Category Archives: Museum
Gun Deck
Taken on board H M S Victory showing the sceen of a gun deck in action during the Battle of Trafalgar October1805 against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the Napoleonic wars.
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Southern 847
Taken at the Bluebell Line of one of the many steam engines that run on the line. The Line operate between Sheffield Park in East Sussex and East Grinstead West Sussex
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Boat Builders
Taken at Portsmouth Dock Yard
Spitfire
De Havilland Sea Vixen
The Royal Navy’s principal carrier borne fighter of the 1960s.
New place to park
The Lady Of Shalott 1888
In Tennyson’s poem, the eponymous lady is cursed for gazing directly upon Sir Lancelot. She floats downstream to her death. A painting by John William Waterhouse.
HMS Belfast
One Of The Crew
One of the crew climbing aboard a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress. The B17 was primarily employed by United States Army Air Force in daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War 2 against Germany’s industrial and military targets. The United States Eighth Air Force was based at many Airfields in Central and Southern England.
