Converted Collection (page 8)

Savoia Marchetti SM84 -this flawed replacement for the SM 79 is seen here converted to a transport and flying in Hungarian markings

Bristol Beaufighter TT Mk. 10 RD867, Rockcliffe, Canada
Built as a Beaufighter TF.X (Torpedo Fighter version) RD467 was converted to a TT.X, for target towing. Seen here in bad condition at Rockcliffe Airport in Ottawa, Canada

Shardeloes country house during wartime
Scenes from a country house, Shardeloes, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, during World War II. The house was used as a maternity home for evacuee mothers, offered as it was by the owners

Ernest Shackletons air-propelled sledges, and a tent
Sir Ernest Shackletons air-propelled sledges, intended for use in the Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Shown here operating as air-propelled water boats

Joshua Poole
JOSHUA POOLE known as Fiddler Joss Yorkshire drunkard and wife- beater, who was converted and became a much-respected evangelist. Date: 1826 - 1908

The prototype de Havilland Sea Hornet PR22 TT187
The prototype de Havilland Sea Hornet PR22, TT187, was converted from one of the first production Sea Hornets

North American Mustang I AM208 converted to X standard
North American Mustang I, AM208, converted to X standard by Rolls-Royce when they fitted a Merlin engine

The first YB-29 was converted to XB-39 Spirit of Lincoln
The first YB-29 was converted to XB-39, Spirit of Lincoln, to flight test the Allison V-3420 liquid-cooled engine

Avro Lancaster VI ND784
Avro Lancaster VI, ND784, showing the installation of an Armstrong Siddeley ASX in the bomb bay. Testing was carried out from Bruntingthorpe

Bristol Beaufighter TFX SR919
Bristol Beaufighter TFX, SR919, later converted to TT10 standard. The last production Beaufighter

Chorlton Hospital, Manchester
Entrance to Chorlton Hospital, part of the large complex of buildings on Nell Lane, Withington - originally the Chorlton Union workhouse

St Audrys Hospital, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Aerial view of St Audrys Hospital at Woodbridge, Suffolk, originally erected in 1765 as a workhouse formerly known as the House of Industry for Looes and Wilford Incorporated Hundreds

Dionysius the Areopagite
ST DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE Converted by Paul on the Areopagus, he became the first bishop of Athens but was martyred by Domitian

Place where St. Paul was converted nr. Damascus, Syria. Date: circa 1905

Photograph: Ranghar of the Indian Army, Eastern Punjab, 1943-44. Ranghar was a term applied by Hindus to any Rajput who had, or whose ancestors had, converted to Islam

Conversion of Zacchaeus - Luke 18. circa 1688

Conversion of Saul (St Paul) - Acts 9. circa 1688

Italy. Campania. Cumae. Acropolis. The Greek temple of Apoll
Italy. Campania. Cumae. Ancient city of Magna Graecia. Acropolis. The Greek temple of Apollo, attributed to mystic Dedalus, 5th century BC. Later Christian church

Slide Car Converted to Wheel Car Carnlough - a view of a thatched cottage in the mountains with a cart at the gable, which has been converted. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Carnlough)

Italy. Campania. Cumae. Acropolis. Temple Zeus. 5th century
Italy. Campania. Cumae. Ancient city of Magna Graecia. Acropolis. Temple Zeus. 5th century BC. later converted into a paleochristian basilica. View of walls

Petrus Alphonsi (1062-1140) Jewish Spanish physician, writer
Petrus Alphonsi (1062-1140) also known as Peter Alfonsi. Born Moses Sephardi. Was a Jewish Spanish physician, writer, astronomer, and polemicist, who converted to Christianity

Third Council of Toledo, (589) chaired by Reccared I (d. 601
Third Council of Toledo (589), chaired by Reccared I (d. 601), Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia (586-601). Nineteenth-century colored engraving. Spain

Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. Rome. Italy
Italy. Rome. Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. 141 AD. In the 17th century adapted to the church of San Lorenzo in Miranda. Roman Forum

Anselm Turmeda or Abd-Allah at-Tarjuman (1355-1423). Majorcan writer. Prophecies. Fifteenth-century manuscript

Red Cross Motor badge
During the First World War this label was attached to one of the two motor ambulances owned by Major PHG Powell-Cotton of Quex Park, Birchington

Ambulances arriving at Quex Park VAD Hospital
Major Powell-Cotton is supervising the removal of a stretcher from an ambulance at the front of Quex House. The stretcher is being carried by two VAD Hospital patients wearing the patients uniform of

VAD Ambulances at Quex Park
The two Quex Park VAD Ambulances are parked outside the front of Quex House. A stretcher is being unloaded from Q1, while Q2 alongside is closed up

Robert Beau Feilding
ROBERT FEILDING (spelt thus) known as Beau Feilding; soldier, rake, bully, bigamist, converted to Catholicism to whose priests he had much to confess. Date: 1651 - 1712

Rigep Dandulo, Convert
RIGEP DANDULO Turkish resident in England who converted to Christianity and was baptised in Exeter Chapel, Strand, London. Date: circa 1657

John C M Bellew
JOHN CHIPPINDALL MONTESQUIEU BELLEW : Anglican churchman, who later converted to Rome, renowned both as a preacher and for his public readings. Date: 1823 - 1874

John C M Bellew - 2
JOHN CHIPPINDALL MONTESQUIEU BELLEW : Anglican churchman, who later converted to Rome, renowned both as a preacher and for his public readings. Date: 1823 - 1874

James Gardiner
JAMES GARDINER soldier who lived a licentious life until 1719, when a supernatural vision converted him to behave himself Date: 1688 - 1745

Balloon Factory Paris
The Gare d Orleans is converted into a factory for balloons to carry mail - and sometimes passengers - from the besieged city Date: September 1870

Visionary Woman and Book
The figure of a woman holding a book is seen by Turkish warriors : could it be that she is exhorting them to read the Bible and be converted ? Date: 1642

JERUSALEM / ST ANNEs 1856
The Church of St. Annes which was later converted into a mosque Date: 1856

RATISBONNE
MARIE-ALPHONSE RATISBONNE French Jew who converted to Christianity as a consequence of seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary Date: 15 January 1842

VAD Ambulance & Patients, Quex Park
Voluntary Aid Detachment Ambulance & Patients, Quex Park. Major Powell-Cotton converted two of his personal cars into ambulances and was the Area Transport Officer (VAD)

Feltham Industrial Schools (later Borstal) - Entrance
Entrance gates and lodge at the Feltham Industrial Schools, Middlesex. The establishment was converted to a Borstal in 1910. Date: early 1900s

Harbour entrance, Buffalo, New York State, USA, with the USS Hawk (the converted civilian yacht Hermione) in the middle distance. Date: circa 1904-1908

Lord Tredegars yacht converted to hospital ship, WW1
Liberty, the magnificent yacht belonging to Lord Tredegar, who, at his own expense fitted it out as a hospital ship in August 1914 to transport wounded British soldiers

Pigeons and their motor lorry home at the front, WWI
H.M. " Air" Service - Petrol and Pigeons at the Front. A motor lorry behind the lines, converted into a home for carrier pigeons, used to carry message at the front

Martin XPB2M-1R Mars -this giant flying boat started life as a patrol bomber, but the handful built were converted to transports, plying the Pacific

Junkers Ju 523m -entered Luftwaffe service as a bomber, the one shown having been converted for transport duties

Bristol 142M Blenheim IF-in an effort to counter the German Blitz on England of 1940-41, a number of Blenheim Is were converted to radar-carrying night fighters

Avro 652A Anson Mk X-one of just over 100 Mk 1s converted as gunnery trainers

BAe Systems Hawks RAF Red Arrows XX264 line up RIAT Fairford
RAFAT RAF BAe Systems Hawks taxy out before display at RIAT Fairford in July 2007. XX264 has been flying with the team since they converted to Hawks in November 1979 Date: 2007

BAe Systems Hawks line up before display XX266
RAFAT RAF Red Arrows BAe Systems Hawks line up before display at Fairford in July 2005. XX266 has been with the Red Arrows since they converted to Hawks in November 1979 Date: 2005

BAe Systems Hawks RAF Red Arrows XX264 taxy at RIAT Fairford
RAFAT RAF BAe Systems Hawks taxy out before display at RIAT Fairford in July 2007. XX264 has been flying with the team since they converted to Hawks in November 1979 Date: 2007

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