Hatfield Collection

Handley Page Victor B1 XA930 taking off from Hatfield
Handley Page Victor B1, XA930, taking off from Hatfield on 14 July 1960 at 190, 000lb all-up weight assisted by de Havilland Spectre rockets. Date: 1960

Air Race for the Kings Cup Poster
Poster, Air Race for the Kings Cup, at Hatfield Aerodrome, with a stylised image of two planes racing. July 1934

The de Havilland DH106 Comet first prototype G-5-1
The de Havilland DH106 Comet first prototype, G-5-1 (later registered G-ALVG) with the third de Havilland DH108, VW120, at Hatfield, 27 July 1949. Date: 1949

LCC-LFB Dennis motorised Hatfield fire engine
LCC-London Fire Brigade, Dennis motorised Hatfield fire engine with crew

The maiden flight of the first BAe146 G-SSSH from Hatfield
The maiden flight of the first BAe146, G-SSSH, from Hatfield on 3 September 1981. A BAe125 acts as chase plane. Date: 1981

LCC-LFB Merryweather self-propelled Hatfield pump
Merryweather Hatfield pump, with crew. This was one of the first motorised fire engines used by the London Fire Brigade, capable of 30 mph

The BAe146 production line at Hatfield

The first de Havilland DH106 Comet 4 G-APDA of BOAC
The first de Havilland DH106 Comet 4, G-APDA, of BOAC, at Hatfield on the day of its first flight, 27 April 1958. Date: 1958

Percival E3H Mew Gull, G-AFa, at Hatfield after finishing third in the 1937 Kings Cup Race flown by Edgar Percival

Photograph of Stonehouse Hotel, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

de Havilland DH60M Moth, G-ABHN, over London
de Havilland DH60M Moth, G-ABHN, over the London Aeroplane Club, Hatfield, in 1933

Eight Bells, Hatfield
The Eight Bells inn at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, referred to in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Bill Sykes met the pedlar here. Date: 1950s

Suffragette Grace Chappelow Votes for Women. Grace Chappelow (1884-1971), born in Hatfield Peverel, Nr Chelmsford, Essex. Shown selling and advertising Votes for Women newspaper

Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, around the time of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I (1559). As Princess Elizabeth she lived there in a form of semi-confinement, during the reign of Queen Mary

Hatfield aerodrome, Hertfordshire

Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, the celebrated Jacobean mansion built by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and the home of the Cecil family ever since

Timber-Framed Cottages
Timber-framed Clergy Houses just within the gateway of the churchyard at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 16th century

Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident Super 3B-140
First-Flight Take-Off of the Hawker Siddeley Hs-121 Trident Super 3B-140 Most Powerful Variant of the Trident Family with a Photographer in the Foreground Date: 1975

Blue Streak in LT Tower - Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory
Blue Streak in the LT Tower at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield

Blue Streak test rig installation at Hatfield, c1958
Blue Streak test rig installation at Hatfield, circa 1958. Date: circa 1958

Modernist House, Nast Hyde, Hatfield
A series of photographs showing various angles of a modernist house situated at Nast Hyde, Hatfield, designed in 1935 by architect Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke. Date: circa 1937

Dorking
A London general omnibus company poster for Hatfield, designed by F Gregory Brown. The image depicts a landscape with trees and fields. Includes an extract of a poem by Matthew Arnold. Date: 1920

Lord Salisbury's stables in Hatfield house. Known as Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil. Born at Hatfield house (3 February 1830 ?)

Diving Off a Bi-Plane
A Moth bi-plane being put to imaginative use at the De Havilland School of Flying at Hatfield. Date: 1932

The Gates, Hatfield House
The Main Gates, Hatfield House, set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1903

The Chapel, Hatfield House - consecrated in 1614. Date: 1903

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125-3B HB-VAY
Hawker Siddeley HS.125-3B HB-VAY (msn 25135), at Hatfield, prior to delivery. (This aircraft was written-off in a fatal accident at Edinburgh Airport / RAF Turnhouse on 20 July 1970) Date: 1967

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125-400B G-BAZB
Hawker Siddeley HS.125-400B G-BAZB (msn 25252, ex G-5-17, ex CC.1 XX505), of Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd. at Hatfield. Date: 1973

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125-3B VH-ECF
Hawker Siddeley HS.125-3B VH-ECF (msn 25069), prior to delivery to Qantas (Queensland and Northern Territories Air Service), with Short SC.9 XH132

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125 Series 1BR/522 G-ATWH
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 Series 1BR/522 G-ATWH (msn 25094), of Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd. at a Hatfield open day. Date: 1966

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125 series 3 VH-ECF
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 series 3 VH-ECF (msn 25069), prior to delivery to Qantas (Queensland and Northern Territories Air Service), with Short SC.9 XH132

The Funeral of Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, 1903
Photograph of the funeral of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil (1830-1903), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, English Conservative Statesman, at the church of St. Etheldreda, Hatfield, 31st August 1903

The 20-seat Daimler bus for Doncaster, Edenthorpe, Hatfield and Thorne (new village). When Ernest Parish started running on a route between Doncaster and Armthorpe

Photograph of Crown PH, Hatfield Peverel, Essex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Left Face on view of the pub

The De Havilland School of Flying
Page from The Tatler featuring photographs of the De Havilland School of Flying at Hatfield Aerodrome. Pictures show the club buildings from the air, the lounge

Lady Mary Ashley Cooper in Jacobean costume Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936)
Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936), later Lady Alington, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury. Pictured in the costume she wore at the Hatfield Pageant

The Marchioness of Salisburys juvenile fancy dress ball
Childrens fancy dress ball, given by the Marchioness of Salisbury at Hatfield House in 1875. 1875

Hawker Siddeley HS-146 engineering mock-up. at the Hatfield factory circa 1970. Date: circa 1970

de Havilland DH. 82A Tiger Moth G-AHAN
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth G-AHAN (msn 86553, ex PG644), at a PFA rally on Cranfield airfield. 1944: Constructed as a Tiger Moth II by de Havilland at Hatfield

Hawker Siddeley and de Havilland Dragon Rapide
Hawker Siddeley HS.125-1BR/522 G-ATWH (msn 25094) and de Havilland DH.89a Dragon Rapide G-AKIF at the 1968 Hatfield Factory Open Day. Date: 1968

de Havilland Canada DHC. 3 Otter G-ANCM
de Havilland Canada DHC.3 Otter G-ANCM (msn 17) Registered to the de Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd. Hatfield, UK. Delivered 31 July 1953, for operations as the European demonstrator

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

de Havilland DH. 98 Mosquito B Mk. 35
Ex Royal Air Force - de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk.35 TH988 at the de Havilland factory airfield at Hatfield in a static display

Bristol Fighter and Sopwith Pup overfly the Avro 707B, VX790, at the 1953 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Hatfield on 14 June

The first de Havilland DH. 112 Venom prototype - VV612
The de Havilland DH.112 Venom - a British post-war single-engined jet aircraft developed and manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Company

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125 series 3B-RA G-AVDX
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 series 3B-RA G-AVDX (msn 25113) at Hatfield for an open day, before delivery to Air Hanson Limited

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125 series 1B 9J-RAN
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 series 1B 9J-RAN (msn 25067) at hatfield for an open day, before delivery to Zambia for Mines Air Services. Date: circa 1966

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