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Ribbed green glass poison bottle with glass stopper of Tincture of Morphine and Chloroform

Ribbed green glass poison bottle with glass stopper of Tincture of Morphine and Chloroform

1900-1979
A photograph of a photographer falling into a fountain

A photograph of a photographer falling into a fountain

24 June 1950
Binocular research microscope

Binocular research microscope

1945-1960
A photograph of a photographer emerging from a fountain

A photograph of a photographer emerging from a fountain

24 June 1950
6 phials containing antitoxin for veterinary use

6 phials containing antitoxin for veterinary use

Henry Taylor

Henry Taylor

1865
Gunning's pioneer street lamp gas controller

Gunning's pioneer street lamp gas controller

1897
One hand cranked carding machine for re-conditioning horse hair by Saunders of Bournemouth

Hand cranked carding machine for re-conditioning horse hair

8mm 400 feet film reel, edited film titled ' Bournemouth shed No. 1', made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge. The filmmaker filmed most of the footage when he worked at Bournemouth Motive Power Depot, between December 1965 and July 1967. Colour and silent footage. This is part 1 of 2 of the 'Bournemouth shed' film. Film shows 35012 coming on shed after bringing in down Bournemouth Belle; Running Foreman and turning gang; Coal; Crane; Fireman breaking lumps of coal in tender; 34034; August Bank Holiday 1966; Standing in pit of 34032; Stainer Class 5 in lifting road; 34040/34032; 34057 passed by up Pined Express; Ash wagon; Buffer moving; Loading ashes into wagon; Long pit being cleared; Sand furnace; Filling sandboxes on 34015; Steam Raiser putting up wood for light up; Blow down pit; using pneumatic tube cleaner in the Liftin Road; Spark Arrester (parrot cage); 76 class; fire lighting in Dec 1966; using water treatment briquettes; staff working; shedman’s mess; 34001 derailed; shots of rerailment of loco and tender; preparing turntable and turning 73020; Shunting; 34093 in Lifting Road; 34004 being cleaned; 41320; 35012 coming to shed; Boiler Washouts; Boiler inspection; 34071; Class 5; fire dropping; Lord Dowding; 35012; 34040; footplate;

8mm amateur film 'Bournemouth shed No. 1' by David Hodge

1965-1967
Example of the first "Gunfire" gas controller for street lamps, giving quick action

Example of the first "Gunfire" gas controller for street lamps

patented 1908
Two surface silvered mirrors 6 x 8cm in hinged frame. The angle between the two mirrors is adjustable by moveable studs and tensioned by a rubber band. Fixing bar and shoe for attachment to camera. Theodore Brown.

Theodore Brown's Stereoscopic Transmitter

Vintage silver gelatin print entitled 'Bournemouth' by Tony Ray-Jones, 1969. This was reproduced as plate 39 in Ray-Jones' posthumous book 'A Day Off - An English Journal' published in 1974.

Bournemouth

1969
Cardboard cut-out model goods van, Precision Card Parts for detailed rolling stock, Ref No 006/G.157 Southern Railway Special Cattle Wagon, by E Rankine Gray, Bournemouth, 4mm scale, original price 1/6.

Cardboard cut-out of Southern Railway cattle wagon

1930-1940
Full colour airbrushed illustration of SR Bulleid Pacific Locomotive, by Jerry Cave, [1986]. 2140x765cm. [Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Department of technical illustration, exhibited Science Museum, A way of explaining, 1987, no.16]

SR Bulleid Pacific Locomotive

1986
A black and white pigment print photograph, entitled 'Bournemouth' by Tony Ray-Jones, taken in 1969. This was selected from the original contact sheet by Martin Parr, and printed from the original negative in 2013.

Bournemouth

(1969); 2013
Technical illustration in ink line and airbrush of the Gossamer Albatross Aircraft, by John Lawson 1984. designer Paul MacCready. EC flight 12 June 1979. 104 x 180 cm. Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Department of technical illustration, exhibited Science Museum, A Way of Explaining, 1987, no.195]

Gossamer Albatross

1984
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed between 1965-1967, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: Fitter Freddie Fox inspecting 34015 Exmouth; General view of shed; Testing breakdown crane on back road; Fireman Malcolm Collop emptying smokebox ash; 34005 Barnstaple comes on shed tender first then moves forward to the Hump (West Country in background shunting coal train); Behind breakdown coaches coalman Jack McGettigan is shown doing his stuff (when not coaling locos, the coalmen were supposed to shovel ashes out of pit); 34005 backs and goes up to Shed; Taken from down platform, Bournemouth Central. Reel A. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel A

1965-1967
Example of Gunning's first gas controller for street lamps, switching "on" and "off", patented 1899

Example of Gunning's first gas controller for street lamps

1899
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed between 1965-1967, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: 34005 taking water; Taken from station; 34005 moving off Shed into station and back to Branksome; View across to Shed end of Coal yard, an 80000 class and Ivatt tank in view; View of whole coal yard from more acute angle than sequence above; Lot of engines in view but nothing particular happening; As above but showing Pacific on turntable. Reel G. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel G

1965-1967
8mm 400 feet film reel, edited film titled ' Bournemouth shed No. 2' made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge. The filmmaker filmed most of the footage when he worked at Bournemouth Motive Power Depot, between December 1965 and July 1967. Colour and silent footage. This is part 2 of 2 of the 'Bournemouth shed' film. Film shows- Trolleybus; Christchurch Road; Engine cleaning; Coal train being shunted; 34005; shovelling ashes; 80000 class; 4498 at bottom of climb from Christchurch to Bournemouth; Fitter working on 34047’s injectors; 35007; 34040 draws belle stock out of station; Fitter removing injector cones; 34047 and 34018 outside shed; Signalman leaving box for token; Brockenhurst; Lamport and Holt; 35026; New Forest, Woodfindley Curve; washout sequence; 76 Class; Coal wagons; Fitter in pit; sumulating engine passing over; engine crew being issued with new electric age uniforms; Embassy-last summer for operation 1966; clearing out smokebox; 35012 come on shed after bringin down the Belle and is being given a quick turnaround before taking Belle up again; Lord Dowding; footplate views on 34102 Lapford.

8mm amateur film 'Bournemouth shed No. 2' by David Hodge

1965-1967
Two 8mm 400 feet film reel, edited film titled ' Bournemouth shed No. 1' and ' Bournemouth shed No. 2', made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge. The filmmaker filmed most of the footage when he worked at Bournemouth Motive Power Depot, between December 1965 and July 1967. Colour and silent footage.

8mm amateur film 'Bournemouth shed' by David Hodge

1965-1967
[Prescription books (124) of Pars and Company, a Bournemouth pharmacy, covering years 1876 to 1978. (This pharmaceutical chemists remained open every day for 103 years.) Listing available]

Prescription books (124) of Pars and Company

1876-1978
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, likely filmed between 1965-1967, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: train, headed by a Pacific, crosses Bourne Valley Viaduct and heads towards Branksome; 80000 class light engine crosses Bourne Valley Road; Train crosses Bourne Valley Viaduct; Taken from South side (Surrey Road); General shed view from station gate; Shed interior; On an up train to Waterloo, in this order: Avon bridge?, Hinton Admiral Bank, Brockenhurst, Southampton Central (Clock Tower), Eastleigh Shed (34013 Okehampton visible), entering a tunnel, Worting Junction, overtaking freight train hauled by 34037 Clovelly, Weybridge (pretty dark from now on), Clapham Junction, Loco Junction, before and after Vauxhall, Waterloo. Reel H. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel may have been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel H

1965-1967
woman passenger guard; Second World War; training;family; passenger guard training, 1940s; Rule 55, safety on stoppage; condition, shifts; wartime trains, Second World War; railway women; wartime blackout on trains; troop trains; prisoner of war trains; passenger guard duties; conditions, weather, 1947; railway women; National Railway Museum exhibition, "Oh Mrs Porter"; conditions, pay; d.o.b. 1923-10-23; railway work 1940-1947. Gloucester.

Lee, Violet Priscilla (nee Davis)

2000-08-24
Item from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy, Bournemouth, 1900-1979

Item from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy

1900-1979
Rubber bellows respiration unit, by C.F. Palmer Ltd., London, 1968-1974. Unused surplus apparatus donated by the manufacturer when it shut down.

Rubber bellows respiration unit

Paddle Steamer Preservation Society prospectus founded in 1959 by Dr. A.R. Robinson. Patron John Betjeman. With an extract from the rules and list of objectives and membership fees. Printed by W.J. Adams Ltd.

Paddle Steamer Preservation Society prospectus

1959
woman engine cleaner; family; conscription;female engine cleaner, Bournemouth Central Southern; Railway, d.o.b. 1908-08-23, railway work 1941-1945, Bournemouth;

Glassey, Hilda

2000-09-12
Ink line and watercolour technical illustration of Concorde BAC Aerospatiale aircraft, by Trevor Alner [1985]. 122 x 244cm. in large wood frame. [Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Department of technical illustration, exhibited Science Museum, A way of explaining, 1987, no.197]

Concorde BAC Aerospatiale

1985
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed in 1966. Filmmaker's description of the content: Train passing under Cleveland Road bridge towards Boscombe; Light engine (Ivatt tank) returning; rest of this film taken on L.C.G.B.'s A4 Commemorative Rail Tour hauled by 60024 Kingfisher, 27th March 1966: Approaching Worting (dark), approaching Fisherton Tunnel (dark), approaching Salisbury station (dark), 60024 at Exeter St. Davids awaiting right away for shed, 60024 under coaling tower, Exmouth Junction MPD, descending Honiton bank (dark), at Salisbury (dark). Reel L. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel may have been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel L

1966
[Programme for the] First International [Aviation] Meeting in Great Britain, [at Bournemouth in July 1910 / Bournemouth Centenary Fetes. [44p. Includes numerous portrait photos of pioneer aviators; names of competitors and their machines; plan of the aerodrome; photos of aeroplanes, etc.]

[Programme for the] First International [Aviation] Meeting in Great Britain, [at Bournemouth in July 1910]

1910
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed in 1966, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: November 1966, looking inside shed, 34047 Callington shining; Men at work with crane removing loading gauge alongside Shed; may be preparation for the major relaying of the track at Bournemouth Central the following month; Sequences taken from station platform; A shot through coaches of Drivers Peter Shave and Alec Saunders and fitters Roy Sly and Jim Dorey. Reel P. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel P

1966
Assignment of Leasehold premises and Goodwill and Stock in trade of [chemist and druggist' s] business at Bournemouth, Hants, M.L. Hetherington to J.H.T. Beale. 1880 May 14. [Deed of sale, for £1300, of premises etc by Martin Luther Hetherington to James Hawkins Tizard Beale, both of Bournemouth. Deed (1 sheet) bears seals and stamps]

Assignment of Leasehold premises and Goodwill and Stock in trade of chemist and druggist' s business at Bournemouth

1880
Specimen bottle of Isatis tinctoria woad pods, grown at Hinton Firs, Bournemouth, dated 1929

Specimen bottle of Isatis tinctoria woad pods

1929
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed between 1965-1967, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: 34040 Crewkerne on the hump, then moves back to Shed in a cloud of steam; Local train; Activity galore on shed; Crewkerne moves off; 34108 Wincanton comes off 5:30am, moves into Shed and is blown down; Then backs to coaling crane; Whole film from station platform. Reel Z. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel Z

1965-1967
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed in 1966, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: 26/11/1966, 35007 off shed, boiler washing (same sequence as seens in 'Bournemouth shed No.2'). Reel M. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel M

1966
Book, Tankerton Estate, particulars and conditions of sale of 131 lots of ripe freehold building land which will be sold by auction by Messrs F.G. Wheatley & Son. Dated 22nd October 1901. With maps and plans of the area and depiction of Tankerton Beach.

Tankerton Estate

1901
Example of Gunning's pioneer gas controller for street lamps, turning 'off' only, with cover, by the British, Foreign and Colonial Automatic Light Controlling Company Limited, Bournemouth, England, c. 1897.

Gunning's pioneer gas controller for street lamps

1897
Item from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy, Bournemouth, 1900-1979

Item from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy

1900-1979
Theodore Brown's stereoscopic transmitter instructions. Theodore Brown.

Instructions For Theodore Brown's Stereoscopic Transmitter

Theodore Brown's stereoscopic transmitter original carton. Theodore Brown.

Carton For Theodore Brown's Stereoscopic Transmitter

8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed between 1965-1967, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: double-couple scene 34024/34108; boilerwashing, Norman Whale and 'Lofty' Boyland; Stanier Class 5 in Lifting road; August Bank Holiday, 1966, Near empty shed; 34108 Wincanton outside; 34056 Croydon running down from shed (head on); Turner Johnnie Blackmore; Ginger Heckford and 76011, dropping ashes, taking water; Nine Elms man pulling point over; 73020 waiting to move from turntable, then being coaled. Reel T. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel T

1965-1967
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed between 1965-1967, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: Coaling with grab crane; Tank engine being positioned by driver; View of up station approach; 35007 Aberdeen Commonwealth climbing away from Bournemouth Central (spoilt by flashing). Reel Y. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel Y

1965-1967
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed between 1965-1967, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: A Class 5 (Standard) backs off turntable on to long pit; Water is taken; Backs down towards coaling crane; Opening ash pan; Fire in pit; Rocking grate; Shovelling coal into firebox; Back to turntable, turned, moves up to Shed. Reel S. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel S

1966
8mm 50 feet film reel, footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed between 1965-1967, when he worked at Bournemouth shed. Filmmaker's description of the content: A Class 5 and a diesel shunter after collision (3 views); 34015 Exmouth outside Shed; Mechanical lubricator being filled by Driver Peter Guy; Ivatt tank being watered in next road; Close-up of nameplate; View of Station from Beechey Road bridge; Interior of Shed looking out. Breakdown train in No. 4 Road. Boilerwasher Norman Whale boxing up engine in No. 3 Road; View from rear door of Shed; Ditto with train disappearing; Steamraiser Charlie Morris passing very clean 76007; Turner Johnnie Blackmore beckoning her on to turntable; View of 34047 Callington just cleaned; 76007 passes; Nameplate close-up; View of trains from same position but too dark to use. Reel J. Colour and silent footage. Some of the content of this reel has been cut out and used in 'Bournemouth shed' films by the filmmaker.

8mm amateur footage by David Hodge, reel J

1965-1967
Cardboard cut-out model goods van, Precision Card Parts for detailed rolling stock, Ref No 112/P.121 Great Western Railway 57ft "Ocean Mails" Van, by E Rankine Gray, Bournemouth, 4mm scale, original price 2/9.

Cardboard cut-out of Great Western Railway 'Ocean Mails' goods van

1930-1940
Item from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy, Bournemouth, 1900-1979

Item from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy

1900-1979
Amethocaine (local anaesthetic) from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy, Bournemouth, 1900-1979

Amethocaine from Pars Pharmacy

1900-1979
Item from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy, Bournemouth, 1900-1979

Item from collection of assorted drugs and containers from Pars Pharmacy

1900-1979
Cover for an example of Gunning's pioneer gas controller for street lamps, c.1987, turning "off" only

Cover for an example of Gunning's pioneer gas controller

1897