What is recorded here
R101 memorial is shown as a memorial on the public map of Bedford. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
R101 memorial commemorates the crew of the R101 airship, which crashed in 1930 during an attempt to establish a passenger service to India. It is important as a site of remembrance for one of the worst airship disasters in history and as a symbol of early 20th-century aviation ambition.
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