Detail view showing a brass plaque on the wall of building Q14 at Fort Halstead commemorating the work done there by Dr W. G. Penney on the development of the United Kingdom's atomic warheads

Date:: 14 May 2008

Location:: Fort Halstead, Building Q14, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent

Reference:: DP060630

Type:: Photograph (Digital)

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The text on the plaque reads " IN THIS BUILDING A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS & / ENGINEERS LED BY THE THEN Dr WG PENNEY / WORKED ON UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC / WARHEADS DURING THE PERIOD 1946 to 1952 / THIS PLAQUE WAS UNVEILED ON 6th APRIL 1982 / BY LORD PENNEY OM. KBE. MA. PhD. D Sc. FRS.".

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This is part of the Job: 2K/15197 Defence Science & Technology Laboratories, Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent; within the Volume: AF00254 England's Atomic Age; within the Series: EHC01/157 England's Atomic Age; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Detail view showing a brass plaque on the wall of building Q14 at Fort Halstead commemorating the work done there by Dr W. G. Penney on the development of the United Kingdom's atomic warheads

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