Air Port Gallery

Metropolitan Police Association Football Team

The Metropolitan Police Association Football Team prior to boarding a KLM four engine Fokker plane to Amsterdam. The visit was arranged following an invitation from the Dutch Police Association to take part in their Jubilee celebrations. The main prupose of the trip was to play two football matches against the Dutch police at Amstersdam and Doetichem

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Met Police Authority

Rome Airport - Italy

Rome Airport - Italy - First flight for our family - TWA. Watched it land and were welcomed to go outside and photograph it. The airport was quite small with perforated runways still which were being cemented over. We flew at 300 mph and at 13, 000 feet. Date: 1951

© The Burton Family Collection/Mary Evans Picture Library

1950s, 1951, 50s, Air Port, Fifties, Flight, Italy, Rome, Twa

Lady Broughton at Croydon flying to Africa

Lady Delves Broughton leaving England in an Imperial Airway aeroplane bound for the Belgian Congo, on an expedition to obtain correct detail for the surroundings of a new group showing the Eastern gorilla in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. Plant specimens were required to complete the display which had already been mounted by Rowland Ward. Lady Broughton also intended to obtain photographs of the gorillas themselves. She had previously gone to Kisumu to visit the gorilla forests near Lake Kivu. Date: 1931

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans