Images Dated 10th March 2003

Galahad introduced in the company of the Round Table 1370-80. Sir Galahad was one

Galahad introduced in the company of the Round Table 1370-80. Sir Galahad was one of the knights of King Arthur's Round Table in Arthurian legend. He was the illegitimate son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic, and he was renowned for his gallantry and purity

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Shrewsbury, GWR/LMS poster, 1939

Poster produced by Great Western Railway (GWR) and London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) poster to promote rail travel to the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury, historic town on the lovely River Severn. The town is known for its many timber-framed buildings. The mansion shown here, called Ireland's Mansion, was built in 1575 and still survives. Artwork by Claude Buckle (1905-1973), who originally trained as an architect, but later turned to pictorial art. He painted in both oil and watercolour and was a prolific poster artist for Great Western Railway (GWR) and BR. Much of his original poster artwork is held at the National Railway Museum. Dimensions: 1016 mm x 635 mm

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Artwork showing structure of human skeletal muscle

Skeletal muscle. Illustration of the structure of human skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle (top right) consists of bundles of long, thin cells called muscle fibres. A group of five muscle fibres with surrounding blood vessels is shown at centre. Each muscle fibre contains numerous "myofibrils", one of which is shown at lower centre. The myofibril is a bundle of two types of protein "myofilament": myosin (green) and actin (red). When the muscle is stimulated, tiny cross-bridges (lower left) in the myosin filaments hook onto actin filaments and pull them along. As a result, myosin and actin filaments slide over each other, shortening the muscle and making it contract

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