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Gan Collection

Background imageGan Collection: Mor o gan yw cymry I gyd

Mor o gan yw cymry I gyd
Winston Churchill, Mr David Lloyd George and Miss Lloyd George at the Eisteddfod

Background imageGan Collection: Di huang, Rehmannia glutinosa

Di huang, Rehmannia glutinosa. Used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Background imageGan Collection: View of Haifa from Gan Binyamin, Northern Israel

View of Haifa from Gan Binyamin, Northern Israel. Date: circa 1940

Background imageGan Collection: Creating model for flight simulator, RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire

Creating model for flight simulator, RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire
Man working on a model for a flight simulator for use at RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire. Before computers, flight simulators used actual models of different airfields in order to train pilots

Background imageGan Collection: PEREZ DE HITA, Gin鳠(1544-1619). Spanish Golden

PEREZ DE HITA, Gin鳠(1544-1619). Spanish Golden
PEREZ DE HITA, Gin鳠 (1544-1619). Spanish Golden Age writer. Cover of the book Historia de los bandos de los zegr� y abencerrajes, caballeros moros de Granada

Background imageGan Collection: A RAF Short SC-5 Belfast CMk1 XR369 Spartacus takes-off

A RAF Short SC-5 Belfast CMk1 XR369 Spartacus takes-off
A RAF Short SC-5 Belfast CMk1, XR369, Spartacus, takes-off from the island of Gan in the Indian Ocean for the last time. The airfield was handed over to the Republic of Maldives on 29 March 1976

Background imageGan Collection: Maldivians wave goodbye for the last time

Maldivians wave goodbye for the last time as a RAF Short SC-5 Belfast, XR369, Spartacus, prepares to leave from the island of Gan in the Indian Ocean

Background imageGan Collection: Gan Kin Foo

Gan Kin Foo
We have not been able to identify this place with a modern location, but it is probably in the vicinity of Beijing

Background imageGan Collection: Ganzhou (Kanchou)

Ganzhou (Kanchou)
Town on the Gan river, formerly known as Kan-hsien or Kancheu

Background imageGan Collection: Stone confirming early Christian missionaries in China

Stone confirming early Christian missionaries in China
Stone found at Si-gan-fou (Chang-an, or Hsian-Fu) in 1625, which seemed to confirm that Christian missionaries had been in China in 635, during the Tang Dynasty, when O-lo-pen (Olopun, Alopen)

Background imageGan Collection: Chinese Christianity ?

Chinese Christianity ?
An inscription on stone found in 1625 at Si- gan-fou, in Chinas Chen-si province, seems to testify to a Christian presence there as early as 635

Background imageGan Collection: France / Montigny-Le-Gan

France / Montigny-Le-Gan
Chateau de Montigny-le-Ganelon (Eure-et-Loir)


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