Interwar Collection

Supermarine Spitfire I aircraft of 65 Squadron RAF, Hornchurch, 1939

HMS Ajax, 1936
Leander Class Cruiser HMS Ajax at Alexandria, 1936

Fairey Swordfish I of 820 Squadron over HMS Ark Royal, 1939

Amy Johnson with her De Havilland Gipsy Moth Jason
Amy Johnson in Australia, 1930. She was one of the first women pilots to make headline news and held many records

Summer Comes Soonest In The South
The famous photograph of a little boy talking to the locomotive crew, Waterloo Station 1923, used in Southern Railway's advertising campaign

HMS Repulse
Renown Class battleship HMS Repulse

HMS Nelson
Nelson Class Battleship HMS Nelson

Racing Yachts
J Class yacht Shamrock V leads Britannia and Velsheda, Cowes Regatta 1933

Vickers Valentia of 216 Sqn RAF
Vickers Valentia of 216 Squadron in flight over the Pyramids at Giza, 1936

Supermarine Spitfire I (K9787) in flight from Eastleigh, 1938

The Mosta Dome, Malta 1935
Aerial view of the Rotunda of St Marija Assunta, Mosta, Malta, 1935

Fury I aircraft of 1 Squadron
Hawker Fury I aircraft of 1 Squadron RAF rehearsing for a display at Zurich, 1937

Airspeed Oxford prototype in flight, RAF Display, Hendon, 1937

HMS Devonshire, 1936
County Class Cruiser HMS Devonshire in the Mediterranean, 1936

HMS Valiant, March 1931
Queen Elizabeth Class battleship HMS Valiant at Gibraltar, March 1931, with Fairey IIIF on stern catapult

Wellington I aircraft of 9 Squadron
Vickers Wellington I aircraft (L4288 KA-ZA, L4320 KA-B, and others) of 9 Squadron RAF in flight, Stradishall, 1939

Hawker Hurricane I aircraft of 111 Sqn RAF
Hawker Hurricane I aircraft of 111 Squadron, 1938

Tiger Moth I aircraft of the Central Flying School
De Havilland Tiger Moth I aircraft of the CFS rehearsing for RAF Display at Wittering, 13 June 1932

HMS Egret
Egret Class sloop HMS Egret

HMS Barham, 1937
Queen Elizabeth Class battleship HMS Barham under way

HMS Glorious, 1936
HMS Glorious in the Mediterranean, with Fairey IIIF aircraft on deck, 1936

Vosper motor torpedo boat, Portsmouth 1939
Vosper 70 MTB 22 type at speed

Hop picking in Kent
Families working together to pick hops in the Kent countryside

Hawker Fury I aircraft of 1 Squadron, RAF Tangmere 1937

Barrage Balloons, Cardington, 1938

Fairey Battle I of 63 Squadron RAF, Upwood, 1938

Supermarine S. 5
R J Mitchell designed the Supermarine S.5 Seaplane which won the 1927 Schneider Trophy

Gloster Gladiator I aircraft of 605 Squadron RAF, Manston, 14 August 1939

Westland Lysander I (L4723) of 208 Squadron Royal Air Force picking up a message, Heliopolis, 1939

Supermarine Southampton II aircraft of 201 Squadron, RAF, over the Isle of Wight, 1930

Hawker Hart of 6 Sqn RAF
Hawker Hart of 6 Squadron flying over Bethlehem, 1936

Handley Page Heyford IA of 10 Sqn
Handley Page Heyford IA of 10 Squadron flying from RAF Catfoss, 1935

Seaplane Tender
37.5 Seaplane Tender Mk.I (229) of the Royal Air Force, Gosport 1938

Lockheed 14 Electra of British Airways used by Neville Chamberlain to fly to Munich to see Adolph Hitler, 1938

Short C-Class flying boat VH-ABD of Qantas
Short S.23 C-Class (VH-ABD " CORIO" ) of Qantas Empire Airways, in flight, Basrah, 1939

Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054
Joseph " Mutt" Summers at the controls of the Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054, 1936

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley in flight, 1937

Hawker Osprey III of 447 Flt Fa
Hawker Osprey III (K3642 067) of 447 Flight in flight over Alexandria harbour, 1936

HMS Gallant and HMS Sussex, Gibraltar 1938
G Class destroyer HMS Gallant alongside County Class cruiser HMS Sussex

HMS Courageous, 1932
HMS Courageous at Gibraltar, 1932

Cars and motorcycles arriving on board the ferry at Fishbourne, 1932
Vehicles boarding the Southern Railway ferry at Fisbourne for the crossing from the Isle of Wight back to Portsmouth

Bricklayers Arms Goods Station, 5 January 1932
Construction work under way at the new Bricklayers Arms Goods Station

Henri Mignet
Monsieur Henri Mignet with his glider, the Mignet HM.5, while launching, 1923

The Dawn Patrol
Hawker Fury aircraft over Southend. This photograph is in the style of Alfred Buckham

Wiley Post with the Lockheed Vega Winnie May

Juan de la Cierva with an Avro Rota
Juan de la Cierva was a pioneer of autogiros which were the first successful rotary-winged aircraft. They are still manufactured today

Fokker Trimotor Southern Cross of Charles Kingsford-Smith
Anthony Fokker designed the Trimotor used by Charles Kingsford-Smith to break records

De Havilland Gipsy Moth of Jean Batten
Jean Batten had a short but spectacular career between 1934 and 1937, becoming the first person to hold the record for solo flights between Australia and England in both directions

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