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White Star Line, Titanic lettercard written on board
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Henry James Beauchamp, rare Titanic lettercard written on board and posted with original one penny stamp

Captain Edward J. Smith on board RMS Olympic
Edward J. Smith, future Titanic captain - original photograph of Captain Smith taken on board RMS Olympic. This is a famous image

RMS Titanic - recipe book owned by William Proctor, brother of Titanic chef Charles Proctor. Hardbound volume with his name and date written on the front

Unidentified Fragment
Fragment of a leaf of a manuscript, parchment. Text in Middle German(?). The text block has wide margins above, beneath and to the left-hand side but the leaf has been cut down the right-hand side

Advert for Standard Cars, temporarily unavailable for civilian purchase, due to the war. Date: 1943

Advert for Terry Anglepoise Lamps - currently unavailable to buy, due to the war. Date: 1943

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter 66-13525 - DD+233
Luftwaffe / United States Air Force (USAF) - Lockheed F-104G Starfighter 66-13525 / DD+233 (msn 683D-7132), operating from Luke Air Force Base, Arizona

McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom 7-0473
Turk Hava Kuvvetleri - McDonnell Douglas F-4E-40-MC Phantom 7-0473 (msn 3636, ex 68-0473), of 7CU AHU, at Boscombe Down for Air Tournament international 1992, on 13 June 1992

Bennett PL-11 Airtruck ZK-BPV (msn 001), of Waitomo Aircraft Ltd. at Ardmore, NZ. on 22 July 1961. (Written-off on 8 October 1963, due to pilot incapacitation). Date: 1961

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1A undergoing an engine change
Royal Air Force - A Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1A of No.3 Squadron undergoing an engine change in the field, under the cover of an inflatable hide, during Exercise Heath Fir in Germany

Holywell Street, London, which was famed for its bookshops, was due for demolition shortly after this photograph was taken, to make way for London County Council improvements. Date: 1901

SVEN HEDIN TO TIBET - 3
The expedition sets out by camel caravan across the Gobi Desert : due to inadequate planning, all but Hedin and two companions die of thirst. Date: 1899-1900

ZENITH BALLOON ACCIDENT
Carrying away the dead bodies following the fatal crash of the balloon Zenith when the aeronauts on board fainted due to the ballon's high altitude Date: May 1, 1875

GRAY/ELEGY/CHURCHYARD
The funeral: "The next with dirges due in sad array, slow thro the church-way path we saw him borne." Date: First published: 1751

Black Ascot 1910
Black Ascot, King Edward VII, who was a great supporter of racing, died shortly before the event. It was deemed appropriate that the races be conducted in mourning

ASCOT FASHION 1910
Due to the recent death of Edward VII, mourning is in force at the Ascot race meeting, and fashionable ladies parade in various shades of black Date: 1910

Learjet 35 N542PA (msn 35-030), of Phoenix Air Group, configured for target and electronic warfare training. ( this aircraft crashed at Fresno on 14 December 1994)

Avia S-199 Sakeen 112. T
Avia S-199 Sakeen 112.T (msn 782358), at the Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim AFB, Israel. The Avia S-199 was produced by Avia after the war

Antonov An-2T F-AZHB (msn 17347309). Destroyed on 15 June 2008 following a forced landing due to engine failure). Date: circa 1998

Antonov An-2T F-AZHM (msn 17347311). Date: circa 1998

Cessna 320A Skyknight AP-AOJ (msn 320A-0046). First registered in the United States of America (USA) as N3046R. Registered in Pakistan as AP-AOJ for Government of West Pakistan, Pakistan

Evening News and Star headlines warn of train delays due to snow. Date: circa 1960s

Sign of the Dog and Duck
The Dog and Duck was a tavern built on St Georges Fields in London in the 17th century. It was named after the sport of duck-baiting, that took place in adjacent wetland

An Alhambra vase, Hispano-Moresque ware. Vaso aribico. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World

Muslim women entertaining themelves in their private quarters. Woman smoking hookah pipes, spinning yarn, embroidering, etc. Appartement d une dame Mahometane avec le tandour

Tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Eyup Sultan Mosque
Turbe or tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari in the Eyup Sultan Mosque, Istanbul. The tomb is open day and night and lit with two large torches and a flagpole wrapped in green cloth

101st Airborne Division Memorial Parachute, Paulushoeve
This area was in the landing zone of the Screaming Eagles, the 101st US Airborne Division, and was known as DZ C. It was where the 506th PIR were due to land

Early struggles 1858
Interior scene of a city dwellings, in the harsh winter months with snow on the rooftops outside and few coal on the grate, a family have got behind in their rent and a broker has come round

Keystone XB-1B 27-334, parked without engines, on 26 July 1929. The Keystone XB-1 was evaluated at Wright Field as P-480, but written off on 21 January 1928 at Fairfield Air Depot, Ohio

Piaggio P. 166 Portofino G-APSJ
Piaggio P.166 Portofino G-APSJ (msn 354), circa 1961. After being exported to Australia on 25 November 1963, as VH-ACV, this aircraft was scrapped in 1968, due to corrosion in the keel

Weir W-2, at RAF Hendon on 19 July 1951. G. & J. Weir of Cathcart in Glasgow were an established engineering company, founded in 1871, which built aircraft during the First World War

Airspeed AS. 5 Courier G-ADAY
Airspeed AS.5 Courier G-ADAY (msn 27), of Portsmouth Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation (PSIOWA). Due to persistent maintenance problems with the retractable undercarriage

Found FBA-1A CF-GMO-X (msn 1). The pre-cursor to the Found FBA-2A Bush Hawk, first flown on 13 July 1949, was designed and built by brothers N.K (Bud) and S.R. (Mickey) Found from 1946

Curtiss XF15C-1 01215 A large mixed-power naval fighter powered by a piston engine and a turbojet engine. 01215, the sole survivor of the three prototypes built

United States Air Force - Boeing WB-29 Superfortress
United States Air Force - Boeing WB-29-90-BW Superfortress 44-87744 (msn12547), force landed at Moses Point Airport, Elim, Alaska due to two in-flight engine failures

United States Air Force - Lockheed F-104C Starfighter
United States Air Force - Lockheed F-104C-5-LO Starfighter 56-0899 (msn 383-1187). Damaged on 11 August 1961 in a landing accident due to nozzle failure at George AFB. Date: 1960s

United States Air Force - Consolidated XC-99 43-52436. First flight 23 November 1947. Flew from San Antonio, Texas to Frankfurt

Conroy Super Turbo Three N156WC. The second RR Dart powered conversion by Conroy was a surplus Douglas R4D-8-C-117D and was called the Super Turbo Three

de Havilland DH. 110 WG240 2nd prototype
de Havilland DH.110 WG240 2nd prototype at the 1952 SBAC Farnborough air-show, (1-7 September). WG 240 was flown by test pilot John Derry in the air display from 1-5 September

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 55 Apollo VX224
Armstrong Whitworth AW.55 Apollo VX224 (G-AMCH, not carried) of the Empire Test Pilot School, at Farnborough. The ETPS had the Apollo for only nine months, during which it only flew 20 hours

United States Air Force - General Dynamics F-111A 65-5701
United States Air Force - General Dynamics F-111A-CF 65-5701 (msn A1-19-28, the 1st production aircraft), at RAF Wethersfield in Suffolk in transit to-from the 1967 Paris Air Show

United States Navy - Vought TF-8A Crusader 143710
United States Navy - Vought NTF-8A Crusader 143710, of the Test Pilot School, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, with a ground run intake guard fitted

United States Air Force - Lockheed TF-80C-1-LO Shooting Star 49-0474 (msn 580-5107), Buzz Number FT-474, from the Air Proving Ground, seen at Detroit. MSN 580-5029/5156 1951: USAF 3200th PTG

Shopkeeper Closes Up Date: 1950

Speeding Along Road Date: 1910

Royal Italian Opera - Foscari
The first English production of this opera set in Venice, staged at the Royal Italian Opera House, London : it is based on a play by Byron. Date: first performed 1844

DO YOU LIKE BUTTER ?
It is popularly believed that you can tell if someone likes butter by holding a buttercup beneath their chin : if they do, the buttercup will reflect yellow : due to shiny skin ? Date: circa 1900

BRITAIN / 18THC / ENCLOSURE
Country people deserting village due to enclosures

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