Images Dated 25th March 2020

WW2 - Hall Barn, near Beaconsfield, which was re-purposed during wartime to the

WW2 - Hall Barn, near Beaconsfield, which was re-purposed during wartime to the production of hospital supplies under its chatelaine the Honourable Mrs E F Lawson. The working parties at Hall Barn made some 87,000 garments and surgical dressings for hospitals. Date: 1940

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Army Airship "Delta" on ground

Army Airship "Delta" on ground with aircraft taking off beside it

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Parachute - Fausto Veranzio's Machinae Novae

Earliest published illustration of a parachute in history from Fausto Veranzio's Machinae Novae (Venice: 1595 - Plate 38)

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