<P> During her life, Johnson was recognised in many ways . In June 1930, Johnson's flight to Australia was the subject of a contemporary popular song, Amy, Wonderful Amy, composed by Horatio Nicholls and recorded by Harry Bidgood, Jack Hylton, Arthur Lally, Arthur Rosebery and Debroy Somers . She was also the guest of honour at the opening of the first Butlins holiday camp, in Skegness in 1936 . From 1935 to 1937, Johnson was the President of the Women's Engineering Society . </P> <P> A collection of Amy Johnson souvenirs and mementos was donated by her father to Sewerby Hall in 1958 . The hall now houses a room dedicated to Amy Johnson in its museum . In 1974, Harry Ibbetson's statue of Amy Johnson was unveiled in Prospect Street, Hull where a girls' school was named after her (the school closed in 2004). In 2016 new statues of Johnson were unveiled to commemorate the 75th anniversary of her death . The first, on 17 September, was at Herne Bay, close to the site she was last seen alive, and the second, on 30 September, was unveiled by Maureen Lipman near Hawthorne Avenue, Hull, close to Johnson's childhood home . A blue plaque commemorates Johnson at Vernon Court, Hendon Way, in Childs Hill, London NW2 . </P> <P> Buildings named in Johnson's honour include </P> <Ul> <Li> "Amy Johnson Building" housing the department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield . </Li> <Li> "Amy Johnson Primary School" situated on Mollison Drive on the Roundshaw Estate, Wallington, Surrey, which is built on the former runway site of Croydon Airport . </Li> <Li> "The Hawthornes @ Amy Johnson" in Hull, a major housing development by Keepmoat Homes on the site of the former Amy Johnson School . </Li> <Li> Amy Johnson Comet Restoration Centre at Derby Airfield, where the Mollison's DH. 88 Comet Black Magic is being restored to flying condition . </Li> </Ul>

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