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Electro-Convulsive Therapy mouth gags

Electro-Convulsive Therapy mouth gags

1950-1990
Workmate Mark 1

Workmate Mark 1

1968-72
Prototype Mark 1 Workmate

Prototype Mark 1 Workmate

1967
Proscar Prostate Teaching Model

Proscar Prostate Teaching Model

circa 1992-2000
Daily Herald Photograph: Chicks at Sisservernes Farm

Daily Herald Photograph: Chicks at Sisservernes Farm

1952-03-21
Six Channel Sound Mixer

Six Channel Sound Mixer

Watkins Dial Meter Experimental Model

Watkins Dial Meter Experimental Model

1900
Daily Herald Photograph: View of Farm and Workers

Daily Herald Photograph: View of Farm and Workers

1938-03-02
Second Prototype Workmate

Second Prototype Workmate

1967
Daily Herald Photograph: Veterinary Surgeon with Chicks

Daily Herald Photograph: Veterinary Surgeon with Chicks

1952-03-21
Daily Herald Contact Sheet; National Pig Progeny Testing Station

Daily Herald Contact Sheet; National Pig Progeny Testing Station

1961
Daily Herald Contact Sheet: Chicks at Sisservernes Farm

Daily Herald Contact Sheet: Chicks at Sisservernes Farm

1952-03-21
Daily Herald Photograph: Cotton plants in Hertfordshire

Daily Herald Photograph: Cotton plants in Hertfordshire

1933-10-06
'Reliance' gas x-ray tube with platinum target in heavy anti-cathode

'Reliance' gas x-ray tube with platinum target in heavy anti-cathode

1914-1932
Knebworth, Herts, seat of Lord Lytton

Knebworth, Herts, seat of Lord Lytton

1910
In the Grounds

In the Grounds

1910
Daily Herald Contact Sheet: Chicks at Sisservernes Farm

Daily Herald Contact Sheet: Chicks at Sisservernes Farm

1952-03-21
Daily Herald Photograph: Women's Land Army, ploughing

Daily Herald Photograph: Women's Land Army, ploughing

1942-08-11
Bush combined radio/television/alarm clock

Bush combined radio/television/alarm clock

1979
Daily Herald Photograph: Chicks at Sisservernes Farm

Daily Herald Photograph: Chicks at Sisservernes Farm

1952-03-21
Oral history interview with John Rhodes, conducted and recorded by Michael Lee at the interviewee's home in Hertfordshire on 18 April 2018. Duration: 1 hr. 30 min. Department of the Environment; West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (WYPTE); British Rail Headquarters Business Review department; Office of the Rail Regulator (ORR); privatisation model; advising on the Railways Bill; developing regulation approach; industry financial structure; privatisation objectives; role at ORR; open access operators; Train Operating Units; decision to privatise Railtrack; Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC); Organising for Quality (OfQ); funding stability; rolling stock companies (ROSCOs); working with Office of Rail Passenger Franchising (OPRAF); trainload freight businesses; ticket retailing; risk transfer and passenger franchises

John Rhodes interviewed by Michael Lee

2018-04-18
Oral history interview with Michael Lee, conducted and recorded by David Wharton-Street (session 2) at the interviewee's home in Hertfordshire on 23 May 2019. Duration: 1 hr. 35 min. 31 sec. Creation of Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF) teams for each franchise; South Central and West Anglia-Great Northern (WAGN) franchises; franchise length; forms and process documentation; successful bidders for South Central and WAGN; Transportation Consultants International (TCI); AEA Technology; Office of Rail and Road (ORR); open access; manipulation of Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Services (ORCATS); ORR business plan and monitoring; disruption compensation; Network Rail; Her Majesty’s Railway Inspectorate (HMRI) and rail safety; ORR’s risk register; Network Rail devolution; investment scheme overruns and cost escalation; British Rail (BR) investment in developing people; overseas privatisations; Control Period (CP) 5 and Northern England; sectorisation; reflections on privatisation; Williams Review

Michael Lee interviewed by David Wharton Street (session 2 of 2)

2019-05-23
Oral history interview with David Wharton-Street, conducted and recorded by Michael Lee at the interviewer's home in Hertfordshire on 28 June 2019. Duration: 3 hr. 38 min. 43 sec. Early career; Acting Director Regional Railways North East (RRNE) 1990; British Railways Board Safety Department 1993; Safety & Standards Department; Railtrack secondment 1994; sectorisation; proposed closure of Settle & Carlisle line 1993; DalesRail trains deal; Friends of Settle & Carlisle; management of Settle & Carlisle route; Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Service (ORCATS); Accountancy and Passenger Ticket Issuing System (APTIS); Portable Operated Ticket Issuing System (PORTIS); Class 47; Class 15x Sprinters; Ribblehead Viaduct repair; closure process; infrastructure maintenance issues; Hellifield signalbox; Serpell Report; Bob Reid 1; Jim O’Brien; Settle & Carlisle put up for sale; West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (WYPTE); closure situation overview development of ORCATS; Computer Analysis of Passenger Revenue Information System (CAPRI); Monopolies & Mergers Commission (M&MC); Profit Planning & Cost Centre Analysis (PP&CCA); Accounting and Expenditure Information System (AXIS); development of Sector Accounting and Monitoring System (SPAMS); Local Vehicle Record System (LOVERS); Rail Vehicle Record System (RAVERS); sectorisation and structural change; Frank Paterson; David Rayner; RRNE management team; Mark Causebrook; David Prescott; Charles Devereux; Don Jary; RRNE after Organising for Quality (OfQ); Track Access Development Team; electrification; track cost allocation; financial penalties; prime user; costing; privatisation and timescales; safety; Safety Critical Staff Protocol

David Wharton-Street interviewed by Michael Lee

2019-06-28
Oral history interview with Michael Beswick, conducted and recorded by Michael Lee in Hertfordshire on 10 September 2018. Duration: 2 hr. 3 min. 13 sec. Personal background; pre-1992 considerations on InterCity privatisation; 1992 election; implications for InterCity business and brand; John Ellis (InterCity Deputy Managing Director); Roger Salmon (Franchising Director) and John Swift (Rail Regulator) appointed; government urgency; Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC); Roger Freeman (Minister of Transport); paper on fares regulation leaked; joining Office of the Rail Regulator (ORR); ORR initially a small organisation; privatisation structure goes live; plans to privatise Railtrack; approving track access contracts; moderation of competition; Project Control Group; performance regimes; preparing to privatise Railtrack; Relationships with Franchising Director; regulating Railtrack; sale of Railtrack; benefits and disappointments about privatisation

Michael Beswick interviewed by Michael Lee

2018-09-10
Oral history interview with Michael Lee, conducted and recorded by David Wharton-Street (session1) at the interviewee's home in Hertfordshire on 15 May 2019. Duration: 2 hr. 53 min. 12 sec. Early career; Operational Research; British Rail Engineering Inventory Control; traffic forecasting for small bore version of Channel Tunnel; development and implementation of Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Services (ORCATS); sectorisation made possible; Serpell Report; challenged by British Rail (BR); forecasting passenger train loadings and revenue; introduction of Class 43 High Speed train (HST); Age of the Train advertising; InterCity service modelling; move to Network SouthEast (NSE) as Economic Survey Officer; change in passenger loadings; London and South East travelcards; Central London Rail Study; Thameslink; Crossrail; Monopolies & Mergers Commission (M&MC) inquiry into NSE; monitoring passenger satisfaction; second inquiry; Service Route Manager; negotiating with Southern Region management who delivered service; interface between General Manager Southern Region and NSE; Organising for Quality (OfQ); Sub-Sector Planning & Marketing Manager; Head of Strategic Planning NSE; train operating units (TOUs); Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF); structure; liaison with BR and Department for Transport (DfT); development of Passenger Service Requirement (PSR) policy; Save Our Railways; passenger transport executives (PTEs); fares regulation; Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC); Rail Settlement Plan (RSP); fares and franchising; subsidy; types of franchise bidders

Michael Lee interviewed by David Wharton Street (session 1 of 2)

2019-05-15
Albumen print by William Baker. View of the pond at Beyfordbury, Hertforshire.

Pond at Bayfordbury

late 19th century
Flowmeter for I.M.P. apparatus, by J. Langham Thompson Ltd., English, 1951-1965

Flowmeter for I.M.P. apparatus

1951-1965
Photograph of foreground appears to be corner of village green with monument on it and large house behind. Bare trees along edge of road between green and house [Latimer Village Green, Chorley]. Taken in Chorley Wood, Herefordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Chorley Wood

Photograph of open ground in foreground then long avenue of trees, possibly house right at end. Taken in Nr. Aldbury, Hertfordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Ashridge House

Photograph of wooden footbridge over river with canoe holding 3 people going underneath. Bridge has handrail on one side only. Parklands beyond river bank, taken Munden Park. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Munden Park

Photograph of parkland with deer (similar view as 46/3). Taken in Nr Aldbury, Hertfordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Ashridge Park

1923-05
Photograph of view across fields towards small cluster of buildings and trees. Taken in Aldbury, Hertfordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Aldbury

1923-05
Photograph of cottages with tiled roofs and leaded windows alongside a river, reflected in the water. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Near Croxley Green

1926-05-07
Photograph of wooded area, mostly tree trunks and their shadows visible. Taken in Nr Aldbury, Hertfordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Ashridge

1923
Photograph of open ground in foreground, woods from middle ground to horizon. Taken in Nr Aldbury, Hertfordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Ashridge Park

1923-05
Photograph of view of village green with shop and other buildings on left. Shop has awning. Signpost in front of tree on corner of green. Taken in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Chipperfield

Photograph of view across a field with donkey in it. House behind hedge and surrounded by bare trees, taken in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Bricket Wood

Photograph of large round-arched gateway with wrought iron gates. Small lodge to left hand side. Trees behind lodge and gates. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Moor Park Gates

Photograph of old vertically-beamed houses to the right of a street - near one rendered, far one brick. Tiled roofs. Taken in Chorley Wood, Herefordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Chorley Wood

Photograph of view of village green with church in distance. Several people on the green and six men on bicycles along the edge of the green on the road. [Latimer Village Green, Chorley]. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Chorley Wood

Photograph of brick house (fairly modern) with leaded windows and picket fence in front. Taken in Chorley Wood, Herefordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Chorley Wood

Photograph of village green with houses along the back, right hand ones brick with vertical wood beams, left hand one brick of later date [Latimer Village Green, Chorley]. Taken in Chorley Wood, Herefordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Chorley Wood

Photograph of old brick farmhouse with beams and farm buildings next to it and behind, Bare tree in front of house. Front half of photo is road. Taken in Chorley Wood, Herefordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Chorley Wood

Photograph of open area in foreground with track coming in from left and leading into distance through avenue of trees and monument just visible at end, taken in the grounds of Ashridge House Estate. Taken in Nr. Aldbury, Hertfordshire, UK. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Bridgewater Monument

Photograph of view of fields and trees and small pond, taken in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Nr. Aldenham

Photograph of church tower just visible through trees, taken in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Aldenham Church

Photograph of view of a pond in wooded area, row of posts all round pond, taken in Letchmore Heath, Hertfordshire. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Letchmore Heath

Photograph of parkland with deer. Mixture of open areas and thickly planted trees. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Ashridge Park

1923-05
Photograph of old house which is named "Bovingdon Post Office", street going across front of it. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Bovingdon

1923-05
Photograph of path along right side with some open ground and trees from left into distance. From an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Untitled

1923-05