Alan Collection

Foxton Locks, Grand Union Canal (Staircase locks) by Alan Firth

Mercury 7 Astronauts
The Mercury Project astronauts standing beside a 106-B plane. (l to r) Ms Carpenter, L G Cooper, John H Glenn, V I Grissom, Walter M Schirra, Alan B Shepard and D K Slayton

National Aviation Day Display poster
Poster, National Aviation Day Display, new events, new thrills, new aircraft, fly with the three aces, under the direction of Sir Alan Cobham, Coming Soon. 20th century

The mountain, Tryfan and Llyn Ogwen N Wales
The mountain, Tryfan and Llyn Ogwen. N Wales. Date: 1960s

Stephen Wards sketches of celebrities, 1960
Through a doctors eyes: a page of celebrities drawn by osteopath and gifted amateur artist Doctor Stephen Ward(1912-1963), as featured in The Illustrated London News in 1960

Turville village and windmill, Buckinghamshire
Turville village, Buckinghamshire. Used as the setting for the film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968. Date: 1970s

Poster, Sir Alan Cobhams National Aviation Day Campaign Air Display (also known as Cobhams Flying Circus), Chapel Farm, Lochgelly Road, Kirkcaldy, 13-14 July 1935. Date: 1935

The wassail bowl
Locals gather round to drink hot mulled cider out of the wassail bowl. Artists: Alan Wright & Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Project Mercury 7
The original 7 Project Mercury astronauts. Top row (l to r): Alan Shepard, V I Gus Grissom, L G Cooper. Front row (l to r) Walter M Schirra, D K Slayton John Glenn and Scott Carpenter

The Causeway, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England

T E Lawrence, Colonel Dawnay and Commander Hogarth
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935), British Army officer best known for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916-1918

North Wales, Snowdonia - Mount Snowdon - footpath on the mountain

A. A. Milne with Christopher Robin
Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956), British author and playwright, pictured with his son, Christopher Robin Milne (1920 - 1996), the inspiration for his famous Winnie the Pooh books

The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London Date: circa 1987

Lake Bala, evening, Gwynedd, Wales. Date: 1950s

Snowdon from the east showing a derelict mine, Wales. Date: 1950s

The windmill, Turville, Buckinghamshire. Used in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968. Date: 1980s

Dinner given by Alexander Duckham at the Savoy Hotel honouring Louis Ble

Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
The magnificent cathedral at Ely, Cambridgeshire, known affectionately as the Ship of the Fens. The present cathedral was started by Abbot Simeon (1082-1094, brother of Walkelin)

AP HERBERT
English journalist and writer SIR ALAN PATRICK HERBERT (1890-1971), alias ALBERT HADDOCK

Parma was a four-masted steel-hulled barque which was built in 1902 as Arrow for the Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London. In 1912 she was sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, Germany

Hatchards bookshop
Advertisement by Hatchards bookshop promoting one of its books. Depicts an Edwardian lady in front of a horse drawn coach. Date: 1896

Churchill and Montgomery crossing the Rhine, 1945
British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, on the German-held east bank of the Rhine, with Field Marshall Montgomery (in beret) and Field Marshall Brooke (immediately behind Churchill)

The top of the British Telecom BT Tower, London. Date: circa early 1980s

View of Derwentwater from Friars Crag, Lake District, Cumbria, England

Walkers on the brow of a hill making a silhouette. Taken near Abridge, Essex. Date: 1950s

German WW2 gun - Noirmont Point, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1980s

Winston Churchill and Sir Alan Brooke
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, chats with General Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, on the bridge of the warship which is carrying them to General Sir Bernard Montgomerys

Fradley Junction Trent and Mersey Canal Narowboat
Fradley, Junction, Trent, and, Mersey, Canal, Narowboat, Inland, Waterways, Watercolour, painting, Alan, Firth, 12021639

Legging through Shrewley Tunnel Grand Union Canal
Legging, through, Shrewley, Tunnel, Grand, Union, Canal, Narowboat, Inland, Waterways, Watercolour, painting, Alan, Firth, 12021638

A Silver birch tree - winter

Sir Alan Cobham (1894 - 1973), English aviation pioneer. In the 1930s, when this photograph was taken (with his wife?), he pioneered inflight refuelling. Date: 1930s

Marlow Bridge over the River Thames, Buckinghamshire
Marlow Bridge over the River Thames and All Saints Church at Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Date: circa 1980s

Storm over Loch, Linnhe, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Scotland, Ballachulish - Loch Linnhe - reflections of the mountains in the lake in the evening light

The Old Mill, Mapledurham Oxfordshire. Date: 1970s

Climbing in the Langdale Valley, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: 1960s

Esk Hause - Great Gable mountain - Lake district, Cumbria
Esk Hause - Great Gable mountain - Green Gable mountain - Lake district, Cumbria in winter

Chigwell, Essex shady trees with horses

Scotland - Strathclyde - Glen of Orchy

Fought to a Finish: A Remarkable Exploit on a Blazing Plane An illustration by Joseph Simpson of an incident described by Mr Boyd Cable (newspaper correspondent Ernest Andrew Ewart)

I love little pussy
Young girl enjoying the company of her tabby cat. Artist: Alan Wright Date: circa 1910

Handley Page Clive III G-ABYX of Sir Alan Cobhams National Aviation Day flying circus. One of the Hinaidi I prototypes, J9126

From left: Alan Shepard Jnr, John Glenn and Malcolm Sco?
From left: Alan Shepard Jnr, John Glenn and Malcolm Scott Carpenter during training at Langley Field, Virginia, for their forthcoming Mercury space flights, 11 January 1961. Date: 1961

Medieval knights fighting a duel with swords. Sir Ethelbert fights Alan over the body of Adelaide. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from The Tournament

Reconstruction of Mesolithic site of Star Carr, Yorkshire
Yorkshiremen of ten thousand years ago: a reconstruction of life on the middle Stone Age lakeside site of Star Carr, near Scarborough, showing typical artefacts and activities

Doing the Lambeth Walk, 1938
Entertainments a la carte, by Alan Bott. On with the walk. Doing the Lambeth Walk: (top to bottom) Lupino Lane, Teddie St Denis, George Graves, Doris Rogers, Martin Gray, Wallace Lupino

Fell walkers on Striding Edge leading to Helvellyn, Lake District, Cumbria, England

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