Barnes Wallis - Memorials

Memorials

• A public house named after Sir Barnes Wallis is located in the town of his birth, Ripley, Derbyshire.
• There is a statue to Wallis in Herne Bay, Kent just a short distance from Reculver where his bouncing bomb was tested. This statue was created by American sculptor Tom White, www.tomwhitestudio.com, in 2008.
• A Red Wheel heritage plaque commemorating Wallis's contribution as "Designer of airships, aeroplanes, the 'Bouncing Bomb' and swing-wing aircraft" was erected by the Transport Trust at Wallis' birthplace in Ripley, Derbyshire on 31 May 2009.
• A Lewisham Council plaque is located at 241 New Cross Road in New Cross, London, where Wallis lived from 1892 to 1909.
• The Student Union Building on the University of Manchester North Campus is named in Wallis's honour; Wallis was awarded lifetime membership of the Students' Union in 1967.
• Nottingham Trent University also has a building named after Wallis, on Goldsmith Street.
• QinetiQ's site in Farnborough, Hampshire includes a building named in Wallis's honour, the former site of the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
• There is a Barnes Wallis public house by the side of Howden railway station on the Hull to York Line in view of the site of the airship sheds.
• There is a Barnes Wallis Drive in Byfleet in Surrey within the former Brooklands aerodrome and motor circuit.
• Additionally, there is a Barnes Wallis Close in Chickerell, Weymouth, which is within sight of the Fleet Lagoon bounded by Chesil Beach, where Wallis tested the bouncing bomb, and also a Barnes Road which is off Wallis Street in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
• There is also a Barnes Wallis Drive in Apley in Telford, Shropshire, and Segensworth in Hampshire.
• In golf, a "Barnes Wallis" is a shot that bounces over a water hazard.
• Howden School had three "House Groups" named after Barnes Wallis, Dag Hammarskjold and Albert Schweitzer.
• Sculptured busts of Wallis are held by Brooklands Museum and the RAF Club at Piccadilly, London.