Britains Collection

Britains New Navy in Training - HMS Raleigh. circa 1930s

The British Fleet - Spithead, 1914
Britains Bulwarks. The great fleet assembled at Spithead, Portsmouth - July 16th - 20th 1914 for King George Vs inspection, three weeks after the declaration of war against Germany

?Army. Protecting Britain?s future?, 1993.Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, published by Ministry of Defence, 1993. Date: 1993

Gloster E 2839 -Britains first jet aircraft that took to the air for the first time in May 1941

6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps - manoeuvres in Egypt
6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps - manoeuvres in the Egyptian desert near Cairo from their base at Abbassia. This photograph shows light tanks in action over some rough ground. Date: 1936

Magnetron Valve - Britain's Great Contribution to Radar. Date: 1946

The Ack-Ack Song
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Ack-Ack Song, the anthem of Britain's anti-aircraft defender, by Jimmy Kennedy. The image shows an A.A

WW2 Home Guard Greetings Card
A WW2 greetings guard using the theme of Britain's Home Guard. The illustration shows wartime professions, including businessmen, mechanic, butcher and a land girl. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Christmas Card, The Toast Is Freedom
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration titled The Toast Is Freedom. The image shows servicemen of Britain's armed forces and home defence enjoying a Christmas meal. Date: 1944

WW2 Christmas Greetings Card
A WW2 Christmas greetings card containing some quite minimalistic illustrations showing various scenes of Britain's home defence, including figures experiencing the holidays during a blackout

WW2, Women's Land Army Tractor Driver
An illustration showing a young woman wearing yellow, driving a blue tractor, doing agricultural work for the Women's Land Army

WW2, Women's Land Army
This illustration portrays a young woman standing by a white work horse in the middle of a patchy field, she is serving the Women's Land Army

WW2 Britain's Forces With Allies
This illustration combined a number of John Hassal's works, portraying members of Britain's forces during WW2, along with their allies

Adelaide Hall in rehearsal. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator and Broadway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

Adelaide Hall in Copenhagen. Adelaide Hall (1901 - 1993) was a jazz innovator and Broadway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

The Home Of The P. C. C
A drawing which shows the front face of the home of the P.C.C. Great Britain's first postal college of art, an institution to aid artists in the generation of income. Date: circa 1919

In Britain's Riviera
An oil painting of some white houses situated in a row alongside a lane. Date: circa 1918

Cunard ceramics, stoneware jar, MV Molliette
Cunard ceramics - rare stoneware jar relating to the MV Molliette, Britain's first concrete ship

Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxon
Living Quarters, Britain's Atomic Eergy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire, July 1949 Date: 1949

Britain's First Foreign Postcard
In 1875 postcards were first allowed to be sent abroad. A Congress in Berne in 1875 agreed to the formation of the General Union of Posts within which Members could send postcards to each other

The first all-decimal shop
Slightly bewildered Croydon lady, getting to grips with Britain's new decimal currency in April 1970, in the first all- Decimal shop in West Croydon

Allsopp IPA - Britain's Best Bottled Beer

Ballets Negres (programme for The Playhouse theatre)
Britain's first black ballet company Ballet Negres co-founded by Berto Pasuka. In the 1940s it brought traditional and contemporary black dance to to Britain and Europe with sell-out tours

First Powered Airship - British Army Dirigible No 1
The new British lead military airship Dirigible No 1, christened Nulli Secundus, made its maiden ascent at Farnborough. The early design work was carried out by Colonel James Templer

Britain's three Principal Bombing Aircraft 1940
The Hampden, Wellington and Whitley of the bomber command, R.A.F. which were carrying out nightly raids over German-occupied territory. Date: December 1940

Temporary buildings after World War Two under construction at the Bristol Aeroplane Company's factory at Barwell. Date: 1947

Ras Prince Monolulu (1881 - 1965), real name Peter Carl Mackay (or McKay). From the Illustrated London News, 20th February 1965: Britains most colourful racehorse tipster is dead. Date: 1960s

Pilgrimage past the Unknown Warrior, 1920
Mourners visiting the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, London. A British soldier who was killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. 1920

Captain Newcome is shaved roughly on the Equator in
Captain Newcome is shaved roughly before being dunked in a tub of bilge water on the Equator. A sailor dressed as Neptune holds a trident and sits on a throne on a gun carriage

Ballets Negres (flyer for Embassy Theatre)
Britains first black ballet company Ballet Negres co-founded by Berto Pasuka. In the 1940s it brought traditional and contemporary black dance to to Britain and Europe with sell-out tours

Alexis Soyer
French-born Alexis Soyer was Britains first celebrity chef. He was head chef at Londons Reform Club, set up a soup kitchen in Dublin during the Irish Famine, wrote best-selling cookery books

Golders Green Hippodrome theatre programme - Adelaide Hall
Golders Green Hippodrome theatre programme featuring Adelaide Hall. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

Adelaide Hall in Blackbirds of 1928 (New York). Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

A tally to show each year starting at the beginning of World War Two how many men who served or serving in the war effort. Date: 1944

A tally to show womens homefront effort in agriculture, local government service, public utility services and transport, shipping and fishing. Date: 1944

Heatwave - girls enjoying a bathe at Victoria Park, London
Bathers enjoying the heatwave of Britains summer, in Victoria Park, London, where the temperature got to 97 fahrenheit. Date: July 1911

Hoopoe (Upupa epops). A regular spring visitor to Britains southern shores. Date: 1851

Norfolk Coach outside Leadenhall Market, London 1845
Stage coach bound for Norfolk, collecting meat and game from Leadenhall Market in London, Christmas Eve. At that time, Britains railways had very nearly made horse-drawn stage coaches a relic of

Prince Philip inspecting a Bristol Bloodhound surface-t?
Prince Philip inspecting a Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Britain?s first guided weapons air defence station at North Coates

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile, North Coates
Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Britain?s first guided weapons air defence station at North Coates, Lincolnshire. November 1958. Date: 1958

Adelaide Hall outside her home 1A Collingham Road, London
Adelaide Hall outside her home 1A Collingham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London SW5. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator

Airstrip B3 Memorial, Free French Sqns, Ste Croix
The first Free French planes landed here on Liberated soil on 13 June 1944 as part of 2nd Tactical Airforce RAF. Present at the unveiling of the Memorial Area was Wing Cdr Johnnie Johnson

Adelaide Hall signed photo. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

Adelaide Hall in Blackbirds of 1928 (New York). Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

WW2 Poster -- Mightier Yet
Mightier Yet! Britains Mechanised Army grows stronger every day. Recruitment poster produced by HMSO, printed by Greycaine Limited, showing Vickers Mark 2 medium tanks. Date: 1940

Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Inspecting WaC (India)
Photograph: Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Inspecting Members of the Womens Auxiliary Corps (India), 1947 (c).The Women

Felixstowe F5 highlighted Britains poor production methods-America delivering 33 against no British by wars end

Gloster F9-40 Rampage -Britains first jet fighter, subsequently renamed Meteor

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