400 Collection

Olympic 400m race finish 1924, Eric Liddell
End of the 400 metres final at the 1924 Paris Olympics, showing Scot, Eric Liddell, crossing the finish line first. Liddell was made famous in the film, Chariots of Fire. Date: 1924

St Martin De Tours
Saint Martin of Tours divides his cloak with a beggar

Roman Baths, London
Ladies bathing in the Roman baths in the Strand, London, the remains of which exist today. circa 400

100 Years War / Agincourt
Henry V leads the English to victory at Agincourt, defeating an army four times as large : the French lost 8000, the English 400

Xenophon Reaches the Sea
Xenophon, retreating in Persia, reaches the Black Sea

St Martin (Diez)
BISHOP OF TOURS, SAINT he shares his cloak

OLYMPICS / 1948 / 400 METRE
Arthur Wint (Jamaica) sets the 400 metre record

WW1 - French 400 mm railway howitzer and artillery squadron
WW1 - Camo de mailly - French 400 mm railway howitzer and artillery squadron. The outbreak of the First World War caught the French with a shortage of heavy field artillery

The new coffee tavern at Bradford
Interior and exterior views of the new coffee tavern in Bradford, inaugurated by W. E Forster, M.P in 1879. The Coffee Tavern movement was a Victorian effort to get people out of pubs

Giant of Trapani
The skeleton of this huge gentleman was found at Trapani, Sicily, by Boccatio. He measured 400 feet (121m) though this would not be anatomically possible

White Star Line, RMS Olympic, oak dressing table
White Star Line, RMS Olympic, rare First Class Stateroom oak dressing table, stamped 400 and marked B10 denoting where it resided on board

RMS Titanic - Harland and Wolff drawing of floating crane
RMS Titanic - extremely rare Harland and Wolff linen backed scale drawing of the 150-200 ton 1- 80 scale floating crane, designed by Bertha Krupps and fabricated by Benrather Maschinenfabrik AG

Noel Coward's Cavalcade was a thirty-year retrospect of England in peace and war. It ran at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane between October 1931 and September 1932 and had a cast

Percival P. 56 Provost T. 53 181
Percival P.56 Provost T.53 181 (msn PAC/56/F/400), ex irish Air Corps, derelict at Casement, Baldonnel. Date: 1982

Kawasaki Z 1000 Z1-R, Z-750, KL 250 and KH 400 motorbikes Date: 1970s

Kawasaki Z 1000 Z1-R and KH 400 motorbikes, outside the Green Lanterns Eating House, at The Barbican in Plymouth. Date: 1970s

Kawasaki KH 400 motorbike, with two more Kawasaki big bikes. Date: 1970s

400 metre final: 1st - Redpath, USA 2nd - Braun, Germany 3rd - Lindberg, USA Date: 1912

Westland Lynx 800 ZB500 World's fastest helicopter
Westland Lynx 800 ZB500 (msn 102, ex G-LYNX, ex ZA500'), at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 18 July 2003

Columbia Market
Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) a British philanthropist, established Columbia Market in 1869 as a covered food market with 400 stalls. The building was demolished in 1958. Date: 1875

The Caravel Pinta
Reconstruction of the caravel Pinta from Columbus first voyage to celebrate the 400 year anniversary, which is why the flag flying is the modern U.S. flag. Date: 1892

Parry Thomas, racing driver, inspecting 400 hp engine
Parry Thomas, motor racing driver, inspecting the 400 hp engine on Babs, the car which he designed, gaining a world land speed record of 170.6 mph. circa 1920s

Boeing XB-47D Stratojet 51-2103 (msn 450176) flying as the Wright XT49 Test-bed in the 1950s built as a Boeing B-47B-30-BW Stratojet and re-designated EB-47B in April 1952.December 1954

Armstrong Whitworth Awana - J6860
Armstrong Whitworth Awana J6860. The Awana was designed in response to Air Ministry Specification 5/20 for a twin-engined Troop Carrying Aeroplane

The ruins of Tintern Abbey, a Cisterian abbey, founded in 1131 by Walter de Clare. The surviving ruins span 400 years of architecture. Date: founded 1131

TIME / SUNDIAL
SUNDIAL Sundial on East Bergholt Church in Suffolk. The sundial is 400 years old and reads: Time passes away like a shadow

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter N25KA (msn 400) of Cochise Airlines at Tuscon AZ. Date: 1975

The King and his fleet, Spithead, July 1914 -- some 400 ships assembled in the Solent. Date: 1914

Gold etruscan jewelry. 400-350 BC
Gold etruscan jewelry: Funerary wreath with ivy leaves, pendant engraved depicting a woman and two men sitting around a bowl, earrings and necklace. 400-350 BC. From a tomb near Tarquinia

Lord Burghley engaged to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott
David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905 - 1981), Lord Burghley, athlete, sports official and Conservative party politician pictured at the time of his engagement to Lady Mary

Trial train of 12 vestibuled corridor cars
Inscribed verso Trial train of 12 vestibuled corridor cars, over 400 tons with 6 cpl goods engine - to imitate requirements of Royal train, GIPR'. Date: circa 1905

Greek art. Panathenaic amphora. Black figures. Riders throwing spears. 400 BC. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Handley Page 0 / 400 with wings folded
Handley Page 0/400 long range four-man heavy bomber with wings folded. It was first flown in September 1917, with deliveries beginning in March 1918

Lord Burghley winning the 400m hurdles at 1928 Olympics
The final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, showing Lord Burghley silhouetted against the concrete banking of the stadium racing his way to a gold medal victory

The first Illustrated London News
Front cover of the very first copy of the Illustrated London News, published May 14th, 1842. Founded by Herbert Ingram, who anticipated demand for a newspaper containing illustrations

Customs / Cheese Rolling
Cheese Rolling at Coopers Hill. For over 400 years this Whit-Monday ceremony has taken place to preserve rights of common as grazing-ground

Dromos, Sparta
The Dromos, Sparta, venue for sporting and athletic activities in which the Spartans excelled

Education of young Spartans in Ancient Greece
The education of young Spartans in Ancient Greece emphasises brawn rather than brain

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