Left Collection (page 17)

Flt Lt W. Murray, left, and John S. Sproule after their?
Flt Lt W. Murray, left, and John S. Sproule after their world record duration flight (for two-seat gliders) at Dunstable, Beds, of 22hrs 13mins in 1938. Date: 1938

Dr R. M. Campbell, CMG, Deputy High Commisioner for New ?
Dr R.M. Campbell, CMG, Deputy High Commisioner for New Zealand, left, congratulates Sir Bennett Melvill Jones, CBE, HonFRAeS, 1887-1975

From left: Frederick Ronald Midgley (1907-1985), Chief ?
From left: Frederick Ronald Midgley (1907-1985), Chief Test Pilot, Sqn Ldr Eric George Franklin OBE, DFC, AFC, Test Pilot and Barratt, Test Observer, in the Armstrong Whitworth AW52G, RG324

Major Baden-Powell and James Gordon Bennett Jr
Major Baden-Powell, left, and James Gordon Bennett Jr (1841-1918), centre

Boeing Airplane Company engineers Gary Graham, left, an?
Boeing Airplane Company engineers Gary Graham, left, and Peter Downey examined segments of a model of a manned orbital research station which Boeing made public for the first time on 3 September

President John F. Kennedy presents the National Aeronau?
President John F. Kennedy presents the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Service Medal to Commander Alan Shepard Jr, left

President John F. Kennedy has a National Aeronautics an?
President John F. Kennedy has a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Service Medal returned to him which he dropped while presenting the award to Commander Alan Shepard Jr, left

President John F. Kennedy stoops to retrieve the Nation?
President John F. Kennedy stoops to retrieve the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Service Medal which he dropped while presenting the award to Commander Alan Shepard Jr, left

Z. A. Arapova, left, a senior laboratory assistant in a ?
Z.A. Arapova, left, a senior laboratory assistant in a Russian astronautical laboratory, fastens registration contacts on cosmonaut A

Part of the Royal Enclosure at the 1927 Hendon Air Disp?
Part of the Royal Enclosure at the 1927 Hendon Air Display. Queen Mary, second left; King George V, fourth left; ACM Sir Hugh Trenchard, fifth left and Sir Samual Hoare, Secretary of State for Air

Curtiss-Wright propeller blade with wider hollow steel ?
Curtiss-Wright propeller blade with wider hollow steel blades, left, now being fitted onto the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, is compared with the previous blade used on the aircraft

Henry Farman, 1874-1958, left, and Ernest Archdeacon in?
Henry Farman, 1874-1958, left, and Ernest Archdeacon in the Voisin-Farman Ibis on 30 May 1908 at Ghent, Belgium. A flight of 1, 242m was made with Archdeacon as passenger. Date: 1908

Robert Herbert Whitby in cockpit of Bristol Mk 3A Sycamore
Robert Herbert Whitby, 1917-2015, left, in the cockpit of Bristol Mk 3A Sycamore, G-AMWG, RMA Sir Gawain, of BEA

From left: C. C. Walker, Geoffrey de Havilland and Thom(?)
From left: C.C. Walker, Geoffrey de Havilland and Thom(?)

Flight Lieutenant W. S. Coates and J. A. Rogers - test pilots
From left: Flt Lt W.S. Coates and J.A. Rogers, test pilots at General Aircraft Ltd

Sqn Ldr Albert Kenneth Cook DFC, Avro test pilot, left, ?
Sqn Ldr Albert Kenneth Cook DFC, Avro test pilot, left, and Sqn Ldr Hedley George Hazelden DFC*, Handley Page test pilot, at the 1947 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Radlett on 14

Sgt W. H. Shiers, AFM; Lt Sir Keith M. Smith, KBE and others
From left: Sgt W.H. Shiers, AFM; Lt Sir Keith M. Smith, KBE; Capt Sir Ross Smith, MC, DFC, AFC; and Sgt J.M. Bennett, MSM, AFM

The Gemini, left, and Mercury spacecraft compared

Rifle, Self-Loading, Walther, 7. 92 Mm Gewehr 43
Gewehr Model 43 7. 92 mm self-loading rifle, 1943-1945 (c); used by the German Army in World War Two; gas operated and air cooled; cocking handle on left hand side of the rifle; crude manufacture

Man driving a Horse and cart with black sacks on a street in
Man driving a donkey with cart carrying black sacks on a street in Cairo. The man is dressed in black traditional Arab work wear, facing the camera

Bagh-nakh
Bagh Nakh, Tigers Claw. Two brass rings (for the fingers) attached to a brass plate with four steel claws. For the left hand. Obtained from a dacoit in Belgaum District, india, 1945

Railway Station as abandoned by the Turks - Aleppo, Syria
Railway Station as abandoned by the remnants of the Ottoman Empires Yildirim Army Groups (commanded by Mustafa Kemal Pasha - Ataturk) following the Battle of Aleppo, fought on 25th October 1918

Castledawson, Co. Derry - a rural village street with church on the left and horse vehicle in the middle of the road. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Castledawson)

The Park Preston - fountain in centre, large Turreted building on left, houses and parkland. Part of Box 12 Boswell collection. Counties of England. Date: circa 1900

Jean Fouquet (1420-1481). Melun Diptych, 1452. Gemaldegaleri
Renaissance Art. France. Jean Fouquet (1420-1481). French painter. Melun Diptych, oil painting about 1452 by order of Etienne Chevalier. Left wing depicting Etienne Chevalier with his patron St

London Underground Opened 1863
Dignitaries taking a ride on the first train on the Metropolitan Railway, including William Gladstone and his wife (at the front of the carriage on the left). Date: 1863

Palmistry - Belot
Schematic representation of the left hand, as perceived by Jean BELOT, Cure de Mil-Monts, French chiromancer and practitioner of other magical and divinatory arts Date: 1611

Fanny and Dora Watson, Kent / 178
Fanny (right) and Dora (left) Watson. Taken at the Houghton photographic studio. The Watson Fanny Watson is wearing three War Service Bar stripes on her left arm

Middle Ages in Spain. Market scene
Market scene in the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula. From left to right, dealer Muslim, Christian and Hebrew. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Fresh Pine-tree Stump - stacked pine logs left on a logging site for transportation - forest (Pinus sylvestris ). near Ekaterinburg - Middle Ural Mountains - Russia

Northern red-backed vole - feeds on Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica Mayr) seeds - a cone on the left (Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas)

Binoculars in leather case by Lemaire, Paris - WWI era
Binoculars in leather case. Manufactured by Lemaire, Paris, bearing the War Office Issue Broad Arrow on the left lens, together with the name of W. H. Whisson, dated 1916. Firearms & Equipment

Princess Marys Christmas 1914 tin + two packs of cigarettes
Princess Marys Christmas 1914 tin with two packets of cigarettes, both are opened and one has one cigarette left ! Together with Princess Marys Christmas card and photo. All original items

Cinderella left at home to do household chores. Date: circa 1925

Scenes at the Kent Waterworks, 1876
Engraving showing a series of scenes at the Kent Waterworks, near London, in 1876. The images show (clockwise from top left)

From left: Philip Wills, Constance Babington-Smith and P?
From left: Philip Wills, Constance Babington-Smith and Philip Lucas, at the 94th Anniversary Luncheon at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on 12 January 1960

Woman from the Oran Province, Algeria
Woman from the Tafraoui region in the south of the Oran Province in north western Algeria. Date: 1906

Miss Maud Allan as Salome
Miss Maud Allan (1873-1956) actress, dancer and choreographer in the role of Salome - performing at the Varietes, Paris. She designed and often sewed her own costumes, which were creative

Cpt Stanley Key with Cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagar
Capt Stanley Key, left, with Cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, 1934-1968, in the cockpit of Vickers Viscount 806, G-AOYN, Sir Isaac Newton, of BEA after a flight from London to Manchester

Werner Molders, Hermann Goering and Adolf Galland
From left: Werner Mrs, Hermann Gg and Adolf Galland

Brian Trubshaw (left) BAC Concorde chief test pilot
Brian Trubshaw (left), BAC Concorde chief test pilot and John Cochrane, deputy chief test pilot, on the flightdeck of Concorde 002 preparing for its maiden flight on 9 April 1969. Date: 1969

Francis McClean (left in balloon basket) and Griffith Brewer in the balloon Britannia

English Electric Canberra B(I)8 modified to carry Ferranti Laser Ranger and Marked Target Seeker. From left: Bill Roberts, flight test observer; Len Houston

Titanus giganteus (left), Dynastes hercules (right)
The South American longhorn beetle (left) at 160 mm long and the hercules beetle (right) 170 mm long. Two of the largest beetles in the world

Monachus tropicalis, Caribbean monk seal
A drawing of the lateral view of Phocid skeleton. Figure 7 from Seals of the World by Judith E. King. Published by The British Museum of Natural History, 1964

BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans (1485-1544). High Altar of Freiburg M�. 1512-1516. GERMANY. Freiburg im Breisgau. M� Cathedral

Wycombe Union Workhouse, Saunderton, Buckinghamshire
The Wycombe Union workhouse at Saunderton during its use as a World War One military hospital. Several men in uniform stand at the left of the entrance

Barony Hospital, Nantwich
Aerial view of the Barony Hospital, Nantwich, formerly the Nantwich Union workhouse. The original workhouse block is at the upper centre

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