May Collection

Norton. Isle of Man TT
500cc Norton racing at the Isle of Man TT, an annual motorcycle event run on the Isle of Man in May/June of most years since 1907. It regarded as one of the most dangerous racing events in the world

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 21 April 1918), the Red Baron. He wears the Pour le Me

Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed Vega 5b Old Bessie
Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed Vega 5b, Old Bessie, after her arrival at Culmore, near Londonderry. 21 May 1932. Date: 1932

British Airways Concorde G-BOAC takes-off - Heathrow
British Airways Concorde, G-BOAC, takes-off from London Heathrow Airport at 13.01 hours on 24 May 1976 on its first commercial flight to the US. Date: 1976

de Havilland DH. 112 Sea Venom F. A. W. 21 XA539
de Havilland DH.112 Sea Venom F.A.W.21 XA539, flying with the Aero Flight from RAE Bedford. First flown on 21 May 1954, delivered on 03 June 1954

Church During Thunderstorm with Lightning, Mere, Wiltshire
Church During Thunderstorm with Lightning, Mere, Warminster, near Gillingham, Wiltshire, England. Photograph taken 9.40pm, May 13th Date: 1906

Great Eastern Railways Locomotive works at Stratford
A view along the north side of the Great Eastern Railway?s Locomotive works at Stratford (East London) May 1864 with William Henry Maw, then Head of the Drawing office

Suffragette Lilian Lenton in Court 1913
A newspaper placard dated Wednesday, June 11, 1913, with the headline, Miss. Lentons Reappearance. Lilian Lenton (1891-1972)

Croydon Airport - de Havilland DH. 84 Dragon G-ACIU
de Havilland DH.84 Dragon G-ACIU (msn 3041) of Surrey Flying Services Ltd. approaching to land at Croydon Airport. First registered on 25.07.33 was previously owned by Marmaduke Furness (Lord Furness)

JOAN OF ARC BURNED
JOAN OF ARC Burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431. Frere Isambard holds up a cross; Martin Ladvenu offers prayers Date: 1412? - 1431

Christmas postcard image of The Mayflower under full sail crossing the Atlantic in 1620. The card bears a Christmas message of goodwill quoting May the right glad Christmastide come to ye laden with

Lady with a portative organ
Lady in 18th century costume playing a portative organ or organetto. Artist: May Bowley Date: 1905

Douglas DC-3 G-AGYZ Skyways of London Lympne 1964
Douglas DC-3 G-AGYZ of Skyways of London at Lympne on 20 May 1964 Date: 1964

Boeing 707-436 G-APFE BOAC LAP 1960
Boeing 707-436 G-APFE of BOAC at LAP on 16 May 1960 Date: 1960

Battle of Jutland
A scene depicting an action during the Battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916. William Lionel Wyllie, Ra Ri Re, (1851-1931)

Figure 25 from The Horten tailless aircraft Item No25 File
Figure 25 from The Horten tailless aircraft, Item No25, File No XXIII-6, Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, May 1945. Date: 1945

Naval Cadets. Admiral Sir Gerald Vaughan Gladstone (1901-1978). Gladstone Joined Royal Naval College, Osborne, May 1915 And Then Went To Dartmouth Naval College In January 1917

Dassault Falcon 20C N622R (msn 15), of Winrock Farms, between May 1966 and September 1968. Date: circa 1967

Arsenal & Newcastle. Bateup ready to save for the Arsenal
Slide showing a photograph from a football match with the words: Arsenal & Newcastle. Bateup ready to save for the Arsenal. Edwin (Teddy) Bateup (16 May 1881 29 April 1939). Part of Box 366

A Memorial Notice of Julian Gould, D Company, 16th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. k.i.a. 30th May 1917 near Monchy-le-Preux aged 25 years. This book was privately printed by his father, Frederick J

Curtiss Hawk 75 fuselage interior looking rear from the baggage compartment. 9 May 1938. Date: 1938

Augustus H. Bishop with elephant tusks, May 1912
Augustus Bishop arrived at the Museum in 1904, aged 23, after three years training as a taxidermist

Major H G Brackley being handed the de Havilland logbooks
Major H.G. Brackley being handed the logbooks of de Havilland DH84 Dragon, G-ACPX, by Hugh Blackman in May 1934. Date: 1934

A tent at Heathrow Airport in May 1946. Date: 1946

Prince George, Duke of Kent - Group Captain in the RAF
Prince George, Duke of Kent, right, shortly after becoming a Group Captain in the RAF with Gp Capt Ellwood, 27 May 1940. Date: 1940

May Lilian Levey music hall male impersonator
May Lilian Levey male impersonator, dancer, pantomime principal boy. Here dressed in top hat and tails with cane. Called herself the ?premier male character comedienne?

McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle 71-0291 (msn 0012/B002), at the 1980 SBAC Farnborough Airshow on 6 September 1980. Built as the second TF-15A

Avro Lancaster ASR. VII G-ASXX
Avro Lancaster ASR.VII G-ASXX (ex NX611, ex Aeronavale), at the Biggin Hill Air Fair in May 1965, shortly after arriving in the UK from Tahiti

Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine known as the Emir Abdelkader
Vintage 19th century photograph: Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 - 26 May 1883; Arabic: Ï╣Ï¿Ï» Ϻ┘ä┘éϺϻÏ▒ ϺϿ┘å...Ï¡┘è┘è Ϻ┘äÏ»┘è┘åÔÇÄ ╩┐Abd al-Q─üdir ibn Muß©Ñy al-d─½n)

May Bowley Birds
Bluebirds on a branch laden with blossom. Artist: May Bowley. Date: 1920

Field Gun outside the TJaegershof Restaurant
The restaurant has a small but interesting museum which is concerned with the activities nearby, including the St Sixtus Abbey

Victims of the First Gas Attack Memorial, Steenstraat
This 15 metres high Cross of Reconciliation, commemorates the victims of the first gas attack of the war made by the Germans on 22 April 1915

May apple, mandrake or wild lemon, Podophyllum peltatum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Anna May Wong on the cover of the British film magazine Picturegoer. Anna May Wong (1905-1961) was the most famous Chinese-American star of the golden age of cinema

MUSSOLINI ON MOTORBIKE
Mussolini is warmly applauded when he leads a rally at Rome driving his own motorcycle Date: May 1933

Bell UH-1B Iriquois 38456
United States Army ??? Bell UH-1B-BF Iroquois 38456 (msn ), at RAF Wethersfield, on 8 May 1964. Date: 1964

Smith DSA-1 Miniplane N90P (msn FWS-1). (DSA - Darn Small Airplane) Built in 1956 and registration cancelled on 17 May 2013. Date: circa 1970

Downer Bellanca 14-13-3 Cruisair Senior HB-DUN (msn 1637), circa 1961. The model designation is based on the technical data of the machine. The number 14 means that the wing area is 14 square feet

Douglas AD-4W Skyraider / Skyraider AEW. 1 G-31-12
Douglas AD-4W Skyraider / Skyraider AEW.1 G-31-12 (msn 7850, ex USN 126867, ex RN WV181), seen at RNAY Abbotsinch, circa May 1963 with B-class registration

Convair F-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507
Convair NF-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507 (msn 8-27-01) at NASA Lewis Research Center, Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH. registered as NASA 607 Built April 1958

North American P-51C-10-NT Mustang N1202 Houstonian (msn 111-29080, formerly 44-10947), with race number 60. One of three owned by Oil Tycoon Glenn McArthy

Miles M. 77 Sparrowjet G-ADNL
Miles M.77 Sparrowjet G-ADNL at Shoreham Airport. G-ADNL had a moderately successful racing career, winning the SBAC Challenge Cup at Yeadon on 21 May 1956

Start of the riot in Cheapside
Artistic impression of Evil May Day, the name of a riot which took place in 1517 as a protest against foreigners living in London. Apprentices attacked foreign residents

United States Army Air Force Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain 41-18608 (MSN 4769) to USaF 25 October 1942, bailed to the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE), Boscombe Down

Nord 1002 Pingouin II G-ASTG (msn 183), previously F-BGKI, built in 1945 by Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord (SNCAN)

S. F. Cody, right, as a ?strike-breaker?, arrived at Bro?
S.F. Cody, right, as a ?strike-breaker?, arrived at Brooklands from Aldershot, drinking the health of the aviators on strike circa 1911

?Birdman? Clem Sohn, 1910-1937, at Hanworth early in May 1936. Date: 1936

Boulton Paul Chief Test Pilot, A. E. Gunn, with his assistant
The newly-appointed Boulton Paul Chief Test Pilot, A.E. Gunn, right, with his assistant Lt R. Mancus alongside a Boulton Paul Balliol, May 1949. Date: 1949

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