Posted on Facedbook by Alan Matlock – 3rd July 2024
BLUE PLAQUE FOR TED (and the Supermarine Slipway)
One of our Spitfire Makers project team, Sarah Penfold, has set up a GoFundMe fundraiser to purchase a blue plaque in memory of her grandfather, Ted Angel.
https://www.gofundme.com/…/a-blue-commemorative-plaque…
The plaque will be placed near the (Grade II listed) slipway of the Supermarine Factory in Woolston. This is the only remaining part of the original works and the spot where, from March 1936, as a Supermarine apprentice, Ted would sit to eat his sandwiches.
Having unveiled 11 Spitfire Makers plaques across Southampton, our project is now looking to move into the Woolston area where we know of around a dozen more locations that deserve a plaque.
Our plaques have so far been sponsored by individuals, local heritage groups, a school, a national company and a charitable foundation. We have already attracted funding and pledges for some of these next ones, but we are sharing the link to Sarah’s fundraiser to give you, our many supporters, the opportunity to contribute to the plaque to honour Ted.
If Sarah’s target is reached, she is happy for any surplus funding to go towards some of the other plaques we’re planning to put up in that part of town.
Please give generously so we can mark the history of these sites and honour the memory of those, like Ted, who became Spitfire Makers in them.
(If you click on this link or copy and paste it into your browser it will take you to the fundraiser and more of Ted’s Spitfire Making story.)
https://www.gofundme.com/…/a-blue-commemorative-plaque…
Images courtesy of Spitfire Makers Charitable Trust and Vickers Archive
The Spitfire Makers Charitable Trust 