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Boy Admires SpitfireSpitfire Summer: A little boy wearing shorts and braces admires a Spitfire on the runway at Biggin Hill, Kent, England
Plane SpottersSilhouettes of two plane spotters at London Gatwick Airport, England
Victorian garden plansIsometrical plan of a garden with trellised walks and dolphin fountains 1 and parallelogrammatic garden with circular plats 2
King penguins on a beach, Southern HemisphereKing penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, Patagonia penguin, Aptenodyta patachonica, on a beach, before mountains, Southern Hemisphere
WW1 - Observation balloon in flames - Boyelles, France - 3rd February, 1918
WW2 - Merchant Mine DisposalA pair of photographs which show British WW2 merchant seamen spotting, and then disposing of an enemy sea mine. Date: circa 1942
WW2, Little Bo PeepThis illustration shows Peter the Royal Air Force Pilot, helping Little Bo Peep, by giving her the location of her lost sheep, after spotting them from the skies. Date: circa 1940
Seaside scene, Spotting the Winner, by Howard K Elcock. Showing stylish man, and woman on bench beneath trees, with man driving Rolls Royce along sea front. With pier and pavilion in background
How to Make Roof-Spotting a PleasureWilliam Heath Robinson invention for keeping watch from attack. A warden perched up high above the streets with an umbrella for protection, tea-cup-holder and an easy chair. Date: 1941
BBC staff take turns firewatching on roof, WW2BBC staff take turns firewatching on the roof during WW2 Date: 1941
School boy trainspottersA group of school boys from Reigate Grammar School on a school trip to Nine Elms locomotive depot c.1948 standing on a platform next to a large steam engine. Date: 1948
The Davon patent brass spotting telescope, WW1The Davon patent brass spotting telescope (War Office Broad Arrow), boxed by Broadhurst & Clarkson & Co, 83 Farringdon Road, London
Taking advantage of the situation
A Flettner FL282 Kolibri helicopter in US markings. This helicopter had two intermeshing rotors and was intended to operate from cruisers for spotting work in anti-submarine patrols
WW2 - 90cm A. A. SearchlightWW2 British Home Front - a 90cm Anti Aircraft Searchlight. Date: circa 1940
WW1 - French troops watch a German Taube Aircraft pass over their trench. Advertorial postcard for Dubonnet. Date: 1915
Spotting for Guns / 1906The French army, on the look- out for artillery attacks. Date: 1906
A Kite Balloon car over the Western Front, WW1Two observers in the basket of a kite balloon pictured spotting activity on the ground below
Watanabe E9W1 Model 11 Slim -designed to be stowed aboard the larger Japanese submarines for spotting over the horizon prey 35 built
Wooden Propeller painted with either an RE8 or a BE2E on a spotting and reconnaissance mission leaving English coastline over the North Sea.. J. Willey J
Flettner FL282 Kolibri helicopter in flight. This helicopter had two intermeshing rotors and was intended to operate from cruisers for spotting work in anti-submarine patrols
A line-up of Flettner FL282 Kolibri helicopters. This helicopter had two intermeshing rotors and was intended to operate from cruisers for spotting work in anti-submarine patrols
Taylorcraft Auster IV Aeroplane; Second World War, 1944Illustration showing a Royal Air Force Taylorcraft Auster IV airplane, with an artillery spotter on board, pictured in action over Italy, 1944
German Look out PostA German look-out post, up a tree, spotting enemy artillery
Loch Ness SpottingWatching for the Loch Ness monster through a pair of binoculars
Emile Aubrun spotting submarines from his aeroplaneThe French aviator Emile Aubrun (1881-1967) at Cherbourg demonstrates that submarines under water can be detected from aircraft flying at a height of 500 metres