A Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1 of No. 19 Squadron RAF being re-armed betw...
A Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1 of No. 19 Squadron RAF being re-armed between sorties at Fowlmere, near Duxford, September 1940. A Supermarine Spitfire Mark 1A of No 19 Squadron, Royal Air Force being re-armed betw... More
Avro Lancaster - Mepal - Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH1...
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Mechanics working on the port-outer Merlin engine of a No 75 (New Zealand) Squadron Lancaster at Mepal, Cambridgeshire, 9 February 1945.
Flight Lieutenant P S Turner of No. 242 Squadron RAF, rests on the tai...
Flight Lieutenant P S Turner of No. 242 Squadron RAF, rests on the tail elevator of his Hawker Hurricane Mk I, after landing at Fowlmere, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940. Flight-Lieutenant P S Tu... More
Flight Sergeant George "Grumpy" Unwin of No. 19 Squadron RAF climbs ou...
Flight Sergeant George "Grumpy" Unwin of No. 19 Squadron RAF climbs out of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk I at Fowlmere, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire after a sortie, September 1940. Flight-Sergeant G C "Grumpy" ... More
Flying Officer Leonard 'Ace' Haines of No. 19 Squadron on his Supermar...
Flying Officer Leonard 'Ace' Haines of No. 19 Squadron on his Supermarine Spitfire Mk I at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940. Flying Officer Leonard Haines of No. 19 Squadron sits by the cockpit of his Supe... More
Ground staff refuelling a Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIA of No. 19 Squadr...
Ground staff refuelling a Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIA of No. 19 Squadron RAF at Fowlmere, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940. Groundcrew refuelling Supermarine Spitfire Mark IIA, P7420, of No. 19 Sq... More
Pilot Officer A V "Taffy" Clowes of No. 1 Squadron standing by the nos...
Pilot Officer A V "Taffy" Clowes of No. 1 Squadron standing by the nose of his Hawker Hurricane Mk I at Wittering, October 1940. Pilot Officer A V "Taffy" Clowes of No. 1 Squadron RAF, standing by the nose of h... More
Pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF eat lunch in the Officers' Mess at Fowlm...
Pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF eat lunch in the Officers' Mess at Fowlmere, the satellite airfield to Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940. Officers of No. 19 Squadron RAF take lunch in the Officers' Mess a... More
Pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF relax in the crew room at Fowlmere, the ...
Pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF relax in the crew room at Fowlmere, the satellite airfield to Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940. Squadron Leader B J E 'Sandy' Lane, the Commanding Officer of No. 19 Squadr... More
Pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF stage a mock 'scramble' from the back of...
Pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF stage a mock 'scramble' from the back of a truck at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940. Pilots of No 19 Squadron, Royal Air Force 'scramble' for the photographer, from the back ... More
Pilots of No. 19 Squadron relax between sorties outside their crew roo...
Pilots of No. 19 Squadron relax between sorties outside their crew room at Manor Farm, Fowlmere, near Duxford, September 1940. Left to right: Pilot Officer W Cunningham, Sub-Lieutenant A G Blake of the Fleet Ai... More
Soil Conservation in Huntingdonshire- Agriculture in England, UK, 1944...
Soil Conservation in Huntingdonshire- Agriculture in England, UK, 1944 A grab line on a small crane is being used to load clay subsoil into waiting horse-drawn carts. This clay will be carried by the carts to ... More
Soil Conservation in Huntingdonshire- Agriculture in England, UK, 1944...
Soil Conservation in Huntingdonshire- Agriculture in England, UK, 1944 A crane-load of clay subsoil is loaded into a horse-drawn cart on Huntingdon Fen. This clay will be carried by the carts to other parts of... More
Soil Conservation in Huntingdonshire- Agriculture in England, UK, 1944...
Soil Conservation in Huntingdonshire- Agriculture in England, UK, 1944 A farmer uses a horse-drawn tip cart to deposit piles of clay subsoil onto the fields around Huntingdon Fen. This clay will be dug into th... More
Spitfire pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF gather at Manor Farm, Fowlmere,...
Spitfire pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF gather at Manor Farm, Fowlmere, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940. Pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF gather at Manor Farm, Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, after a sortie, .
Spitfire pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF gather at Manor Farm, Fowlmere,...
Spitfire pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF gather at Manor Farm, Fowlmere, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940. A group of pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF discuss a recent sortie by Manor Farm at Fowlmere,... More
Squadron Leader Brian 'Sandy' Lane, CO of No. 19 Squadron (centre) con...
Squadron Leader Brian 'Sandy' Lane, CO of No. 19 Squadron (centre) confers with Flight Lieutenant Walter 'Farmer' Lawson and Flight Sergeant George 'Grumpy Unwin at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940. Three ... More
The work of the Women's Land Army in the Reclamation of Fen Land, Camb...
The work of the Women's Land Army in the Reclamation of Fen Land, Cambridgeshire, England, 1942 Land Girl May Edwards, a factory worker in peacetime, drives the tractor whilst other members of the WLA help a f... More
The work of the Women's Land Army in the Reclamation of Fen Land, Camb...
The work of the Women's Land Army in the Reclamation of Fen Land, Cambridgeshire, England, 1942 Farmers use an Allis Chalmers Massey Harris grub breaker to break up a piece of heavy fen land in Cambridgeshire.... More
The work of the Women's Land Army in the Reclamation of Fen Land, Camb...
The work of the Women's Land Army in the Reclamation of Fen Land, Cambridgeshire, England, 1942 Land Girls Ivy Reid, Alice Crook, Joy Godsall and a colleague dig an old bog oak out of this piece of reclaimed f... More
WAAF telephone operators in RAF Fighter Command's Sector 'G' Operation...
WAAF telephone operators in RAF Fighter Command's Sector 'G' Operations Room at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, receiving reports of enemy aircraft plots from Observer Corps posts, September 1940. WAAF telephone opera... More
Three Stirling bombers taking off, Great Britain
A Royal Air Force flight of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit Short Stirling aircraft flying south-west, with the outskirts of Waterbeach (UK) in the foreground and Cambridge in the distance. From near to far the ... More
1911 Britannica-Architecture-Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral — Gothic church tower in 1911. Photo, F. Frith & Co.. Image from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, article Architecture.
Wellington crew at RAF Waterbeach WWII IWM CH 2505
IWM caption : The crew of a Vickers Wellington of No. 99 Squadron RAF get into their Irvin two-piece flying suits in the crew room at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, before taking off for a night raid to Berlin.
Cambridge. Great Court of Trinity College (3611632740)
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01553 Title: Cambridge. Great Court of Trinity College Designer: Thomas Nevile Great Court date: ca. 16... More
486 Squadron RNZAF Wittering 1942
No. 486 (NZ) Squadron RAF Hurricane night fighter and pilots at RAF Wittering, England.
Captured Fiat CR42 at RAF Duxford
A captured Italian Fiat CR.42 Falco (RAF serial BT474) of the RAF Air Fighting Development Unit, parked in a dispersal at Duxford, Cambridgeshire (UK). The aircraft was salvaged following a forced landing at Or... More
Hurricane I 1 Sqn RAF at RAF Wittering 1940
Pilot Officer A.V. "Taffy" Clowes of No. 1 Squadron RAF, climbing into his Hawker Hurricane Mark I (P3395 "JX-B"), in a revetment at RAF Wittering, Huntingdonshire (UK). Note Clowes' personal 'wasp ' emblem und... More
Lancaster B Mark IIs at RAF Waterbeach July 1944 IWM CL 4213
IWM caption : Avro Lancaster B Mark IIs of No. 514 Squadron RAF taxy onto the main runway at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, for a daylight attack on fortified villages east of Caen, in support of the Second Army'... More
Loading cookie on Mosquito WWII IWM CH 12621
Armourers wheel a 4,000-lb HC bomb ('Cookie') for loading into a De Havilland Mosquito B Mark IV (modified) of No. 692 Squadron RAF at RAF Graveley, Huntingdonshire.
Mustang Is 2 Sqn RAF in flight c1942
Two Royal Air Force North American Mustang Mark Is (AG550 XV-U and AM112 XV-X) of No. 2 Squadron RAF based at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, in flight over Cambridgeshire (UK). AG550 is being flown by Wing ... More
NAAFI canteen RAF Oakington Feb 1941 IWM CH 2144
IWM caption : RAF personnel being served tea and refreshments in the NAAFI canteen at Oakington, Cambridgeshire.
RAF Alconbury - 28 Apr 1942 - Airphoto
Aerial photograph of Alconbury airfield shortly after the USAAF assumed jurisdiction of the facility. Note the B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 93d Bomb Group are parked on the runway, 28 April 1942, sortie num... More
RAF Wittering aerial photograph WWII IWM HU 91901
IWM caption : Oblique aerial view of RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire, showing the technical and domestic sites and airfield looking west from a point over the A1. White Water Lake can be seen at top centre.