Readiness Collection

Digging Golf Bunker
Men busy preparing the 8th bunker at Princes golf course, Sandwich, Kent, in readiness for the Open Championship in June

WW2 - R. A. F. Ground Crew Engine Tuning
A photograph of a British WW2 Royal Air Force ground crew tuning the engine of a bomber plane in readiness for a night raid. Date: circa 1940s

United States Air Force - Boeing NKC-135E Stratotanker 55-3135 (MSN 17251), an instrumented tanker during refuelling trials with an F-16, at Edwards Air Force Base on 3 April 2018

An RAF ground crew service a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt at Kemajoran Airfield, Batavia, in readiness for operations against the Indonesians in Sourebaya

Nicolas Ii / Beurre 1908
NIKOLAY ALEKSANDROVICH TSAR NICOLAS II (1894-1917) Proclaiming his readiness for anything - and carrying all kinds of weapons Date: 1908

Finishers in front of hat factory in readiness for a works outing in August 1907. A fine depiction of Edwardian working men in their best clothes, even down to buttonholes! Date: 1907

Winter work in the Royal Navy by G. H. Davis
Winter work in the Royal Navy: taking a disabled submarine in tow. Showing a submarine in the foreground, hailing the parent ship. 1910

British anti-aircraft unit, WWII
An anti-aircraft unit in absolute readiness for the call to fire at any moment in November 1939. Date: 1939

NFS (London Region) fire brigade display at Lambeth, WW2
During 1942 and 1943, 23 air raids occurred over the London Region, but they were light in character. The firefighters of the NFS needed to be kept in a state of constant readiness

Bending the Plates for the Cylinders of the Rotary Printing-

Negombo, Sri Lanka, 1671
The Dutch fort at Negombo; like all Dutch establishments on the island, it is heavily fortified in readiness for attack from those residents who resent their presence

Womens Right to Serve
Part of a mass demonstration in London expressing the readiness of women to take part in the war effort

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