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Roy Cross. Northrop HL-10. Lifting body technology demonstrator. 1 built 1966. Retired 1970. On display at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond

Baker Street Underground Station, London. Railway Benevolent Institution donation box. 12 inch high explosive shell presented by Vickers. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #BakerStreet #underground #donation #armament #explosive #RailwayBenevolentInstitution

Chalfont Court, Baker Street, London. Photo: 26.09.2024. #London

Minehead, Somerset. 4599. Mk 1 Tourist Second Open. York, lot 30243, 1958. Photo: 06.08.2004. #Minehead #coach #railway

Arthur C. Clarke, Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age, Mayflower, 1969. Cover: McCall. Collection of nonfictional essays. Subtitle only on cover. #ArthurClarke

Uncredited. From Harry Harrison, Skyfall, Faber and Faber, 1976.

Roy Cross. North American X-15. Hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft. Based on a concept by Walter Dornberger for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 3 built 1959. Retired 1968. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #WalterDornberger #BrookeBond

London. Nissan in Cleanology livery. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #Nissan #cleanology

London. BV 20 HRJ. Arriva Beds and Bucks. Mercedes-Benz Tourismo. Green Line livery. Fleet no. 7206. Photo: 26.09.2024. #London #bus #PublicTransport

Minehead, Somerset. 4346. Mk 1 Tourist Second Open. Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. (BRCW), lot 30207, 1956. Converted to TSO with buffet and Commonwealth bogies, 04/2005, completed 09/2010. Photo: 06.08.2004. #Minehead #coach #railway

Arthur C. Clarke (ed) - actually anonymously edited by Robert Silverberg, Three For Tomorrow, Sphere, 1972. Cover: Eddie Jones. Collects Robert Silverberg's How It Was When the Past Went Away; Roger Zelazny's The Eve of RUMOKO & James Blish's We All Die Naked. #ArthurClarke #EddieJones

Greg Spalenka. From The Art of Greg Spalenka: Visions from the Mind's Eye, Titan Books, 2014. Limited edition of 500 unnumbered copies issued in illustrated slipcase with signed print in envelope and variant jacket from trade edition. #GregSpalenka

Roy Cross. Montgolfier balloon. Made by Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, 1783. First free flight by humans made by Pilâtre de Rozier, 21.11.1783. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #balloon #Joseph-MichelMontgolfier #PilâtredeRozier #BrookeBond

Tower Bridge, London. Queen Victoria Memorial stone. The foundation stone for Tower Bridge. 1886 by Horace Jones. Laid by HRH Albert Edward Prince of Wales. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #memorial #HoraceJones

Broadoak (Oliver House Preparatory School), London. Later half C18. Photo: 26.09.2024. #London #scool

Paignton, Devon. 4233 Rebecca. Mk 1 Tourist Second Open. York, lot 30172, 1956. Photo: 21.09.2019. #Paignton #Devon #coach #railway

Arthur C. Clarke, The Wind from the Sun, Pan, 1983. Cover: Stephen Bradbury. Collection of stories written 1964-73. #ArthurClarke #StephenBradbury

Gordon C. Davies. #GordonDavies

Roy Cross. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. 14,570 built 1947-49 of which atleast 54 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #Mikoyan-Gurevich #BrookeBond

Pump House (Tower of London Shop), London. 1863 by Anthony Salvin; two bays to right added 1933. Projecting gables supported on corbelled brackets. Domestic style with Gothic influences. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #AnthonySalvin

Baker Stree Underground Station, London. Cast-iron screen with illuminated names of stations surmounted by clock, installed 1925 (1). Metropolitan Line station (2). Photos: 26.09.2024. #London #BakerStreet #underground #railway #station #RailwayStation

Mallaig, Scotland. 3767. Mk 1 Tourist Second Open. York, lot 30079, 1953. Cream & green, branded 'West Highland Line' with an IC prefix. To Glenfinnan Station Museum as a tea room, 1994. Photo: 05.07.1990. #Mallaig #Scotland #coach #railway

Arthur C. Clarke, The Wind from the Sun, Corgi, 1974-76 editions. Cover uncredited. Corgi SF Collector's Library purple stippled cover (note the 1974 edition had a blue stippled cover). Collection of stories written 1964-73. #ArthurClarke

Map of The Bar. From BattleTech: The Spider And The Wolf, FASA, 1986. #Battletech #spider #wolf #map

Uncredited. The Dynostar Spacelab. From Kit Pedlar & Gerry Davis, The Dynostar Menace, Souvenir Press, 1975. #Dynostar #spacelab #KitPedlar #GerryDavis #SouvenirPress

Roy Cross. Messerschmitt Me 163 Kome. Rocket-powered interceptor aircraft. c370 built 1941-44 of which 10 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #Messerschmitt #BrookeBond

Port of London Authority Building, London. 1912-22 by Sir Edwin Cooper. Photo: 06.07.2024. #London #EdwinCooper

Arding & Hobbs, St. John's Road, London. 1910 by James Gibson. Edwardian Baroque style. Large octagonal stone tower with florid dome with carved ovals with crown and four open pediments supported on composite columns. Photos: 26.09.2024. #London #JamesGibson #EdwardianBaroque

Bishops Lydeard, Somerset. W 3668. Great Western Railway Corridor Third. Swindon, lot 1313, 1922. Originally Churchward Third Corridor, 1910. Ambulance train France, 1918. Withdrawn 1956. Camping Coach 9888 at Blue Anchor. To Gwendraeth Valley Railway, 11/2022. #BishopsLydraed #railway #coach

Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth, Del ReyBallentine, 1986. Cover: Michael Whelan. Expansion of short story, If, 1958. #ArthurClarke #MichaelWhelan