British flying ace, Lt Alan Jerrard

30 Mar 1918, British flying ace, Lt Alan Jerrard, engaged in heroic combat, then shot down & taken captive in Italy. His Sopwith Camel had 163 bullet holes! Awarded Victoria Cross. Educated at oundle school & unibirmingham. Enlisted S Staffordshire Regt then into RFC. Died 1968.

 

Marseille to Alexandria carrying horse fodder, British SS Minneapolis was torpedoed by U-35, 195 miles from Malta. 167 rescued, 12 died.

 23 March 1916, while going from Marseille to Alexandria carrying horse fodder, British SS Minneapolis was torpedoed by U-35, 195 miles from Malta. 167 rescued, 12 died. Ship remained afloat. Attempt made to tow her to Malta but she sank on 25 March. Pre WW1 made 155 Atlantic trips.

Reading Room and Reference Library at the Central Lending Library, Birmingham.

The Reading Room and Reference Library at the Central Lending Library, Birmingham. This grand building was demolished in 1974

Augustus Waller was demonstrating his capillary electrometer to the Royal Society in London in 1887.

Augustus Waller was demonstrating his capillary electrometer to the Royal Society in London in 1887. To the enormous relief of the assembled luminaries, his dog Jimmy, who had one front and one back paw immersed in a saline solution containing the electrodes, was not electrocuted.

England Cricketer David Gower in 1980

NORTHERN BOULEVARD, LOOKING EAST TOWARD 82nd STREET, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.

The main shopping district of Jackson Heights. The apartment house at the right, erected in 1914, was the first garden-apartment building built by the Queensboro Corporation. The Boulevard Theater, the first theater in Jackson Heights, is visible just ahead. (Photo by Frederick J. Weber; The Queens Borough Public Library.)

NORTHERN BOULEVARD, LOOKING EAST TOWARD 82nd STREET, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.

In 1922, Chesil Beach of Portland England

View of Chesil Beach in 1935 at Portland Dorset in England

Vintage Memories of United States

An elephant drinks out of a bottle at the Benson's Wild Animal Farm in New Hampshire, which opened in 1926

All 169 passengers were onboard waiting for take-off and looking excited for one of the Dornier Do-x's early flights in this shot from October 21, 1929

A view of the controls in the Dornier Do-X cockpit shows the complicated nature of making this plane fly in 1929

A public information notice warning about the drought, erected by the road in the Bridport area of Dorset in September 1976

A completed Dornier Do-X flying boat sat fully assembled in hangar of the aircraft plant in Altenrhein, Switzerland, a few days before its maiden voyage

A chief navigator was in-charge of steering the direction of the boat plane and can be seen examining a physical map of the world in the navigation cabin in 1930

An elephant drinks out of a bottle at the Benson's Wild Animal Farm in New Hampshire, which opened in 1926

Aer Lingus added this de Havilland DH86 Express in 1936. It was used to fly passengers from Baldonnel to London Croydon

A tiger leaps between two podiums in its cage. Early expansion work during 1932-33 saw the opening of a Wild Animal Circus

A more familiar modern view is the tarmac packed with aircraft. Pictured here is Terminal 5 which opened in 2008 and is used exclusively by BA and now IAG (Iberia

A monkey is pictured in chains at the animal farm. Today the public can walk around the abandoned animal cages, as the area has been opened as a recreational park