Latest Red Wheel Sites

Location Date Unveiled Inscription Red Wheel Image
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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

Alloa Waggonway 15/07/1905

1768-1924
A successful early railway, using gravity and horsepower on wooden rails to transport coal from local pits to the harbour and glassworks