Red Wheel Sites

Hill of Oaks Site of the first 'seaplane' flight (1911) and first seaplane school (1911). Royal Naval Air Station 1916-1917

Opened 1819.

A prime example of a canal where boats were hauled through by hand whilst their horses took a purpose-built path over the hill.

The Stockton & Darlington Railway's Carriage Works of 1853, restored in the 1990s for the construction and repair of steam locomotives

The definitive collection of Hovercraft and air-cushion vehicles, at the base of the military hovercraft trials units 1961-1981

A filling station for the 1960s by architect Sam Scorer and engineer Kalman Hajnal-Konyi, incorporating a hyperbolic paraboloid concrete roof

An ancient ferry crossing, first recorded in 1575; accessed since 1922 by the oldest pier railway in continuous service in the world

Launched here in 1843 as the world's largest and the first iron-hulled, screw-propelled ocean going ship. Towed home from the Falkland Isles 1970

Opened 1923 to a rare design by William Scherzer, the bridge enabled much increased road and river traffic at the White Cart

Oldest broad canal iron trough aqueduct; opened 1811 as the fourth attempt by the Grand Junction Canal to cross the River Great Ouse