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Daily Herald Photograph: Southport Horticultural show

1938-09-03

Daily Herald Photograph: Southport Flower Show

1950-08-22

The Eagle has Landed

1990

Copper foment can, England, 1880-1930

1880-1930

Contact Lenses and Eye Casts

1965-1975

Revolving drum for eye-testing, Snellin-type chart with four faces each which has a different test type

Revolving eye-testing chart

Model, scale 1:24, of gaff yawl rigged yacht the 'Jullanar' (1875) with silver-plated plaque, designed by E.H. Bentall and John Harvey, model by Andrew Webster Kiddie, Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, England, 1900-1910

Whole model of gaff yawl rigged yacht 'Jullanar'

1900-1910

Vintage silver gelatin print by Tony Ray-Jones entitled 'Southport', 1967. This was reproduced as plate 44 in Ray-Jones' posthumous book 'A Day Off - An English Journal' published in 1974.

Vintage silver gelatin photograph, entitled 'Southport'

1967

Vulcan type VSD 2 ton lorry, 1926. Registration no. TU 3024, chassis no. 27/1774, engine no. 7126. Vulcan Motor and Engineering Co. was formed in 1903 by the Hapson brothers. After the First World War the company started to suffer due to a surplus of decommissioned army lorries on the market, and by 1924 the workforce had decreased from 1000 to 700. However in 1925 the War Department subsidy was introduced in an attempt to stimulate sales, whereby civilians would receive a subsidy when buying vehicles built to War Department specifications (on the condition that the vehicle could be commandeered for military use if required). This is a Vulcan VSD built in 1926 under this Government subsidy scheme. The VSD had been in production from 1920 and met War Department specifications; consequently Vulcan were able to continue the production of them until 1929.

VSD lorry

1926

Leaflet for an exhibition 'The Eagle has Landed...' celebrating 40 years of the Eagle magazine, Dan Dare strip and its creator Frank Hampson, at the Atkinson Art Gallery Southport, 1990. [4]pp. 21x29.5cm. Assorted illustrations

The Eagle has Landed

1990

Corgi motor cycle, 1948. The Corgi is a fold-up motorcycle based on the military Welbike. The Welbike was designed to fit in a container and be dropped by parachute behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The design was redeveloped for a mass market by John Dolphin and production of the Corgi began in 1948. 27,050 were manufactured and some exported to the US, branded as the ‘Indian Papoose’. However even though additions like a side car and kick start were added, standards of motorcycles and living were changing in the 1950s and people wanted more than the very basic Corgi, so production ended in October 1954.

Corgi Motorcycle, 1948

1948

Vintage silver gelatin print by Tony Ray-Jones entitled 'Beauty Contest, Southport', 1967. This was reproduced as plate 4 in Ray-Jones' posthumous book 'A Day Off - An English Journal' published in 1974.

Vintage silver gelatin photograph, entitled 'Beauty Contest, Southport'

1967

Vintage silver gelatin print by Tony Ray-Jones entitled 'Beauty Contest, Southport', 1967. This was reproduced as plate 3 in Ray-Jones' posthumous book 'A Day Off - An English Journal' published in 1974.

Beauty Contest, Southport

1967