Red Wheel Sites

Location Date Unveiled Inscription Red Wheel Image
Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare Airfield 17/06/2010

The definitive collection of rotary wing aircraft, at a centre of Bristol and Westland production 1955-2002

Hill of Oaks, Windermere 14/06/2023

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

Hincaster Tunnel and Horse Path 06/09/2019

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.

Hopetown Carriage Works 07/04/2017

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

Hovercraft Museum, Lee-on-the-Solent 18/05/2010

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

Hyperbolic Paraboloid Concrete Roof - Service Station A1 - Markham Moor 01/07/2021

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

Hythe Ferry and Pier Railway 14/07/2010

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

I.K. Brunel SS Great Britain, Bristol 31/07/2011

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

Inchinnan Bascule Bridge 01/05/2024

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

Iron Trunk Aqueduct, Wolverton 22/07/2012

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