Southampton Gallery

Railway Air Services Poster

Railway Air Services (RAS) Poster, serving Plymouth, Teignmouth, Cardiff, Birmingham and Liverpool, Cowes (Isle of Wight), Southampton, Bristol and Birmingham, London (Croydon) and Isle of Wight. With a black and white photograph of a De Havilland Dragon 8-Seater twin-engined aeroplane
20th century

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans

LCC-MFB Peckham fire station, Camberwell

Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) and opened in 1867, Peckham fire station was located in Peckham Road opposite Southampton Way SE5. This was the first of three fire stations built on this site. The station closed in 1925 and was demolished to build the second station, which stood there until 1991

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, at Southampton

Reaching Southampton the Queen Mary docked in an enormous King George V graving drydock, ready for its maiden voyage to New York in May 1936. Within thirty minutes of her stem entering the dock she was moored fast, the last 200 feet of her journey was done by man power, engines switched off, twenty men hauled her into position by ropes with 8ft 6 inches to spare on either side of her. The same night, 58, 000, 000 gallons of water was being pumped out of the dock, hundreds of workmen with brooms cleaned and scraped the hull, removing barnacles and covering below the water-line with anti-fouling composition. Date: March 1936

© Mary Evans Picture Library