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Captain Albert Ball VC DSO (2 bars) MCCaptain Albert Ball VC DSO** MC
Amy Johnson with her De Havilland Gipsy Moth JasonAmy Johnson in Australia, 1930. She was one of the first women pilots to make headline news and held many records
Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen
North American Harvard IIB (KF729) being flown by His Royal Highness Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1953
Louis Bleriot in his Bleriot XI starting his cross channel flight, 1909On 25 July 1909 Frenchman Louis Bleriot flew from Les Baraques in France to Dover in England, becoming the first man to fly an aeroplane across the English Channel
Willy Coppens de Houthulst, " The Balloon King"
Alex Henshaw in the cockpit of a SpitfireAlex Henshaw began his flying career winning air races. In 1939 he flew solo from England to South Africa and back, breaking several records as he did so
Diners on the Southern RailwayThe Steward checks the ladys order in a Southern Railway dining car
Telephone enquiry exchange at London Bridge Station, 1934An operator providing assistance to a caller at London Bridge Station
Brighton Line electric coaches, 15 February 1933A waiter serving tea in a Pullman carriage
Durnsford Road BridgeChildren on Durnsford Road Bridge watching a three-car suburban electric train of the Southern Railway pass underneath
Le Capitaine Georges Guynemer
Lorimer, Feeny and Dewdney of 87 SquadronPilot Officer R L Lorimer, Flying Officer G H J Feeny and Sergeant Thomas Dewdney of 87 Squadron, standing in front of a Gloster Gladiator at RAF Debden, 1938
Pilots of 1 Squadron RAFPilots of 1 Squadron, including Wing Commander C W Hill, Flight Lieutenant E M Donaldson, Flying Officer H E C Boxer and Pilot Officer P P Hanks, RAF Tangmere, 1937
James Doolittle on the float of his Curtiss R3C racer, 1925Lieutenant General James H Doolittle is most famous for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942 but had previously won the Schneider Trophy for the USA in 1925
Jim Mollison was a record breaking pilot. He married Amy Johnson in 1932 and they were nicknamed the flying sweethearts. Their rivalry
Carriage cleaning, Wimbledon Park 1926Southern Railway employees cleaning carriages at night at Wimbledon Park
Three forms of travelA rambler pauses while she is overtaken by a motorist in an Austin Six saloon and a Southern Railway express train on the embankment
Children watching the Atlantic Coast Express. This is a composite photograph
Rev Barham in Mardale ChurchRev Frederick H. J. Barham in Mardale Church
Harvesting Norfolk reed for use in thatching
A sheep farm in the North of England, typical of many seen in parts of Yorkshire and the Lake District
Airmen of Long Range Development Unit, with map, Upper Heyford, 1938Airmen of the Long Range Development Unit, with map, RAF Upper Heyford, 1938
Pullman passengersPassengers boarding Southern Railway Pullman carriages at Victoria Station
Waiting to set offA mother anxiously hangs on to her son while he looks out of the carriage window
Lord Anson at WimbledonThe Mayor and Mayoress of Wimbledon on the footplate of Southern Railway Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0 locomotive Lord Anson with its designer Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (in bowler hat) close by
Winstons Churchill 1925Sir Winston Spencer Churchill when Chancellor of the Exchequer. The location is not recorded
Lieutenant W. B. Rhodes-Moorhouse VCLieutenant William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse VC
Dublin Post Office after the Easter Uprising, 1916
Hunting with hounds, possibly the Rockwood harriers of West Yorkshire, 1930s
Romany children making clothes pegs, the caravan and horses in the background
Tulip picking in Lincolnshire
Jean Pierre BlanchardJean-Pierre Blanchard the first man to cross the English Channel by balloon on 7 January 1785, with Dr John Jeffries as passenger
Breakfast on a Southern Railway service in the 1930s
Ferry construction for the Southern Railway, Tyneside February 1934The construction of a new ferry for the Southern Railway at a shipyard on the River Tyne
