1946 Collection (page 5)

Robin Cook with members of the NUPE trades union
Robin Cook (Robert Finlayson Cook, 1946-2005), British Labour politician. Seen here in the street with members of the trades union NUPE (National Union of Public Employees). Date: circa 1990s

Robin Cook, British Labour politician
Robin Cook (Robert Finlayson Cook, 1946-2005), British Labour politician and MP, photographed in the street wearing a badge with the slogan Save the Pit

Francisco Largo Caballero 1869 1946 Iln Import
francisco, largo, caballero, 1869, 1946, iln, import, 21, dec, 07, 1936, photographic, portrait, spanish, prime, minister, first, half, civil, war, pictured, history, historical, 10217977

Avro 652 Anson I N4877 - G-AMDA of the Skyfame museum at Staverton Airport N4877 was built at the Avro factory at Newton Heath, Manchester and was taken on charge by the Royal Air Force on Nov 17

Vickers-Slingsby T. 65C Sport Vega EJC
Vickers-Slingsby T.65C Sport Vega EJC (msn 1946, BGA 2714, civil reg G-DEJC), at a regional gliding competition in the 1980s. Date: circa 1980

Consolidated PB4Y-2G Privateer 66260
United States Coast Guard - Consolidated PB4Y-2G Privateer 66260. (Later used as a tanker with number 123). Date: circa 1946

The Guinness Brewery, St Jamess Gate, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, circa 1946. Date: circa 1946

A Striken Caterpillar Tractor which has taken a tumble down the steep bank of a demolition site, ending up upside down in a shallow pool. Date: circa 1946

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Whos making the Brave New World
The Caption verse is Whos making the Brave New World - lets see - Whos making the Brave New World? You-and-Me! This is a reference to Aldous Huxleys dystopian novel Brave New World - a world that you

Christmas and New Year Greetings Card - Skiing Date: 1946

Double page spread from The Illustrated London News showing photographs of the royal family at the Windsor Horse Show, Princess Elizabeth in her capacity as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards

Sad scenes at Rainbow Corner, the American Red Cross Club in Shaftesbury Avenue, which was the main base for US servicemen in London during the Second World War

Robert Nesbitt, Charles Reading, Joan Davis, Stella Moya
Robert Nesbitt, right, (11 January 1906 - 3 January 1995), theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario, particularly known for staging 25 instances of the Royal Variety Show

Robert Nesbitt and Joan Davis planning theatre production
Robert Nesbitt (11 January 1906 - 3 January 1995), theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario, particularly known for staging 25 instances of the Royal Variety Show

Robert Nesbitt planning his latest theatre production
Robert Nesbitt (11 January 1906 - 3 January 1995), theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario, particularly known for staging 25 instances of the Royal Variety Show

IAE President, 1945-46, Frank George Woollard. Date: 1946

Programme cover, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. 1946

Orlando Martins (1899-1985) was a Nigerian actor who had a long and successful career in British cinema. Date: 1946

Adelaide Hall (music sheet Thats the Beginning of the End
Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

Memorial Chapel to St Mary of the Flowering Betuwe
This Chapel was erected in 1946 in commemoration of heavy fighting that took place around this area in September-October 1944 following the Market Garden Operation

Royal Institution Christmas Lecture - Hartridge
Christmas lectures for children at the Royal Institution: Professor Hamilton Hartridge who lectured on Colours, and How To See Them, showing a cat s-eye telescope, 1946. Date: 1946

Len Shackleton, English footballer
Leonard Francis (Len) Shackleton (1922-2000), footballer with Newcastle United and Sunderland, also the England national team, seen here in December 1946. 1946

Revival of old custom, Opening of Chester Assizes
Revival of an old custom, Opening of Chester Assizes - a band leads a detachment of the Cheshire Regiment into Castle Square on 29 May 1946. 1946

Magna Carta being opened by tin-opener on return to Lincoln
The Magna Carta being opened by a tin-opener (from its hermetically-sealed container) on its return to Lincoln Cathedral from America where it had been on loan since 1939

Men in Customs and Excise Training Centre
Men at work in the Customs and Excise Training Centre. 1946

Ian Lawson Johnston, 2nd Baron Luke (1905-1996), British peer, businessman and philanthropist, Chairman of Bovril Ltd and other companies. Date: 1946

Front cover design, The War Story of Bovril. Date: 1946

Man refusing - Outstretched arms with open palms
Book cover design: No politics please by Don McGregor, Finchley Labour Party, 1946 Date: 1946

Silhouetted building
Book cover design: Report of the Union Delegation to the U.S.S.R. : November & December, 1946, Amalgamated Engineering Union, 1947 Date: 1947

Victor Grayson - Socialist - Speaker
Book cover design: The mystery of Victor Grayson by Reg. Groves, 1908- Pendulum Publications, 1946. Date: 1946

Corporal Billy Lance-Corporal stretcher bearer of RAMC
Corporal Billy. A Lance-Corporal stretcher bearer of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Emma Rose Mead (1867-1946)

Miles M. 18 Mk. 2 G-AHKY
Miles M.18 Mk.2 G-AHKY (msn 466, ex HM545), with race number 39, at Coventry - Baginton. The sole M.18 Mk.2, flew from Woodley in November 1939

Mitsubishi A6M7 Reisen (msn 23186, allied reporting name Zeke), on display at Willow Grove Naval Air Station ca1957. This Mitsubishi A6M7 was built by Nakajima Hikoki as their 43rd Model 62 aircraft

Junkers Ju 88 D-1 / Trop FE-1598
(ex Royal Romanian Air Force) - Junkers Ju 88 D-1/Trop FE-1598 (Werk Nr. 430650 / HK959 / Baksheesh ), in outdoor storage / display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force

Avro Lancaster B. I PP741
Avro Lancaster B.I PP741, in storage after disposal. Of note are the bulged bomb-bay doors for carrying Tallboy 12, 000lb bombs and 8, 000lb Cookies. Date: circa 1946

Douglas DC-3A XA-FUV Xicontenatl
Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G XA-FUV Xicontenatl (msn 3261), of Aeronaves de Mexico. NC25617: United Airlines, from November 1940 to July 1948

de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk CF-CXE
de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk 1B-2-S3 CF-CXE (msn 110). Built for RCAF club use. Date: circa 1946

Found FBA-1A CF-GMO-X (msn 1). The pre-cursor to the Found FBA-2A Bush Hawk, first flown on 13 July 1949, was designed and built by brothers N.K (Bud) and S.R. (Mickey) Found from 1946

North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang NX4184N Baily Betty (msn 103-26279, formerly 42-103725) with race number 34. 42-103725 was struck off charge and sent to Searcy Field, Stillwater

Arpin A-1 G-AFGB (msn 1), designed and built by M.B Arpin & Co at Hanworth and first registered on 17 March 1938. This aircraft survived the war but was scrapped in 1946. Date: 1938

British Aircraft Company - B. A. - Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG
British Aircraft Company (B.A.) Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG (msn 449), at Lympne for the 1946 or 1947 (it competed in both) Folkestone Aero Trophy air races

Royal Air Force - Messerschmitt Me 410A-3 Hornisse TF209 (Werknummer 10259). This Me 410 was captured at Monte Corvino in Italy and arrived at the RAE on 14 April 1944

de Havilland Vampire F. 1
de Havilland Vampire F.1 Date: circa 1946

Vickers Windsor B. 1 NK136
Vickers Windsor B.1 NK136 Date: circa 1946

United States Air Force - Lockheed P-80A Shooting Star
United States Air Force - Lockheed P-80A-1-LO Shooting Star 44-85121 (msn 080-1144), at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 1947: Flight Test Division, at Wright Field

United States Navy - North American PBJ-1 Mitchell 35857 NAMU JOHNSVILLE PA of the Naval Air Maintenance Unit at Naval Air Station Johnstown PA

Curtiss-Wright C-46D-15-CU Commando N95445 (msn 33477 - ex 44-78081) of Phenix Airlines. One of several irregular carriers which existed specifically for the purpose of transporting gamblers to

Grumman J2F-6 7790
Grumman J2F-6 N67790 (marked as 7790) Built as a Grumman G-15 - J2F-6 with BuAer number: 33587, it was civilianized as N67790 on 21 October 1946

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