Flies Collection

A Common Pheasant alarmed
A Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) flies up in alarm. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

A Swallow in flight
A swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

French and English artificial fishing flies. circa 1900

The beehive terminal building at Gatwick Airport in 1937. de Havilland DH86 Express Air Liner, G-ADEA, of British Airways, flies past. Date: 1937

Women Playing Polo
A womans polo hat flies off and her horse rears up as she strikes the ball in a polo match

French artificial fishing flies. circa 1900

An RAF Westland Wessex flies over HMS Fearless (L10) at ?
An RAF Westland Wessex flies over HMS Fearless (L10) at Lee-on-Solent, 2 March 1966

Icarus and Daedalus
Daedalus and his son Icarus escape from Crete with man- made wings, but Icarus flies too near the sun : the heat melts the wax on his wings, plunging him into the sea

Olympics / 1936 / Hindenburg
The Hindenburg flies over the opening ceremony. Date: 1936

St. Georges, Bermuda - Union Flag flies proudly
St. George s, Bermuda - Union Flag flies proudly Date: circa 1920s

A Westland Wessex flies over HMS Albion (R07)

Fishing Flies (American)
Fishing flies Date: 1913

CONCORDE 002 FLIES 1969
Brian Trubshaw pilots the British-built Supersonic transport aircraft, Concorde 002 on its maiden flight from Filton to Fairford, seven years before entering service. Date: 9 April 1969

Monster Tsetse Fly, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
THE EGGS FROM TANGANYIKA - A warship is attacked by a monster tsetse fly Date: 1926

Rural scenery with wildflowers
A red Admiral Butterfly flies above a hedgerow border of wildflowers in this landscape painting by Malcolm Greensmith, encapsulating the English countryside

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1926
French aviator Lieutenant Collot successfully flies his biplane beneath the Tour Eiffel, but in a moment he will hit a cable and crash fatally

Stork / Baby / Allers Jrnl
A stork carrying a baby flies to its destination over snowy rooftops

Bank of England / Busy
Busy street scene including coaches and a crossing sweeper, a figure peers out of an upstairs window and a flag flies from a tower

Poe / Raven Flies In / Dore
A stately Raven of the saintly days of yore flies in through an open window

A skylark soars above the trees 2011

Fishing Equipment suitable for the Lake District
Fishing Equipment suitable for use in the Lake District - includes two inset pictures of Derwentwater (upper picture) and Newlands Valley (lower)

SKI JUMP 1910
A skier flies through the air

Fairies Steal a Child
A fairy flies off carrying a baby human on her back Date: 1908

Transport / Flight / Airship
SANTOS-DUMONT successfully flies round the Tour Eiffel, though he fails to complete the circuit in 30 minutes to win the offered prize Date: July 1901

Burns / Now Westlin Winds
NOW WESTLIN WINDS But Peggy dear the ev nings clear, Thick flies the skimming swallow, The sky is blue, the fields in view, All fading green and yellow

Medea in her Chariot
The sorceress Medea flies through the Greek airspace in her serpent-powered chariot

Cover design, British Airways Summer Timetable 1938, as the crow flies, only faster! 1938

Hawker Sea Fury X flies over an aircraft carrier and ship

At Midnights Stroke
Midnight strikes, and Cinderella flies from the ball

SKI JUMP 1914
A ski jumper flies off the end of the ramp. Date: 1914

WWI Fashionable French aviation outfit
A patriotic young French girl takes to the air in her French air force inspired outfit. With wings and a propeller on her hat she flies through the sky

Rolls in Wright
The Honourable Charles Rolls (of Rolls-Royce) flies his Wright biplane at Bournemouth Aviation Week : but he has a fatal crash - Britains first aviation fatality

Blanchard Flies Channel
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies are the first people to cross the English Channel by air : their flight from Dover ends in the forest of Guines, near Andres

Muybridge / Cockatoo Flies
Some phases in the flight of a cockatoo Date: 1880s

Witch Airborne by Florence Mary Anderson
A witch flies through the air with her companions by Florence Mary Anderson. 1915

Entomol0Gy - Flies

Entomology - Flies

WW2, Jack And The Beanstalk
This illustration shows Peter the Royal Air Force Pilot, meeting Jack in a dream, his beanstalk will not grow, so Peter is suggesting that they save some time

Cries of London, fly paper seller
Cries of London, Catch em Alive-Oh, Fly Paper Seller. Date: 19th century

Henry cartoon, Catapulting Flies, by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

Photograph of Indian troops lined up to receive inoculations, 1916 (c). The high temperatures in Mesopotamia, alongside poor medical facilities, flies

The head of a blow fly. Date: August 1963

AERIAL DOGFIGHT
A deadly game of life and death is played out over Europe as a Bristol flies against Fokker D.VIIs Date: 1918

Lieutenant Collot, a French military aviator, successfully flies beneath the Tour Eiffel, Paris : unfortunately he then hits a cable and dies in the subsequent crash. Date: 1926

Memorial to Irish poet Francis Ledwidge, Artillery Wood
The memorial, mounted on a brick plinth, carries a photo of the poet. Beside it the Irish flag flies, there is an information board and behind is an apple tree planted in his memory on 27 March 2010

Jan van Hoof headstone, Dutch Wargraves Cemetery
This is in the back right hand corner of a Cemetery of Honour which was laid out in 1971.The Dutch flag flies here and there is a plaque to The Fallen 1940-1945

Lesser white cabbage butterfly on a flower
Lesser white cabbage butterfly, Pieris rapae, bastard wasp and fruit flies on a flower. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

Ensign Print Wallet for Photographs and negatives - processed by T W Salmon & Son, Photographic Chemists, Norton and Stockton-on-Tees. circa 1920s

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