Converted Collection (page 9)

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

BAe Systems Hawks RAF Red Arrows single Fairford 2005
RAFAT RAF Red Arrows BAe Systems Hawks Taxy out for display at Fairford in July 2005. XX266 has been with the Red Arrows since they converted to Hawks in 1979 Date: 2005

Belgian refugees accommodated at Alexandra Palace, WW1
A huge bedroom in North London - the Central Hall of Alexandra Palace used to accommodate a number of Belgian refugees arriving in London in the early weeks of the First World War. Date: 1914

Medieval portal at Nablus, Palestine, West Bank
Medieval portal (possibly part of a crusader church converted to a mosque) at Nablus, Palestine, West Bank. Date: 1920s

Switzerland - Berne. From Rosengarten
Coloured lantern slide of the Rosengarten or Rose Garden, from which a scenic panoramic view of the medieval town centre can be enjoyed

Former police station - Black and white lantern slide. Single storey building between taller ones now converted to shops.. Part of Box 399. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

HMS Vulcan and C-class submarines, Newport, Fife
HMS Vulcan, a British torpedo boat depot ship converted to a submarine tender, seen here with C-class submarines C21, C26, C27, etc, at Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland. Date: circa 1910

HMS Vindictive, converted to an aircraft carrier
HMS Vindictive, former British Hawkins class heavy cruiser, after conversion to an aircraft carrier in 1918. Flying off platform fore, flying on deck aft. Date: 1918

HMS London, British battleship
HMS London, ex-battleship, after conversion to a mine-layer (in camouflage paint) after removal of main armament - May 1918. Date: circa 1918

Boeing YC-97J Stratofreighter 22693 USAF Prestwick
One of 2 Stratofreighters converted as testbeds for Pratt and Whitney turboprop engines. Date: 1960

The Little Theatre as a soldiers clubhouse, WW1
A page from The Sphere, reporting on how the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket, London (now the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) temporarily converted to become a soldiers clubhouse during the First World

Wingfield House Red Cross Hospital, WW1
Wingfield House Red Cross Hospital, the seat of Sir Vincent and Lady Caillard, which had operated as a military hospital since October 1914 commencing with seventeen beds

A blanket converted into an overcoat for British soldiers
The blanket as overcoat. With the shortage of military overcoats, a suggestion for converting a blanket into a warm and practical coat

Lord Londesboroughs hospital at Scopwick
Some of the wounded soldiers convalescing at the hospital at Scopwick House near Blankney, Lincolnshire, home of Lord Londesborough

Motor cycle with side-car ambulance, WW1
A motor cycle with side car converted into an ambulance, outside the War Office in London. Several of these vehicles were already in use at the front at the time. Date: 1914

Shells in thousands in a recently converted factory 1939
A factory converted into an ammunition production for bomb shells, during the rearmament programme, in a secret location somewhere in the Black Country. 1939

A Post Office for Canadian troops, WW1
A covered wagon converted into a temporary post office for Canadian troops on the Western Front in 1916. Date: 1916

The Soldiers Theatre in France, WW1
The Follies, one of numerous entertainment troupes performing for soldiers in France, giving a performance to an audience from an undisclosed division at a converted factory near the British front

The Holiday Monighan Dragline by Heath Robinson
A dragline machine usually used in excavation, converted into a pleasant holiday home with room for a swing, a washing line and a diving board

Gas-powered transport by G. H. Davis
A substitute for petrol: internal combustion engines run on gas for road transport. Showing a bus with the plant on a trailer, and other types of converted vehicles

london motor buses converted
With the outbreak of war, London motor buses are adapted for army use. Their tops have been removed and converted for use as transport vehicles Date: August 1914

Holidaymakers painting a railway carriage
A group of holidaymakers painting a railway carriage which appears to have been converted into a caravan-style holiday home

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