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First School Photo 1960

 

Small boy in a knitted jumper with blonde hair

This is my  first School photograph taken in 1960 at the age of 5 years‚ at the Reginald Mitchell county Primary School‚ Butt Lane‚ Stoke-on-Trent‚ Reginald Mitchell was the Man that designed the Spitfire aircraft. Reginald Mitchell who designed the spitfire was born only 50 yards from the school in a place called Buttlane.

Mitchell‚ Reginald Joseph was born in 1895 at Talke in Stoke-upon-Trent‚ Staffordshire‚ England. He was famous as a British aircraft designer and the developer of the Spitfire‚ one of the best-known fighters in World War II.

Plaque on Reginald Mitchells house

Reginald Mitchell's house‚ inventor of the Spitfire
End of Terrace house


Submitted by Mr Jinks


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