Place Name Thomas Harold “Tommy” Flowers (December 22, 1905 – October 28, 1998) was a pioneering engineer whose work during…
Place Name James Henry Ellis (September 25, 1924 – November 25, 1997) was an engineer and cryptographer whose pioneering work…
Place Name James Macrae Aitken (October 27, 1908 – December 3, 1983) was a Scottish chess master who represented Great…
Place Name Beltane School was founded in Wimbledon in 1934 by teachers and others who had been forced to leave…
Place Name Industrial heritage. Despite its unpromising boggy ground this small corner of Wandsworth sitting at the mouth of the…
Place Name Thought to be a reference to Castello di Vincigliata, an Italian medieval castle on a rocky hill to…
Place Name Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, (February 21, 1910 – September 5, 1982) was a British RAF…
Place Name Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders (August 24, 1894 – May 8, 1987) was a South…
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…