2008 Collection

Neon Frontage at Walthamstow Dog Racing Stadium
Famous for its greyhound racing track, Walthamstow Stadium opened in 1933. With a distinctive pink and green neon-lit frontage, the stadium has been one of the capitals most recognised landmarks

Edmund Hillary & Tensing
Sir Edmund Hillary with Tenzing Norgay after their successful attempt to scale Mount Everest in Nepal on 29th May 1953. The legendary mountaineer died in January 2008

Queen Elizabeth II opening the new LFB Headquarters
Queen Elizabeth II with Commissioner Ronald James Dobson at the opening of the new London Fire Brigade Headquarters at 169 Union Street, London SE1

North American SNJ-2 Texan N66082 at La Guardia Airport NY. Constructed as a SNJ-2 (MSN 65-2026) with Bureau of Aeronautics No. 2037. Taken on Strength-Charge with the United States Navy 1946

Purple-throated hummingbirds, male
In a fascinating example of sexual dimorphism and plant-animal relationships: the male hummingbird with a larger body and short

Little girl at a window -- No Walk Today
A little Victorian girl stands at a window, watching the rain -- a black and white reproduction of a painting by Sophie Anderson entitled No Walk Today

Unveiling the Christmas Truce Memorial, Frelinghien
The most fully documented Christmas Truce story of 1914 took place between the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Saxon 133rd Infantry Regiment plus the Prussian 6th Jager Battalion at Frelinghien

Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 60-0008
United States Air Force - Boeing B-52H-135-BW Stratofortress 60-0008 (msn 464373)of the 19th Bombardment Wing, with a humorous caption on the nose: - Dear Rocky, not to win is a very Bad Thing

Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker 57-2589
United States Air Force - Boeing KC-135A-BN Stratotanker 57-2589 (MSN 17725) 13 December 1958: First flight. 21 January 1959: 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, Offutt AFB, NE

PZL-Mielec TS-11 Iskra 2008 - 2
Polish Air Force - PZL-Mielec TS-11 Iskra 2008 / 2 (msn 3H2008) of the White Iskras formation aerobatic display team. Date: 1995

Cunard Line, QE2 - celebration album in slip case cover
Cunard Line, Isle of Man Post Office QE2 Farewell Season Celebration. Limited edition 156 of 189 QE2 Farewell Season Celebration large 14.5 x 14 inches album in slip case cover

Cunard Line, QE2 turbine blade limited edition
Cunard Line, QE2 turbine blade. In 1986 the Queen Elizabeth 2 underwent a £90 million refit that marked the end of her life as a steamship as her turbine engines were replaced by a diesel

Captain John Treasure Jones Archive - two items
Captain John Treasure Jones Archive. Born and raised on a small farm in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, John Treasure Jones (1905-1993) went to sea at the age of 15

McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom ii
United States Navy (USN) - McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom II 155893 (msn 3537, base code NK, call-sign 201), of VF-21 Freelancers. (Built as an F-4J-39-MC and upgraded to F-4S; scrapped ca 2008)

Cessna 500 Citation I VP-BGE (msn 500-0287). (This aircraft crashed into a house near Biggin Hill airport of 30 March 2008, after an in-flight emergency during take-off-climb) Date: circa 2000

Short SC. 5 Belfast G-BEPS
Short SC.5 Belfast G-BEPS (msn SH1822, ex XR368 Theseus - G-52-13), of HeavyLift, at RAF Wattisham, circa 1982. (scrapped at Southend in 2008) Date: circa 1982

Rutan Long-EZ F-PPYI (msn 1575). Date: circa 2008

Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd, British comedy actors
Owen John "Terry" Scott (1927-1994), English actor and comedian. Seen here (left) with Hugh Lloyd (1923-2008), probably when they were both appearing in the TV comedy series, Hugh and I

Harold Pinter, English writer, director, political activist
Harold Pinter (1930-2008), English playwright, poet, screenwriter, actor, theatre director and left-wing political activist. Seen here giving a speech. Date: circa 1980s

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Date: circa 1940s

Fidel Castro, President of Cuba
Fidel Castro (Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, b 1926), Cuban communist politician and former President of Cuba (1976-2008). Date: circa 1980s

Israel Aircraft Industries C-38A Courier 94-1569
United States Air Force - Israel Aircraft Industries C-38A Courier 94-1569 (msn 088), of 201 AS 113 FW, at RAF Fairford on 14 July 2008. Date: 2008

Beech B200 Super King Air G-FPLB (msn BB-1048), of Flight Precision Ltd. Date: circa 2008

Morane-Saulnier MS. 893 Rallye 63
Aeronavale - Morane-Saulnier MS.893-100S Rallye 63 (msn 2463), of EIP / 50S, at Landivisiau Airport, Landivisiau France, on 27 June 2008

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 790 - 65-CW
Armee de l'Air - de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 790 / 65-CW, ex Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) In Sinai Egypt. (Armee de l'Air - French Air Force) Date: circa 2008

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 786 - CT
Armee de l'Air - de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 786 / CT, ex Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) In Sinai Egypt. (Armee de l'Air - French Air Force) Date: circa 2008

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 730 - CA
Armee de l'Air - de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 730 / CA, ex Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) In Sinai Egypt. (Armee de l'Air - French Air Force) Date: circa 2008

Slingsby T. 67M-200 Firefly G-BXKW - HKG-13
Slingsby T.67M-200 Firefly G-BXKW / HKG-13 (msn 2061) Date: 2008

Fiat G. 91Y MM6446 / 8-05
Aeronautica Militare - Fiat G.91Y MM6446 / 8-05 (msn 2008). (Aeronautica Militare - Italian Air Force) Date: 1995

Bristol Beaufighter Mk. XI A19-144
Bristol 156 Beaufighter Mk. XI A19-144, under restoration at Duxford. Date: circa 2008

Saab J 32B Lansen 32512 - 03 (msn 32512), of Flygvapnet Veteranflygdivisionen, at Uppsala on 2 August 2008. Date: 2008

Pilatus PC-21 HB-HZC (msn 101), at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 10 July 2008. Date: 1998

Antonov An-2T F-AZHB (msn 17347309). Destroyed on 15 June 2008 following a forced landing due to engine failure). Date: circa 1998

Antonov An-2T F-AZHM (msn 17347311). Date: circa 1998

Eurocopter Tiger mock-up. Date: circa 2008

Ilyushin Il-78MKI RK3452
Indian Air Force - Ilyushin Il-78MKI RK3452 (msn 2043425860), of 78 Squadron. Date: circa 2008

Sud-Aviation SA321G Super Frelon 137
Aeronavale - Sud-Aviation SA321G Super Frelon 137 (msn 137), of 32 Flotille. (Aeronavale - Aeronautique Navale - French Naval Aviation) Date: 2008

Sud-Aviation SA321G Super Frelon 101
Aeronavale - Sud-Aviation SA321G Super Frelon 101 (msn 101), of 32 Flotille. (Aeronavale - Aeronautique Navale - French Naval Aviation) Date: 2008

Sud-Aviation SA321G Super Frelon 162
Aeronavale - Sud-Aviation SA321G Super Frelon 162 (msn 162), of 32 Flotille, at the RNAS Yeoviltaon Air Day on 5 July 2008, in a 50th Anniversary of 32F colour scheme

Transall C-160F F49 - 61-MU
Armee de l'Air - Transall C-160F F49 - 61-MU (msn F49) at Cambrai Epinoy Airport, Cambrai France, on 3 December 2008. (Armee de l'Air - French Air Force). Date: 2008

Dassault MD. 312 Flamant F-AZES - 319-CG
Dassault MD.312 Flamant F-AZES - 319-CG (msn 226). Date: circa 2008

Dassault MD. 311 Flamant F-AZER
Dassault MD.311 Flamant F-AZER (msn 276), of Amicale Jean Baptiste Salis, based at La Ferte Alais, France. Date: circa 2008

Dassault MD. 311 Flamant F-AZFX - 316-KY
Dassault MD.311 Flamant F-AZFX - 316-KY (msn 282), of the Memorial Flight Association, based at La Ferte Alais, France. Date: circa 2008

Boeing 737-700 A6-DFR
Boeing 737-7BC(WL) A6-DFR (msn 30884, line number 747), of the Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight. Date: circa 2008

Shin Meiwa US-1A 9078 (msn 2008), on display at the Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum, Japan. (JMSDF - Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force) Date: circa 2000

Northrop F-5E Tiger II J-3090
Swiss Air Force - Northrop F-5E Tiger II J-3090 (msn L1090-1191), of the Patrouille Suisse aerobatic team, at RAF Fairford

Beech 1900D D-CBIG
Swiss Air Force - Beech 1900D D-CBIG (msn UE-288). (German: Schweizer Luftwaffe; French: Forces aeriennes suisses; Italian: Forze aeree svizzere; Romansh: Aviatica militara svizra) Date: 2008

Detail of the RWF Christmas Truce Plaque, Frelinghien
The plaque is on the memorial plinth unveiled by the daughter of Frank Richards in 2008. There are also plaques to the German 6th Jaeger Battalion and the 133rd Saxon Infantry Regiment

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