Lancaster Collection

Propaganda poster for the RAF during World War Two. Victory of the Allies is assured. Intensive bombing of Germanys war industries continues

Lancaster I (4-Merlin) Bomber, seen from three different angles. 1942

Wings For Victory More Savings - More Wings. Poster encouraging Britains to save money, aiding the war effort, specificially in the construction of new Lancaster Bomber aircraft for the RAF

Lancaster Bombers ready to take off, 1942
Photograph of an Avro Lancaster heavy bomber at a British airfield, ready to take off, somewhere in England, 1942. Although the engines are already running

Marriage of Henry Tudor
The wedding ceremony of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York united the Houses of York and Lancaster

Dambuster Lancaster Soars Again Over the Derwent Valley Dam
A Lancaster bomber aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) soars over the Derwent Valley Dam in Derbyshire

Spitfires and Hurricanes Flying in Formation Over Lincolnshire
Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft from World War II come together over Lincolnshire, for the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association Day event held at RAF Coningsby

Dambuster Lancaster Soars Again Over the Derwent Valley Dam
A Lancaster bomber aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) soars over the Derwent Valley Dam in Derbyshire

Death of Henry Percy (Harry Hotspur) at the Battle of Shrewsbury, 21 July 1403, (c1860). Together with his uncle, Thomas Percy

Lancaster Bomber with 2 Spitfire Fighter planes, 2011 Goodwood revival
Lancaster Bomber with Spitfire fighter aircraft during Aerial display at Goodwood 2011

Lancaster Bomber with 2 Spitfire Fighter planes, 2011 Goodwood revival
Lancaster Bomber with Spitfire fighter aircraft

2011 Goodwood Revival, Lancaster Bomber with Spitfire aircraft
2011 Goodwood Revival Meeting, Lancaster bomber and 2 Spitfires in aerial display

2011 Goodwood Revival Lancaster bomber and 2 Spitfires in aerial display
2011 Goodwood Revival Meeting, Lancaster bomber and 2 Spitfires in aerial display

Battle of Tewkesbury
Nobles of the Houses of York and Lancaster battle at Tewkesbury

Officers of Arms of the Heralds College, 1952
Participants in the Coronation Ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II. The Officers of Arms of the Heralds College (l to r): Bluemantle, J A Frere; Windsor Herald, R P Graham-Vivian; Richmond Herald

Avro Lancaster I R5868s for Sugar being bombed up
Avro Lancaster I, R5868, s for Sugar, being bombed up. The veteran of 137 wartime sorties, was initially preserved as a gate guardian at its former base

Ingleborough & Penyghent mountains vista
A distant view of two iconic hills in Yorkshire, part of the 3 peaks walk. Viewed from the Bowland forest area

View toward Lancaster, Lancashire, England
View toward Lancaster from Freemans Wood, Lancashire, England Date: circa 1910s

Avro Lancaster G-AHJW formerly ED866
Avro Lancaster, G-AHJW, formerly ED866, was used by Flight Refuelling until it crashed near Andover on 22 November 1948. Date: 1948

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, 1953. American poster for film version of James Joness novel From Here to Eternity, directed by Fred Zinnemann, 1953

Avro 683 Lancaster I of No 467 Squadron bombing-up-became the mainstay of RAF Bomber Command, the type entering operations in February 1942

Lancaster Castle Station, Lancashire, pictured on the morning of the official opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, for which it was the southern terminus Date: December 1846

LANCASTER CASTLE, Lancashire
Lancaster Castle, Lancashire, with some kind of social event going on in the grounds. Date: 1845

LANCASTER, Lancashire
Birds eye view of Lancaster, Lancashire

John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, early 15th century
Engraved portrait of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford (1389-1435), fourth son of King Henry IV of England

Lancaster Castle: John of Gaunts Tower, c1896. Artist: J Davis
Lancaster Castle: John of Gaunts Tower, c1896. From Pictorial England and Wales. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, c1896]

Opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway: Lancaster Station, Uk, 1846

The Bristol Brabazon under construction at Filton alongside an Avro Lancaster. 11 August 1948. Date: 1948

Two Labrador Retrievers standing in a field of poppies at Antelope Valley California
Two Labrador Retrievers standing in a field of poppies at Antelope Valley, California

The gateway, Lancaster Castle, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

BBMF Lancaster Bomber Preparing for Take Off
A World War II Lancaster bomber aircraft with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, prepares for take off on a mission to drop poppies over the newly unveiled Bomber Command Memorial in London

The River Lune & Valley, Lancaster
Viewed from the Crook of Lune looking up the Lune Valley with Ingleborough in the far distance

Lancaster Bomber of Battle of Britain Memorial Flight over Derwent Water
A Lancaster Bomber from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, flys over the Derwent Dam, 65 years to the day after the famous Dambuster raid known as Operation Chastise

Lancaster, from the Aqueduct Bridge, c1825. Artist: JMW Turner
Lancaster, from the Aqueduct Bridge, c1825. Painting housed in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXXVIII, edited by C. Reginald Grundy

Avro Lancaster I Aries, PD328, of the Empire Air Navigation School, Shawbury, warming up prior to its England to Cape Town record-breaking flight of 32hrs 21min

Goodwood Revival Battle of
Goodwood Revival

Prince Henry, Hotspur and Falstaff (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4), first published 1796; reissued 1852

Lancaster Nazareth House - young inmates
Younger children on the steps of the Nazareth House at Lancaster, run by the Sisters of Nazareth. Date: circa1913

Fraternity Clubs Building in New York City, USA
The Fraternity Clubs Building (nowadays Jolly Madison Towers Hotel), Madison Avenue at 38th Street, New York City, USA. A club hotel for men

Nancy Lancaster at Pytchley Hunt
A Loving-Cup. Mrs Ronald Tree (now better known as Nancy Lancaster) drinking a toast from the loving-cup presented to her husband, joint-Master of the Pytchley hunt

Nancy Lancaster
Lady Willoughby de Eresby and Mrs Ronald Tree (better known as Nancy Lancaster), billed in The Tatler as M.P.s wives on their presentation at court at Buckingham Palace

Nancy Lancaster and Clementine Churchill
Outside the new Churchill Hospital of the American Hospital in Britain, opened at Oxford: Mrs Ronald Tree (Nancy Lancaster, the influential interior decorator), Professor Phillip D Wilson

Nancy Lancaster and David Niven
Mrs Ronald Tree and actor David Niven at a darts contest in a canteen. Nancy Lancaster (1897 - 1994), nee Perkins, was an influential American-born tastemaker, interior decorator and garden designer

Avro Lancaster ASRIII SW329 at RAF Northolt August 1948
Avro Lancaster ASRIII, SW329, at RAF Northolt, August 1948. Date: 1948

War of the Roses
A battle between the Houses of York and Lancaster during the War of the Roses

North Road, Lancaster, early 1900s

A misty morning in Lancaster, early 1900s

Riley Brooklands outside the Stonor Arms Hotel, Henley-on-Thames, Inter-Varsity Trial, 1930
Riley Brooklands 2 seater sports 1929 1089 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. VC833. Event Entry No: 57 Driver: Lancaster, J.E. Place: Stonor Arms Hotel Henley-on-Thames. Inter-Varsity Trial. Date: 22.11.30

View of boats on shoreline and houses of coastal village, only community on U. K
View of boats on shoreline and houses of coastal village, only community on U.K. mainland dependent upon tidal access, with vehicular access to village via single-track road crossing tidal marsh

Goodwood Revival Avro Lancaster flypast

Lancaster County Asylum, Quernmore Road, Lancaster
The Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum was established at Quernmore Road, Lancaster Moor in 1816. It later became Lancaster County Mental Hospital and after 1948 was renamed Lancaster Moor Hospital

Lavinia Ryves
LAVINIA RYVES lady who claimed to be the princess of Cumberland and duchess of Lancaster

King Henry IV. Henry (1367-1413) was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence the other name by which he was known, Henry of Bolingbroke

Henry Duke of Lancaster
Henry, duke of LANCASTER also known as Henry of Grosmont, Henry of Monmouth great-grandson of Henry III, founder of Corpus Christi college at Cambridge Date: 1299? - 1361

Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London W2. Date: circa 1920

4th Hallamshire Machine Gun Section, c. 1914-1918
From an album of photographs of the Hallamshire Rifles (1st Hallamshire Volunteer Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment). From an original item at Sheffield Libraries: arc00436

Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, 1866
Engraving showing a street scene in Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, London, 1866. The houses on the right were built by John Kelk between 1863-7

John of Gaunt / Oval Eng
JOHN OF GAUNT Duke of Lancaster Fourth son of Edward III and brother of the Black Prince

London Museum 1914
Starting life in 1911 in Kensington Palace, this Museum moves in 1914 to these premises at Lancaster House, St James, before going back to Kensington Palace after WW2

Lancashire County Road Map
A detailed map of the glorious county of Lancashire in England, including most of Greater Manchester. Derived from high quality Collins Bartholomew map data showing larger villages

Battle of Bosworth Field Reenactment, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, UK

Sharp Special N32C 'Mr Zip', at Lancaster, CA, on 29 May 1965. Date: 1965

Lancaster England Skyline
Michael Tompsett

Lancaster England Skyline
Michael Tompsett

The Battle of Towton, West Riding of Yorkshire, fought in a snowstorm on 29 March 1461, during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). It was a Yorkist victory. Date: 1461

Avro Lancaster ASR. VII G-ASXX
Avro Lancaster ASR.VII G-ASXX (ex NX611, ex Aeronavale), at the Biggin Hill Air Fair in May 1965, shortly after arriving in the UK from Tahiti

J Lancaster & Son, Colmore Row, Birmingham
J Lancaster & Son, Cameras, Photographic and Scientific Equipment, Colmore Row, Birmingham. circa 1900

Royal Air Force - Avro Lancaster B. VI
Royal Air Force - Avro Lancaster B.VI, one of nine aircraft converted from B.IIIs, fitted with Rolls-Royce Merlin 85/87 which had two-stage superchargers

Old Map of Lancaster 1824 by Edward Baines
This is a fine detailed reproduction Map of The City of Lancaster, originally Published in 1836 by Edwward Baines

Lancaster LA1 3 Map
Postcode Sector Map of Lancaster LA1 3

Lancaster LA1 4 Map
Postcode Sector Map of Lancaster LA1 4

Postcode Sector Map sheet 19 Lancashire and The Isle of Man
This Postcode Sector Map (sheet 19) displays all of the first part of the postcode and the first number of the second part, or Inward Code, (eg EX20 3) for Lancashire & the Isle of Man

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"Lancaster: Wings For Victory and a Symbol of Resilience" Step back in time as the iconic Dambuster Lancaster soars again over the Derwent Valley Dam, reminding us of its indomitable spirit. With its powerful 4-Merlin engines, this Lancaster I Bomber became a symbol of strength during World War II. Transporting us to another era, the Temple Garden's fresco captures the essence of Lancaster's history. Choosing the Red and White Roses in 1910 signifies Lancashire's pride and heritage. During wartime, propaganda posters for the RAF showcased Lancaster's might, instilling hope and determination among all who saw them. The sight of these bombers ready to take off in 1942 was both awe-inspiring and comforting. In aviation history, not only did Lancaster leave an indelible mark but also witnessed other remarkable achievements. The Bristol Brabazon under construction at Filton stands as a testament to innovation and progress. The Goodwood Revival events brought together vintage aircraft enthusiasts from around the world. In 2011, spectators marveled at the aerial display featuring a Lancaster Bomber accompanied by two Spitfire Fighter planes - an unforgettable sight that paid homage to our aviation heritage. Lancaster Castle Station serves as a reminder of Lancashire's rich past while Spitfires and Hurricanes flying in formation over Lincolnshire evoke nostalgia for those brave souls who defended our skies during WWII. From war efforts to architectural marvels, propaganda posters to breathtaking displays at airshows - "Lancaster" encompasses more than just a name; it represents resilience, heroism, innovation, and above all else - wings reaching for victory.