1949 Collection (page 11)

Princess Elizabeth with her baby Prince Charles
Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II), with her eldest child Prince Charles as a baby. 1949

Avro Tudor Mk. V G-AKBZ BOAC Stansted
Avro Tudor 5 G-AKBZ was originally built for British South American Airways and named Star Falcon. Used as a fuel freighter during the Berlin Airlift. It was taken on by BOAC in 1949 but never used

Tyneham House
The deserted Tyneham House, in the village of Tyneham, on the Dorset coast. The village and surrounding area was commandeered by the War Office in late 1943, to be used as firing ranges

French bank note, 50 Francs
French bank note, Banque de France, 50 Francs, issued on 19 May 1949. With a portrait of the French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811-1877) on the front

Wg Cdr J. A. Kent with the Deperdussin of 1910, belonging?
Wg Cdr J.A. Kent with the Deperdussin of 1910, belonging to the Shuttleworth Collection at the 1949 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodrome on 8 May

Cierva W11 Air Horse VZ-724 rehearsing for a display
Cierva W11 Air Horse, VZ-724, rehearsing for a display at the 1949 SBAC show at Farnborough. Date: 1949

The sole Bristol Brabazon G-AGPW on its way to Farnborough
The sole Bristol Brabazon, G-AGPW, on its way to Farnborough for the 1949 SBAC show. Date: 1949

The de Havilland DH106 Comet first prototype G-ALVG
The de Havilland DH106 Comet first prototype, G-ALVG. 7 December 1949. Date: 1949

Enola Gay presented to the Smithsonian
The superfortress bomber Enola Gay, the first aircraft to carry the atomic bomb in war when it dropped the bomb Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan in World War Two

SS Lady Rodney off coast of Dominica, West Indies
The SS Lady Rodney (built in 1929) off the coast of Dominica, West Indies, with a young man in a rowing boat in the foreground. 1949

British Legion Childrens Christmas Party, Walton, Essex
The British Legion Club members children were annually treated to a Christmas party at the Walton-on-the-Naze Club in Essex

Gertrude Moran, American tennis player known as Gorgeous Gussie by Wimbledon fans, due in part to the frilly pants designed by Teddy Tinling she wore in 1949

The Edge of the American Sector, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing German men and women removing the rubble barricades between the American Sector and the Soviet Sector of Berlin at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

Cricketer, Gay
Leslie Gay Cricketer - Hampshire & Somerset

Advert for Airborne womens footwear 1949
Practical womens shoe made from calf leather. 1949

Tim Hyde presented with Dunraven Cup 1949
At the Limerick Horse Show, Ireland, the President of the Show, the Earl of Dunraven (93 years old) presents the Dunraven Cup to the former Irish jockey, Tim Hyde, riding champion hunter Florian

Quad tractors with women drivers posing by cabs
Photograph of Quad tractors with women drivers posing by cabs.One of 7 photographs relating to the trades in which Auxiliary Territorial Service personnel were employed, 1939-1945. Date: 1939

Imperial typewriter, Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1935 (c).Associated with the Womens Royal Army Corps. Date: circa 1935

Auxiliary Territorial Service and British Forces in the Midd
Photograph from an album containing 65 photographs relating to the Auxiliary Territorial Service and British Forces in the Middle East, 1942-1945. Date: 1942

Photograph of kit inspection.One of 187 photographs relating to the service of Auxiliary Territorial Service personnel, 1939-1945.Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). Date: 1945

Auxiliary Territorial Service archers
Photograph: Auxiliary Territorial Service archers.One of 67 photographs of Auxiliary Territorial Service personnel involved in sporting activities

The Civic Centre, Bristol, England. Date: 1949

Man & 1948 / 9 Norton Manx motorcycle
Man poses for photograph with his 1948/9 Norton Manx 500cc motorcycle circa 1950

Fantastic Adventures - Eye of the World by Alexander Blade. Two men parachute over a mountain range, passing by a gigantic jewel

Fantastic Adventures - The Robot Men of Bubble City by Peter Worth. A spaceship shaped like an angry face blasts off from an unknown planet

Fantastic Adventures - Return of Sinbad by Chester S. Geier. A man in Arabian dress flies in space on a giant bird of prey. The distressed bird is being attacked by the lasers of several spaceships

J. D. Ferguson Exhibition. May 1949, Belfast Museum and Art Gallery - an interior of the Art gallery, Stranmillis road with paintings on the wall

Couple at the Cambridge Uni Conservative ball
A couple - Miss Colette Hinedson and Mr Leslie Thornton-Wallis - dancing the samba (apparently!) at the Cambridge University Conservative Association Ball. Date: 1949

The Tatler & Bystander, 2nd November 1949, magazine double page spread 1949

Fantastic Adventures - Queen of the ice men
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1949, featuring the story TITLE by S. M. Tenneshaw. A huge beautiful woman stands in front of a red mountain and looks angrily at two men in snowsuit

Fantastic Adventures - Invasion of the Planet Men
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1949, featuring the story Invasion of the Planet Men by Berkeley Livingston. A couple is surprised by a view bizarre looking green complected men coming out

Fantastic Adventures - The involuntary immortals
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1949, featuring the story The involuntary immortals by Rog Phillips. A scientist is standing in a laboratory in front of a tube filled with a golden liquid

Fantastic Adventures - The Man who laughed at time
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1949, featuring the story The Man who laughed at time by Alexander Blade. Man in white cloak holds a golden scale

Fantastic Adventures - The Octopus of Space
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1949, featuring the story The Octopus of Space by Alexander Blade. A man watches another man in a wet suite fighting a huge octopus out of the round window of a

Sarcophagus with relief carving a military scene of soldiers of the Red Army and portrait of Lenin. The Soviet War Memorial (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal) (1949)

Theatre poster, John Loves Mary, Rochester Community Players. The play, by Norman Krasna, opened on Broadway, New York, in February 1948. The film version appeared the following year

Motoring / Hotspur 1949
" You can t escape from the evil eye!" A man in a car tries to escape from a man pursuing him on a motor bike: the back of the car, including the wheels, is missing! Date: 1949

Third Man Music Sheet
Carol Reeds evocation of postwar Vienna, based on a Graham Greene story, makes brilliant use of the music of Anton Karas in the Harry Lime theme and Cafe Mozart Waltz. Date: 1949

Walter Viscount Runciman
WALTER first viscount RUNCIMAN of Doxford statesman Date: 1870 - 1949

James William Lowther
JAMES WILLIAM LOWTHER first viscount Ullswater statesman, speaker of the House of Commons, in his ceremonial robes Date: 1855 - 1949

Henri August Fromageot
French statesman, delegate to Geneva and judge, 1929 - 1942. Date: 1864 - 1949

Poster, Meeting Militaire International, 35th anniversary, 12 June 1949, Evere (Haren) Aerodrome, Belgium. Date: 1949

The Renaissance of the French Army: Impressions of Life in the Famous Light Camps for Recruits - From raw recruits to potential instructors in four months

Churchill as Leader of the Opposition in House of Commons
The devaluation debate in the House of Commons: Winston Churchill, then Leader of the Opposition, making a speech in which he accused Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer

Grimsby Harbour
A view of deep-sea fishing boats lined up alongside Grimsby Quay Date: 1949

Sun and Surf Club, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Aerial view of the Sun and Surf Club, Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida, USA, for guests of the Biltmore and Whitehall Hotels. Date: 1949

Boeing 377 Stratocruiser of Pan Am at Los Angeles, 1949

Douglas DC-3 G-AGKG BOAC LAP 1949
Douglas DC-3 G-AGKG of BOAC at London Airport in 1949 Date: 1949

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