Experience Collection

British Royal Navy recruitment poster, WW1
A British Royal Navy recruitment poster for seamen, aged 19 to 30, to enlist for the duration of the First World War. No previous experience necessary. Date: circa 1915

Satire on Phrenology
Satire on the study of Phrenology - a Free Knowledgey - illustrating the worst elements of human behavious illustrated in different zones of the head (including Obscene Language, criminal activity)

The Flying Saucer As I Saw It, book cover
THE FLYING SAUCER AS I SAW IT, by Kenneth Arnold, containing his own account. This copy is signed by the author

Air Scouts learning to glide
Two Scouts sit in a Slingsby T.21 while another Scout connects it to a cable prior to launch at the first Air Scout Gliding Course at Lasham. An Avro York G-ANTK can also be seen in the background

Iphigenia in Tauris
Rescued by Artemis from sacrifice at Aulis, she becomes a priestess on Tauris, but her experience has given her a distaste for human sacrifice and she is unhappy

Strasbourg Balloon Trip
The aeronautic experience of Adorne who flew over Strasbourg, France, at a height of 80 feet. He and his companion wave as they pass over the city

Charing Cross Dressing Station bunkers, Ploegsteert
These are close by the Plugstreet Experience 14-18 (Interpretation Centre) and served the Dressing Station which, like many of the sites around here, used a series of Central London names

Well - You KNOW wot men are! A young lady of seemingly considerable experience of the other sex exposes on the subject to an invisible audience. Date: 1934

Notes relating to Board of Trade Titanic inquiry
RMS Titanic, Captain Maurice Clarke Archive. Typed notes dated 28 April 1912 relating to the Board of Trade enquiry into the Titanic disaster

Norway cruises advert
Advert for Norway cruises on the R Ms P Araquaya. It travelled from London or Leith. Date: 1925

Kenelm Stump
A portrait photograph of an older man, wearing formal attire, it is not known whether this is a self portrait, but the image has been used as part of an advertisement promoting the photographic

de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk T. 10 WP829 4
de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 WP829 4 (msn C1/0710), of No.2 Air Experience Flight, at Hamble on 15 March 1961 Date: 1961

Dame Edna Everage and Larry Hagman on a chat show
Comic personality, Melbourne housewife and superstar (or gigastar) Dame Edna Everage (played by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries, b 1934) with the American actor Larry Hagman (b 1931)

A water nymph holds out her arms, inviting a small fairy to experience for herself the joys of a marine existence Date: circa 1880

Raising the dead
A magician successfully raises a dead lady from her tomb in a churchyard though she doesn't seem too thrilled by the experience Date: medieval

Grob G-115E Tutor G-BYUC (msn 82088/E), operated by VT Aerospace Ltd. for the Royal Air Force University Air Squadrons and Air Experience tasks. Date: circa 2002

Grob G-115E Tutor G-BYXP (msn 82173), operated by VT Aerospace Ltd. for the Royal Air Force University Air Squadrons and Air Experience tasks

Grob G-115E Tutor G-BYXM (msn 82173), operated by VT Aerospace Ltd. for the Royal Air Force University Air Squadrons and Air Experience tasks

Grob G. 115E Tutor G-BYUI (msn 82094/E), of Babcock-HCS, operating the RAF's flight experience
Grob G.115E Tutor G-BYUI (msn 82094/E), of Babcock-HCS, operating the RAF's flight experience and University Air Squadron tasks. Date: 2018

Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior N574HA (MSN 12406, ex BuAer 146454), flown by Hughes and Raytheon for radar /avionics / missile development along with at least 13 others

Grob G. 115E Tutor G-BYXM (msn 82173), of Babcock-HCS, operating the RAF's flight experience
Grob G.115E Tutor G-BYXM (msn 82173), of Babcock-HCS, operating the RAF's flight experience and University Air Squadron tasks

Royal Air Force - Beechcraft Texan T. 1 N2824B / ZM323 (msn PM-110). Date: 2018
Royal Air Force - Beechcraft Texan T.1 N2824B / ZM323 (msn PM-110). Date: 2018

Grob G. 115E Tutor G-BYXZ (msn 82182), of Babcock-HCS, operating the RAF's flight experience
Grob G.115E Tutor G-BYXZ (msn 82182), of Babcock-HCS, operating the RAF's flight experience and University Air Squadron tasks

Comic postcard, Little boy and old man - saving money Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man attracted to pretty woman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman in her bedroom - sitting in a rocking chair Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman in her bedroom - Be Careful Date: 20th century

The Australian Diggers Memorial, Plugstreet Experience
The 14-18 Experience Museum was opened on 9 November 2013 and on that day a splendid bas relief of Australian miners digging underground was unveiled. It was donated by Ross J

Field gun and soldier statues, Plugstreet Experience
The gun and the statues, which are cut-outs made from steel sheets, are in the grounds of the Plugstreet 14-18 Experience (Interpretation Centre)

Trompe l Oeuil, Dug-out Experience, Passchendaele Museum Date: 2016

Royal Air Force - Bristol Britannia C. 1 XL656
Royal Air Force - Bristol Britannia C.1 XL656 Adhara (msn13455) at a wet and gloomy RAF Lyneham, dis-gorging Air cadets after an experience flight

Aichi AB-3 reconnaissance seaplane, ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy, for use on the Chinese Navys new warship ordered from the Harima shipyard in Japan

United States Navy - USS Shenandoah - ZR-1
United States Navy - USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first of four United States Navy rigid airships overflying a city. Shenandoah was constructed during 1922-1923 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station

Take My Tip The one way to follow horses with success
Take My Tip.. Theres only one way of following horses with any success... AND THIS IS IT! circa 1930s

WAR REPORTERS MOCKED 1880
The War Correspondent, imperturbable amidst shot and shell - if you believe his own account of his adventures ! Date: 1880

French Advertising Postcard - Mineral Water Gas Soda Stream
French Advertising Postcard - Bowing down in reverence at the shrine of a Mineral Water Gas Soda Stream / Siphon. Date: circa 1930s

A tuberculosis patient being given a direct blood transfusion from a goat, at Dr Simon Bernheims clinic. France, ca. 1891. Engraving

Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Oil

Andreasson Abduction
BETTY ANDREASSON At South Ashburnham, Mass. aliens enter her home, paralyse her family and take her away for a mystical experience

Jack London and Bert hop picking
The writer Jack London (right) and a companion in Kent to experience hop-picking. London was in England for several weeks, living incognito amongst the poor in the East End of London. Date: circa 1902

Mapparium - Stained Glass Globe - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The Mapparium - a three-storey tall glass globe of stained glass that is viewed from a 30-foot-long (9.1 m) bridge through its interior

Andre Jacques Garnerin, first man to descend in a parachute, standing in the gondola of his parachute waving a French flag after release from his balloon (shown at left)

Gulliver / Lilliputians
The Lilliputians clamber all over Gulliver: he compares the experience to an army of rats walking on their hind legs

Ufos / British Columbia /
Domed disc seen by Frank Slotta near Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, leading to a missing time experience

Fate Magazine cover, Bridey Murphy in Ireland
Cover of Fate Magazine, depicting Bridey Murphy (alias Ruth Simmons, alias Virginia Tighe) -- the subject of a reincarnation experience visiting Ireland, home of the supposed Bridey Murphy

Art deco sketches of the dining experience, London, 1921 Date: 1921

Tiny passageway at the base of a column - Nara, Japan
Tiny passageway at the base of a column within the Todai-ji (Eastern Great Temple), a Buddhist temple complex located in the city of Nara, Japan

Experiments on the phone from Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), to transmit the human voice over long distances. Boston, 1877. United States. 19th-century colored engraving

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