Latest Red Wheel Sites
| Location | Date Unveiled | Inscription | Red Wheel Image |
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| Shoreham Airport | 15/07/1905 |
Britain's oldest airport, opened 1910, and the first purpose-built commercial airport in the world, with a fine Art Deco terninal building by Stavers Tiltman, 1936 |
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| Lincoln St. Marks Station | 15/07/1905 |
Opened 1846 as the Lincoln Terminus of the Midland Railway - the first to reach the city. Re-named 1950 and closed 1985 |
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| Fighting Tank - White Hart Hotel, Lincoln | 15/07/1905 |
The prototype British "Fighting Tank" was designed here in late-Summer 1915 by W.A. Tritton and Lt. W.G. Wilson RN. 400 tanks were subsequently built by Fosters of Lincoln |
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| Anderson's Piano, Pass of Brander Stone Signals | 15/07/1905 |
17 semaphore signals, installed 1882-1913, which return to "danger" if wires are cut by rockfalls |
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| Duke of Sutherland's Railway, Dunrobin Castle Station | 15/07/1905 |
To boost the local economy, the 3rd Duke planned and financed the railway from Golspie to Helmsdale. Opened 16th May 1871 |
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| Leamington Lift Bridge, Edinburgh | 15/07/1905 |
Erected over the Union Canal at Fountainbridge in 1906. Relocated in 1923 whan the canal was cut back from Port Hopetoun to the Lochrin Basin |
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| First recorded UK car journey - Micheldever Station, Hampshire | 15/07/1905 |
On 5th July 1895 Hon Evelyn Ellis made the first recorded UK car journey 56 miles from Micheldever Station to Datchet in a Panhard et Levassor 'horseless carriage' |
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| Hyperbolic Paraboloid Concrete Roof - Service Station A1 - Markham Moor | 15/07/1905 |
A filling station for the 1960s by architect Sam Scorer and engineer Kalman Hajnal-Konyi, incorporating a hyperbolic paraboloid concrete roof |
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| Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway | 15/07/1905 |
Opened 1890, this Victorian funicular is the UK's only fully water powered railway and one of only three worldwide |
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| Alloa Waggonway | 15/07/1905 |
1768-1924 |
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