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There is a statue to Wallis, created by American sculptor Tom White in 2008, in Herne Bay, Kent. It is a short distance from Reculver where the bouncing bomb was tested. 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's 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. A plaque by the main entrance to the former Vickers (now BAE Systems) works in Barrow in Furness, where he was Chief Designer for Vickers Ltd Airship Department. A Hillingdon Council memorial is located in Moor Lane, Harmondsworth, at the site where the Road Research Laboratory conducted tests on model dams to assist Barnes Wallis in his development of the bouncing bomb. Sculpted busts of Wallis are held by Brooklands Museum and the RAF Club at Piccadilly, London. Buildings The Student Union Building on the University of Manchester North Campus (previously UMIST) is named in Wallis's honour; he 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. A public house named after Sir Barnes Wallis was located in the town of his birth, Ripley, Derbyshire, before being demolished in January 2022. A public house named The Barnes Wallis stood for many years near the railway station in Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire. Wallis was involved in airship work at the airship sheds near Howden in the early part of the 20th century. The building is now a private residence. Street names There is a Barnes Wallis Drive in Byfleet in Surrey within the former Brooklands aerodrome and motor circuit, also Barnes Wallis Close, Effingham, Surrey, not far from where he lived. Additionally, 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 a Barnes Wallis Close in Bowerhill, Melksham, Wiltshire. There is also a Barnes Wallis Drive in Apley in Telford, Shropshire, and Segensworth in Hampshire. Barnes Wallis Avenue at Christ's Hospital. Barnes Wallis Way in Churchdown, Gloucestershire. In Buckshaw Village, Lancashire, a housing estate built on the site of an old Royal Ordnance Factory, a road is named Barnes Wallis Way. A housing estate on the site of RFC Marske in the North Yorkshire village of Marske-by-the-Sea is named after Wallis. Other The Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York has a permanent display of the Dambusters raid including a replica bouncing bomb and the catapult used to skim stones to test the bouncing bomb theory. A brief history of Wallis's work is also part of the display. The Scafell Hotel in Rosthwaite, Keswick, has a Barnes Wallis Suite; the hotel was a favourite holiday retreat of his. The RAF Manston History Museum, Kent, features a section on Operation Chastise (The Dams Raid) and includes one of the few recovered practice 'Bouncing Bombs' that were tested on a sea range near Herne Bay by Lancaster bombers temporarily based at RAF Manston Airfield.
== Archives == The Science Museum at Wroughton, near Swindon, holds 105 boxes of papers of Barnes Wallis. The papers comprise design notes, photographs, calculations, correspondence and reports relating to Wallis's work on airships, including the R100; geodetic construction of aircraft; the bouncing bomb and deep penetration bombs; the "Wild Goose" and "Swallow" swing-wing aircraft; hypersonic aircraft designs and various outside contracts. Two boxes of records, containing copies of key aeronautical papers written between 1940 and 1958, are held at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. Other Barnes Wallis papers are also held at Brooklands Museum, the Imperial War Museum, London, Newark Air Museum and the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Bristol, Leeds and Oxford universities. The RAF Museum at Hendon also has a reconstruction of his postwar office at Brooklands.
== References ==
=== Citations ===
=== Bibliography === Boorer, N. W. (2008). The Stratosphere Chamber. Weybridge, Surrey: Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd. Boorer, N. W. (2008). Sir Barnes Wallis, CBE, FRS, RDII, FRAeS 1887–1979. Weybridge, Surrey: Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd. Flower, Steven (2002). Hell of a Bomb: How the Bombs of Barnes Wallis Helped Win the Second World War. Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-2386-9. Flower, Steven (2004). Barnes Wallis' Bombs: Tallboy, Dambuster and Grand Slam. Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-2987-8. Morpurgo, J. E. (1972). Barnes Wallis, A Biography. London: Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-10360-3. Morpurgo, J. E. (1981). Barnes Wallis, A Biography (2nd ed.). London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1119-2. Murray, Iain (2009). Bouncing-Bomb Man: the Science of Sir Barnes Wallis. Haynes. ISBN 978-1-84425-588-7. Pugh, Peter (2005). Barnes Wallis Dambuster. Icon. ISBN 978-1-84046-685-0. Robertson, Peter (1992). Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41408-1. Stopes-Roe, Mary (2005). Mathematics with Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-4498-6. Wood, Derek (1975). Project Cancelled. London: Macdonald and Jane's.
== External links ==
Examples of papers from RAF museum The Papers of Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, Churchill Archives Centre A short biography of Wallis The Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust Sir Barnes Wallis, Iain Murray BBC history page on Barnes Wallis The Dambusters (617 Squadron) and Barnes Wallis HEYDAY torpedo, Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower. "The Development of Rocket-propelled Torpedoes Archived 8 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine", by Geoff Kirby (2000) includes HEYDAY. Wallis's impact on Effingham where he lived and the story of the swing-wing aircraft that flew without a tail Barnes Wallis at IMDb