Black And White Photographs Of The East Riding Of Yorkshire

AWM caption : Group portrait of the crew of "K" for Kitty, 458 Squadron RAAF after a raid. Identified, left to right: 404455 Sergeant (Sgt) James Howard "Rupe" Holmes, captain of Brisbane, Qld 404611 Sgt Sven More

AWM caption : A flight crew from 458 Squadron RAAF, in front of Wellington aircraft `R for Robert'. Left to right: Sergeant (Sgt) Stewart Ricketts (Air Gunner) (probably 402040 Carlyle Raymond Stuart Ricketts) More

AWM caption : Yorkshire, England. C. 1942-02. Group portrait of combined crews of Wellington aircraft of No. 458 Squadron RAAF at an RAF station, Holme-on-Spalding Moor. Left to right: 404044 Sergeant (Sgt) J More

AWM caption : Group portrait of the crew of Wellington aircraft "K for Kitty" of No. 458 Squadron RAAF at an RAF station, Holme-on-Spalding Moor. Left to right: 1283720 Sergeant (Sgt) K. A. Cousins, RAF, wirel More

Yorkshire, England. C. 1942-02. Group portrait of the crew of Wellington aircraft "N for Nuts" of No. 458 Squadron RAAF at an RAF station, Holme-on-Spalding Moor. Left to right: 1359874 Sergeant (Sgt) C. C. Ch More

AWM caption : Yorkshire, England. C. 1942-02. Group portrait of the crew of Wellington aircraft "X for X-Ray" of No. 458 Squadron RAAF at an RAF station, Holme-on-Spalding Moor. Left to right: Pilot Officer ( More

AWM caption : BREIGHTON, ENGLAND. POST 1942-08. A HANDLEY-PAGE HALIFAX BOMBER AIRCRAFT (CODED UV-G) FROM 460 SQUADRON, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE, WITH CREW. FLIGHT SERGEANT J.A. SAINT SMITH IS SEATED FRONT, SE More

AWM caption : Yorkshire, England. 1944-01-17. The crew of a Halifax aircraft of No. 466 Squadron RAAF, at RAF Station Leconfield. They were formerly a Wellington aircraft crew. Left to right: 420171 Flight Ser More

AWM caption : Yorkshire, England. C. 1945-03. The crest on a Halifax bomber aircraft of No. 466 Squadron RAAF, RAF Station Driffield, reads "Kelly's Gang Rides Again!".

Yorkshire, England. C. 1942-02. Group portrait of some of the members of Wellington aircraft "T for Tommy" of No. 458 Squadron RAAF based at an RAF station, Holme-on-Spalding Moor. Left to right: 404425 Sergean More

AWM caption : 409383 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Donald Frank Constable (centre), RAAF, a pilot with 78 Squadron RAF, and two unidentified aircrew pose on the badly damaged wing of a Halifax bomber. Flt Lt Const More

A kite balloon tethered to the balloon barge NORMAN WADE on the River Humber, at No. 17 Balloon Centre at Sutton-on-Hull in Yorkshire, January 1943. A kite balloon tethered to the balloon barge NORMAN WADE on t More

A sergeant on flying control duty reports the landing of a Halifax Mk V of No. 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit at Holme-on-Spalding Moor, 21 October 1943. A sergeant on flying control duty reports in as a Halifax V More

Aerial Views in the United Kingdom, 1941-1942. No. 17 Balloon Centre, Sutton-on-Hull, Hull, Yorkshire, from the north-west.

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Handley Page Hp.57 Halifax. Halifax B Mark V Series 1 (Special), EB151 ‘OO-R’, of No. 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit based at Rufforth, Yorkshire, getting airborne from Ho More

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945-armstrong Whitworth Aw.38 Whitley Two Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark Vs, N1373 'KN-J' and N1347 'KN-E', of No. 77 Squadron RAF, overfly Driffield, Yorkshire, on retur More

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1943 Handley-Page Halifax 'G for George', an aircraft bought for the Royal Air Force by the people of Ceylon, with its typically mixed Bomber Command crew of British, Canadians, More

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk Vs of No. 102 Squadron RAF being prepared for a leaflet-dropping sortie at Driffield, Yorkshire, 7 March 1940. Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark Vs of No. 102 Squadron RAF being pr More

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command This crashed Halifax III at Full Sutton in early January 1945 was the centrepiece of a posed sequence illustrating the work of WAAF nursing orderlies. Corporal Dennett More

Hmt Sapper Underway on the Humber on completion. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pilots of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF with one of their Hawker Hurricanes, October 1940. A group of pilots of No 303 Polish Fighter Squadron RAF walking toward the camera from a Hawker Hurricane after, purpor More

RAF Bomber Command 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys of No. 102 Squadron in flight during a press day at Driffield, March 1940.

RAF Bomber Command 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys of No. 102 Squadron during a press day at Driffield, March 1940.

RAF Bomber Command 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys of No. 102 Squadron during a press day at Driffield, March 1940.

RAF Bomber Command 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys of No. 102 Squadron refuelling during a press day at Driffield, March 1940.

RAF Bomber Command 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V N1385 DY-P of No. 102 Squadron taking off during a press day at Driffield, March 1940.

RAF Bomber Command 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys of No. 102 Squadron during a press day at Driffield, March 1940.

RAF Bomber Command 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk Vs of No. 102 Squadron during a press day at Driffield, March 1940. Foreground aircraft is N1379 DY-E.

RAF Bomber Command Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk Vs of No. 102 Squadron during a press day at Driffield, March 1940. N1382 DY-A in the background was lost on a raid to Augsburg, 16/17 August 1940. The foregrou More

RAF Bomber Command The crew of a Vickers Wellington Mk II board their aircraft at Driffield. circa August 1941.

RAF Bomber Command Aircrew of No. 405 (Vancouver) Squadron RCAF board their Wellington Mk II at Pocklington, July 1941.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command A typical group of 'Aussie' aircrew of No 460 Squadron, RAAF, photographed at Breighton, Yorkshire, 21 April 1942.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Engine fitters at Pocklington prepare to fit a brand new Rolls-Royce Merlin XX to a waiting Halifax, July/August 1942.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Tiredness etched on the face of a young Halifax pilot of No 405 (Vancouver) Squadron, RCAF, after returning from an operation over Germany, July/August 1942.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command A bomb aimer demonstrates the selector switches and bomb release in the cramped nose of a Halifax of No 10 Squadron at Melbourne, Yorkshire in December 1942.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command 'Pinocchio', a veteran Halifax of No 102 Squadron at Pocklington, has the bomb symbol for its 26th operation painted on its fuselage by a member of the ground crew, Apr More

Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command The duty officer in the tower at RAF Catfoss in Yorkshire keeps watch while an airman signals to an aircraft using an Aldis lamp, April 1941. Catfoss was home to No 2 More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1940. An air gunner sits at the ready in the Nash and Thompson Type FN4 rear turret of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V of No.102 Squadron RAF at Driffield, Yorkshire.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1940. The crew of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V of No. 102 Squadron RAF study their route at Driffield, Yorkshire, prior to taking off on a leaflet-dropping ("Nickel More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1940. Three Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark Vs take off on a leaflet-dropping ("Nickelling") sortie from Driffield, Yorkshire. In the foreground is Whitley V, N1380 'DY-R', More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. An Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V, N1371, of No. 102 Squadron RAF, landing at Driffield, Yorkshire, after a leaflet dropping ("Nickelling") sortie over Germany.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. An Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V, N1386 'DY-P', of No. 102 Squadron RAF takes off on a leaflet-dropping ("Nickelling") sortie from Driffield, Yorkshire.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. Ground crewmen hand propaganda leaflets to a crew member of Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V, N1386 'DY-P', of No. 102 Squadron RAF at Driffield, Yorkshire, prior t More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. Mechanics overhauling the Rolls Royce Merlin X engines of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V of No. 102 Squadron RAF at Driffield, Yorkshire. The front turret is a More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Flying Officer F H Greenhalgh, a wireless operator serving with No. 158 Squadron RAF based at Lissett, Yorkshire, contemplates his lucky escape when the propeller from More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Sergeant D Cameron, the pilot of Handley Page Halifax B Mark II, HR837 'NP-F', of No. 158 Squadron RAF, poses with two of his crew amidst the damage caused when it was More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Handley Page Halifax B Mark II Series I (Special), DK148 'MP-G' "Johnnie the Wolf", of No. 76 Squadron RAF rests at Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, after crash-land More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Group Captain P C "Pick" Pickard with his pet sheepdog "Ming", pictured while resting from operations as Station Commander at Lissett, Yorkshire.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The crew of a Handley Page Halifax of No 51 Squadron RAF hand in their parachutes at Snaith, Yorkshire on their return from a bombing raid on the Ruhr, Germany.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The Station Commander at Pocklington, Yorkshire, signals Handley Page Halifax B Mark II Series I (Special), DT742 'DY-O', of No. 102 Squadron RAF, piloted by Sergeant More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. WAAF safety equipment assistants, working in the parachute section at Snaith, Yorkshire, inspecting Mark I Life Jackets ('Mae Wests'). Behind them are parachutes hang More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Handley Page Halifax Mark II Series1A, JD206 'DY-T' of No. 102 Squadron RAF, about to be towed from its dispersal by a David Brown tractor at Pocklington, Yorkshire. More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Flight Lieutenant A Carey, Captain of Handley Page Halifax Mark II, 'B for Beer', of No. 102 Squadron RAF, leads his crew to the interrogation room at Pocklington, Yo More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Following their briefing, Handley Page Halifax crews of No. 76 Squadron RAF board their transports at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, to be driven to their dispersa More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Handley Page Halifax B Mark II Series 1A, HR952 'MH-X', of No. 51 Squadron RAF receiving a mixed load of 500-lb MC bombs and incendiaries in its dispersal at Snaith, Y More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Squadron Leader Peter Hill, briefs crews of No. 51 Squadron RAF on the forthcoming raid to Nuremberg, Germany in the Operations Room at Snaith, Yorkshire. The Station More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The Station Commander at Snaith, Yorkshire, Group Captain N H Fresson, is joined by other officers on the balcony of the control tower as they await the return of Hand More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Trolleys loaded with 500-lb GP and MC bombs, and their attendant armourers, are towed by tractors from the Bomb Store at Snaith, Yorkshire, towards aircraft dispersals More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Close up of the nose insignia on Handley Page Halifax B Mark III, LV907 'NP-F' "Friday the Thirteenth", of No. 158 Squadron RAF, after returning to Lissett, Yorkshire, More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Half-length portrait of Air Vice Marshal J R Whitley, Air Officer Commanding No. 43 Base. He became AOC of No. 4 Group on 12 February 1945, and the last commander of More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Armourers check over a mixed bomb load of three 1,000-lb MC bombs and small bomb containers (SBCs) filled with 30-lb incendiary bombs, loaded into the bomb-bay and win More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The Officer of the Watch in the Watch Office at Snaith, Yorkshire, guiding Handley Page Halifaxes of No. 51 Squadron RAF back to base after a night raid on Nuremberg. More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. An electrical fitter making adjustments to "George", the automatic pilot on a Handley Page Halifax at Pocklington, Yorkshire.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The nose of Handley Page Halifax B Mark II, W7710 'LQ-R' "Ruhr Valley Express", of No. 405 Squadron RCAF, at Pocklington, Yorkshire. An extra truck was added to the n More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Armourers loading the ammunition servo-feed to the rear turret in a Handley Page Halifax at Pocklington, Yorkshire.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. A Chance Light, a powerful runway floodlight on a trailer, in operation at Pocklington, Yorkshire. Behind the Chance Light is the Airfield Identification Beacon, also More

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. A Handley Page Halifax Mark II Series 1of No. 10 Squadron RAF lands at Melbourne, Yorkshire, after a night raid to Turin, Italy.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Ground crews overhaul the Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines of Handley Page Halifax Mark II, BB194 'ZA-E', of No. 10 Squadron RAF, in a dispersal at Melbourne, Yorkshire.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Half length portrait of Wing Commander G W Holden, Officer Commanding No. 102 Squadron RAF, taken at Pocklington, Yorkshire.

Photography British non-rigid airship of the S. S. ZERO class being handled by R. A. F. ratings at Howden Airship Station.

Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving with No. 102 Squadron, by the rear turret of his Halifax at RAF Pocklington, February 1944. West Indians in the Royal Air Force: Sergeant Lin More

Severely Damaged Halifax Gets Back To Base Comment : NP Squadron code on fuselage appears to identify this as belonging to No. 158 Squadron RAF.

Special Operations Executive (soe) and Special Forces Agents during the Second World War Group Captain Percy Charles "Pick" Pickard, RAF. Portrait cropped from Royal Air Force official photograph CH 10251, tak More

The 303 Polish Fighter Squadron in the Battle of Britain Flying Officer Zdzisław Henneberg, Flight Lieutenant John A Kent, AFC, and newly awarded the DFC, and Flying Officer Marian Pisarek, all from the 303 Pol More

The 303 Polish Fighter Squadron in the Battle of Britain In the summer of 1940 the first Polish squadrons were formed in Fighter Command. No 303 'City of Warsaw' Squadron was the top-scoring RAF unit in Septemb More

The 303 Polish Fighter Squadron in the Battle of Britain In the summer of 1940 the first Polish squadrons were formed in Fighter Command. No 303 'City of Warsaw' Squadron was the top-scoring RAF unit in Septemb More

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 Troops help gather in the harvest at Fridaythorpe in Yorkshire, 2 September 1943.

The Polish Air Force in Britain, 1940-1947 The first four Polish recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, wearing their awards after a presentation ceremony by Air Marsha More

The Polish Air Force in the Battle of Britain Flying Officer Zdzisław Henneberg, Flight Lieutenant John A. Kent and Flying Officer Marian Pisarek, all from No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, standing by the Squad More

The Polish Air Force in the Battle of Britain A group of pilots of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron RAF standing by the tail elevator of one of their Hawker Hurricane Mark Is at RAF Leconfield, 24 October 1940. More

The Polish Air Force in the Battle of Britain A group of pilots of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron walking toward the camera from a Hawker Hurricane after, purportedly, returning from a fighter sortie. Left to More

The Polish Air Force in the United Kingdom, 1939-1947. The first four Polish recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross No 303 Polish Fighter Squadron RAF, wearing their awards after a presentation ceremony More

The Royal Australian Air Force in Britain, 1943 The first all Australian crew in Bomber Command to complete a tour of operations (with No 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force) stand in front of their Vicker More

Scope and content: On backing : "This picture contained in small envelope marked in Mr. Wellcome's handwriting-'Beverly, Association' (meaning Beverly, England, associations of Wm. Duncan as a youth). Dr. Well More

Active (ship) Caption: The 'Active', built 1898, was bought by the Ferrum Steamship Co. Ltd., (G. T. Gillie and Company) in 1918. She is pictured here in the Yorkshire Ouse, bound for Goole.

Ostrich (ship) Wrecked near Aldborough, East Yorkshire. (Description supplied with photograph.).

Picryl description: Public domain image of trees, forest, park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two men on the cliff top. The man to the left has a long rope attached (presumably) around his waist, and a large bag slung over his shoulder. He is placing eggs in a basket which already contains many eggs. He More

View of the top of part of the cliffs at Bempton, where there are buttresses and "chimneys". At the top two men can be seen with a rope running down to the cliff top from them. They are in shirt-sleeves but are More

View of the river near East Cottingwith. In the middle of the river a man, wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a dark waistcoat, trousers and a cap, is standing in a small boat, propelling it with More

View of the river at East Cottingwith. Towards the right is what looks like a tributary coming in; it could be the Pocklington Canal. To the left is a boat, with what looks like a small dinghy alongside; presum More

View of Cottingworth lock which is empty with the top gates closed but leaking. The sluice-gear is on top of the gates, which have very thin balance beams. The lock walls are made of brick and topped with large More

East Cottingwith church with a small tower. Behind the Church are two barns and in the foreground is a pub sign. The road in front of the church, is cobbled and rutted.

View of East Cottingwith showing brick-built, pantiled cottages and houses with a wide street. Many of the houses have wooden fences in front of them and most have white-painted "Yorkshire lights" sliding windows.

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The Ferry Boat Inn near East Cottingwith. The building has a slate roof and what appear to be rendered walls; the windows are white-painted sashes. In front of the door are standing three men and one woman. The More

The Ferry Boat Inn near East Cottingwith. The building has a slate roof and what appear to be rendered walls; the windows are white-painted sashes. In front of the door are standing three men and one woman. The More

A view along the coast towards Flamborough, with the lighthouse seen in the background to the right; the sea is to the left, and there are sizeable waves rolling in. There is a stack in the middle of the photog More

Small wooden lifting bridge, in two cantilevered halves and set on wooden piles.

View of part of the chalk cliffs (probably Bempton), with a cleft running through the rock vertically. Within this is a group of about half a dozen birds, which are apparently razorbills, although they are too More