Little Court (Barnes Wallis’s Home)

Beech Ave, KT24 5PX, Effingham
Kent, England

Sir Barnes Willis lived here for 49 years. During World War II, Wallis conducted early experiments for the bouncing bomb in his garden, using a family washtub and his children's marbles to test the bomb’s skipping motion. Willis is buried in St. Laurence Churchyard, Effingham.

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