Leading Gallery

Stylish Horse Race by Victor Hicks

A stylised illustration showing an elegant lady leading a racehorse in the paddock. The illustration is accompanied by the following poem; Airs and graces, heirs and races On a course by sunshine lit; And when Pippa proudly passes, With what joy we raise our glasses To our winning favourite

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HMS Helmsdale, North Atlantic, 1944

Painting showing HMS Helmsdale, a River class Frigate of the Royal Navy, on convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic, 1944. Helmsdale is shown flying the signal V J - telling the convoy to Keep station and, in the left background, the leading ship of the convoy is seen acknowledging the message

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Drivers & personalities in the Five Hundred Miles Race, 1929

Five of the leading lights in the great Five Hundred Miles Race which took place at Brooklands on 12 October 1929. At the top is Mr Kaye Don who drove a supercharged Sunbeam, Earl Howe (top right), at the wheel of a supercharged Lea-Francis, Captain Woolf Barnato in a Bentley, Mr R. F. Oats (bottom right) at the wheel of an O.M. and at the bottom left, Captain Malcolm Campbell of Blue Bird fame, who sponsored the race. Date: 1929

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