Place Name This was once a quiet backwater known as Wandsworth Plain, gentile enough for royal mistress Elizabeth “Jane” Shore,…
Place Name Named after the 118 day Siege – or perhaps more accurately the Relief – of Ladysmith, which took…
Place Name Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders (August 24, 1894 – May 8, 1987) was a South…
Place Name According to Royal Arsenal History: “The Suakin-Berber railway in Sudan was a short-lived military project that never reached…
Place Name Military heritage. A former military airfield used as a Royal Navy Air Station during World War One and…
Place Name Military heritage. RAF Northolt, in Hillingdon, was one of the key airfields in the defence of London during both…
Place name Originally Ponder Street. A centurion was the principal professional officer in the armies of ancient Rome and its empire,…
Place Name Originally Woolwich Road. The Royal Military Academy was near here between 1741 and 1939. It was, as the…
Place Name The Royal Military Academy was near here between 1741 and 1939. It was, as the name gives away, a…