Art Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car mb-code 00667941 View of the Quaker's Meeting

View of the Quaker's Meeting House on Redcross Street

'Mansion House Monitor'

Lord Mayor 1910

and was stored in a London furniture depository from 1910 until exhumed in 1956

Addle Hill

Art Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car mb-code 00667941 View of the Quaker's MeetingArt Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car, c1966. Arfons set three Land Speed Records in his jet powered 'Green Monster' car in the 1960s, the fastest being 576. 553 mph in 1965. In 1966, when attempting to regain the record from his great rival Craig Breedlove, a wheel came off the car when travelling at over 600 mph. Arfons survived without serious injury, but never regained the record.