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Street art near Penge, South London
Croydon Airport was the UK's *only* airport in the interwar period, and opened in 1920, and featured the worlds first Air Traffic Control tower, and the worlds first airport terminal. This model is hanging in the terminal, near the tower. Unfortunately the building was converted into offices at some point after it closed in 1959, and much of it looks the part, but [the museum is open once a month](https://www.historiccroydonairport.org.uk/opening-hours/) and gives you a chance to see what was once the worlds first fully purposebuilt commercial airport. Heracles, the plane, was one of [a number of Handley Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_H.P.42) planes operated by Imperial Airways in the 1930's. [Heracles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_H.P.42#/media/File:L'_HP_45_G-AAXC_Heracles.jpg) flew from 1931 to 1940, when it was destroyed in a gale. By 1937, it had accumulated 1 million miles of service.
Taken from next to Warren Street tube station.
These exist elsewhere too, but nowhere I've seen as many dedications on park benches as in the UK. This is one of my favourites: "Nina Theresa Jenkinson 4th of May 1959 - 5th May 2017 She took pleasure in annoying the fisherman by feeding the ducks." It perfectly encompasses the best of British passive-aggressiveness - the bench is near a private fishing-pond inside Crystal Palace Park (which is public). Couldn't do anything about a nice pond being walled off in the middle of the park, but she could sabotage the fishing by getting the ducks all worked up...
Crystal Palace Park in South London has a number of "dinosaur" statues constructed from ca 1850 onwards. They are great, but not with modern eyes looks more like Pokemon than dinosaurs, as they the science of what dinosaurs might have looked like hadn't exactly gotten very far. If you zoom in on the background, you can see a couple of the other statues. [Here's more on the Crystal Palace dinosaurs](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/crystal-palace-dinosaurs.html)
In a South London park.
Ryde, Isle of Wight has a shallow coast, and so the ferries to Ryde go to the end of a pier, and the pier has its own train station. This is the view from the end of the pier towards Ryde town centre.