Ground Collection (page 9)

Imperial Airways City of Manchester, Argosy type aircraft, tuning up the engine, Croydon Airport Date: 1930

Imperial Airways City of Manchester, Argosy aircraft
Imperial Airways City of Manchester, Argosy type Aircraft, at Croydon Airport Date: 1930

Comic postcard, Two men in a speeding car Date: 20th century

Shulluks pose by Cobhams aeroplane, Malakal, Sudan
Shulluks pose by Alan Cobhams aeroplane at Malakal, Sudan Date: 1926

Imperial Airways De Havilland Express Air Liner Date: 1930s

Glider used for display at the Cobham Air Circus Date: 1930s

Expedition members in front of Imperial Airways DH50
Expedition members, left to right Alan Cobham, R.W.G. Emmott, A.R. Elliot, in front of Imperial Airways DH50 aircraft Date: 1926

Claude Grahame-White in pioneer flying machine
Claude Grahame-White in a pioneer flying machine

Auto-Giro used by Sir Alan Cobhams Air Display Date: 1938

American Airlines passengers boarding a night flight

Air France airline low wing monoplane

Comic postcard, Sewage worker and boss in the street Date: 20th century

Calendar design - Humpty Dumpty
Design for a Calendar - Humpty Dumpty, having fallen from the wall - safe however as he had been hard-boiled. Date: 1933

Northrop F-5B Freedom Fighter 20441
United States Air Force - Northrop F-5B-50-NO Freedom Fighter 20441 (msn N.8092, 72-0441), of 425th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron - 405th Tactical Training Wing

Handley Page Victor K. 2 8911M - XH673
Handley Page Victor K.2 8911M (XH673) being assembled on the parade ground at RAF Marham. Sadly this aircraft was scrapped in 2020 despite concerted attempts to have it preserved elsewhere

Rock of Gibraltar from neutral ground c. 1880
Rock of Gibraltar from neutral ground c.1880

Reconnaissance photograph Zerbst, Germany
Vintage World War II photograph - official US military photo: reconnaissance photograph of ground fighting in Zerbst, Germany taken from 5000 feet

Women picnic on route of royal wedding
Two women picnic amongst litter on the route of the royal wedding of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Date: 1960

Shadows on a station platform
A woman walks along a station platform, where heavy decorative shadows are cast on the ground. Date: circa 1950s

Park in the snow
A deserted park with snow on the ground. Date: circa 1950s

Heathrow Airport with BEA planes
Heathrow Airport, London, with two BEA turbo-prop airliners on the tarmac. Date: circa 1960s

Empire Air Day display, Biggin Hill, Kent. Date: circa 1930s

View down on Royal Tunbridge Wells from Mount Ephraim, over the Lower Common (and cricket ground) toward London Road (A26). Date: circa 1910s

Bill Edrich and Denis Compton coming out to bat at Lords Cricket ground during the legendary summer of 1947 when Compton scored 3, 816 runs and Edrich 3, 539. Date: 1947

Wales win the Rugby Championship with a win over Ireland at Cardiff Arms Park. Hundreds of people scale the walls of the ground to gain entry after the gates were closed, in defiance of the police

Albert Craig, the so-called Surrey Poet (1859-1909) a popular character who composed poems which he recited at football and cricket matches, afterwards selling printed sheets of his verse to crowd

Craig, The Surrey Poet, haranguing the crowd at the Oval cricket ground on the subject of Max Pemberton and professional football

A public recreation ground for children built on the site of Marshalsea Prison, opened by Lord Monkswell on 25 January 1902 and named after Charles Dickenss heroine, Little Dorritt

Plan of a small formal garden for a stately home, 1821. With paths around a central fountain and flowerbeds. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1821

Gentleman crashing a carriage in a Belfast street, 1822
Brian Boru in top hat and cockle-picker Peg O Shambles crashing a two-horse carriage in a Belfast street, 1822. Hawkers knocked on the street, urchins eating potatoes, a man with shillelagh

Horned ghost crab and zombie crab
Horned ghost crab, Ocypode ceratophthalmus 1, and zombie crab, Gecarcinus ruricola 2. Ocipode ceratostalmo, Gecarcino tourlourou

Fossil skeleton of the giant ground sloth, Megatherium americanum. Megaterio di Cuvier. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Ground lackey moth, Malacosoma castrense. Phalaena castrensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der

Lackey moth, Malacosoma neustria. Phalaena neustria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Ground beetle, scarab and cockchafer
Dytiscus bimaculatus 1, scarab 2, cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha 3, Cantharis beetle 4, Carabus sexpunciatus 5 and Omophron limbatum 6

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)

Edmund Blunden Information Board, Vlamertinghe, Belgium
The board is outside the Chateau. Blunden was in the 11th Royal Sussex, camped just outside Vlamertinghe in the preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres

Ypres battlefields Entry Point North, Klein Zwaanhof
The Ypres battlefield has been divided into three areas, each with walking and cycling routes, and each featuring a particular aspect of the land

Buttes New CWGC Cemetery, New Zealand Memorial
The cemetery lies on an area which was a pre-war drill ground. It contains 1, 317 UK burials, 564 Australian, 50 Canadian, 167 New Zealand, and 1, 703 Unknown, plus 35 Special Memorials

Elderly Native American man
An Elderly Native American man. 1908

Advertisement for Stones Ginger Wine. Date: 1893

Racecourse, cricket ground, football pitch, Shanghai, China
Aerial view of the racecourse with grandstand, cricket ground and football pitch, Shanghai, China. Date: 1920

Veldhoven Liberation Memorial and HCR Memorial
The Operation Market Garden plan required that the Guards Armoured Division, which was leading the ground advance north, should advance at maximum speed in order to cross the river bridges as soon as

US 501st Geronimo Monument, Eerde, Holland
During Operation Market Garden in September 1944, the airborne forces were charged with capturing a series of bridges over waterways that impeded the ground troops advance

Belfast, 1912, showing the football ground & Ulster Hall
Overhead drawing of Belfast, showing the football ground and the position of Ulster Hall. Illustration accompanied a feature in The Sphere reporting on Winston Churchills visit to Belfast in 1912

Scenes in the life of a Stuart Gentleman during the reign of King Charles I, with his thoughts in the skies and his feet firmly on the ground. (2 of 2) Date: 1630s

Dixie Dean, Everton and England international footballer
William Ralph (Dixie) Dean (1907-1980), Everton and England international footballer. mid-20th century

Memorial to No. 6 Commando, Amfreville, Normandy
No. 6 led the way across Pegasus Bridge on D-Day and headed for the high ground which is around Amfreville. In concert with 1st Special Service Brigade they attacked

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