Rockets Collection

Members of the Home Guard seen here firing Z Battery short range anti aircraft missiles. July 1942

39th Regiment Royal Artillery, part of 1st Artillery Brigade, aka The Welsh Gunners, showcase their Multiple Launch Rocket System at Albemarle Barracks, Northumberland, 9th November 1995

A jumble of small faces peer at a pile of very big bangers. You can just imagine the fun these Caversham children will have on Bonfire Night. October 1959 P029085

RAF Coastal Command Beaufighter Squadron. A heavily armed escort vessel, sheltering within range of coastal batteries, is attacked with rocket projectiles, from RAF Coastal Command Beaufighters

For some time past, Britains newest anti-aircraft devices, rocket guns, have been in action against the Luftwaffe. These guns

First pictures of the Home Guard A. A in action Carrying the rockets to the projectors
First pictures of the Home Guard A.A in action Carrying the rockets to the projectors. 8th July 1942

Leading Aircraftman R. E. Atkins of Ealing, London demonstrate the size of the rockets he is about to fit on to a RAF Beaufighter on a Sardinia airfield. 26th July 1944

Testing at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment, Westcott, Buckinghamshire, Thursday 5th November 1964

European Launcher Development Organisation, testing site at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics, Hatfield, Wednesday 26th August 1964. Our picture shows

Crowds gather on the sea front and promenade at New Brighton to watch a spectacular Bonfire night firework display organised by Wirral Council Leisure Services, Wirral, Merseyside. 5th November 1989

Edinburgh Tower is framed by the spectacular firework given in Everton Park, Liverpool, Merseyside. 5th November 1990

Customs Guy Fawkes Day: A jumble of small faces peer at a pile of very big bangers. You can just imagine the fun these Caversham children will have on Bonfire Night. October 1959 P029085

Fireworks from the Stockton annual firework display reflected in the river. 4th November 1983

John Helm as Guy Fawkes seen here promoting the Guisborough annual firework display. 30th October 1982

Wind and rain did not stop local Middlesbrough residents from coming out to watch the fireworks display at Clairville Common. 5th November 1980

Rockets explode over Dunedin House during the Stockton Riverside firework display. 5th November 1992

Middlesbrough newsagent Mel Taylor with his ice cream freezer which he has converted into a fireworks cabinet. 2nd November 1991

Bonfire celebrations at Stocktons Riverside. 5th November 1996

Bonfire night lights up the sky as the fireworks explode over the Tees at the Teesdale Site Stockton. 5th November 1990

Public fireworks display Clairville Common, Middlesbrough? 5th November 1986

Lions fireworks display at Chester 5th November 1967

Public display of fireworks at Walton Hall Park. 5th November 1988

Crowds gathered on Prestatyns Central Beach to watch firework display. 30th August 1973

Penny for the guy? This character was spotted in the offices of the Liverpool Echo. 26th October 1979

A Polaris A-3 missile ignites its main rocket motor after being launched from the USS Tecumseh at the Atlantic Missile Range. The A3 version of the missile carried up to three nuclear warheads

A jumble of small faces peer at a pile of very big bangers. You can just imagine the fun these Caversham children will have on Bonfire Night. 30th October 1959

Patriot Missile Battery stands at thye ready close to the Dharan airbase during the Gulf Crisis

A Thor Rocket ballistic missile on a launching pad. February 1960 P004621

28 year old Kinni Gibson who has only been married 2 months at the garden party this afternoon. Seen here flying with the aid of his rocket belt. Circa 1975 P004743

The Blue Streak F11 is tested at the Spadeadam rocket site beside Gilsland on the Northumberland - Cumberland border. Blue Streak was Britains part of Eldo the European Space Vehicle Launcher

This 55-ton Thor H-Bomb rocket was flown back to the United States from the Bomber Command rocket base at Hemswell, Lincolnshire

Rescue workers bringing up a soldier victim from an area he was blown into following a German V2 flying bomb attack during the Second World War January 1945

Apollo 12 moon rocket model on display. L to R, Paul Ward and his friend Jeremy Fox both aged 8 of Belgravia study the model of an Apollo rocket. November 1969 Z10880-001

"Get into Orbit"is the theme of this year
" Get into Orbit" is the theme of this years Christmas illuminations in Carnaby Street. Lifting the rocket is Suzanna Coutts (22) from Ipswich. November 1969 Z10876

Geordies take a journey into space, as least as far as the steel bars on the rockets allow at the Hoppings in 1955 at Newcastles Town Moor

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