Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Tooting was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton.
Actually Shute oversaw the construction of the R101 at Cardington Beds, "The people's airship", while the R100 was a private project regarding design and construction although Government fundedAuthor and aeronautical engineer Nevil Shute Norway lived in Portsmouth in the 1930s. He had previously lived in Howden, East Riding, where he had been working on the R100 airship project.
The Nevil Shute autobiography of his early years in aviation and the R101 Airship disaster
Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Eden.
Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Eden.