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This object is a stereo plotter which uses stereo photographs to determine elevations. The stereo...
The mould is in two pieces, the top part made of wood with metal banding...
There is a simple yet sad tale of how The Beaney came to acquire a...
A sample of the cable from Tunbridge Wells telephone exchange, the first municipal telephone system...
This is a Medway doble fishing boat called “May”. May is “clinker built” which means...
Traditional Khaki travelling suit of clothes for use in tropical climates. Made up of a...
Wooden crate, labelled ‘Birchington, Kent’ holding the skeleton of a giraffe. This giraffe was collected...
Taxidermy specimen of the Northern White Rhino. Made from the skin of an animal collected...
One of Percy’s cameras used to take some of the 30,000 photographs held in the...
The animals in the diorama were all collected by Percy Powell-Cotton during a series of...
An Edwardian card game.
This object is a First World War dummy head representing a Staff officer, used in...
This object is a set of medals awarded to James McCudden during his army career....
Envelope to an address in Germany dating from 1915 stamped “Undeliverable Enemy Country, Return to...
This object is a British First World War gas mask known as the PH hood....
Fragments of a First World War bomb dropped on the Drill Hall of HMS Pembroke...
Painting, oil on Canvas, 1918 depicting HMS Vindictive.
A painting of Charles Ernest Timmins, Bugler Royal Marine Light Infantry, at age 14 (Born...
A group of Lowland Gorilla taxidermy specimens.
Aveling and Porter were the largest manufacturers of traction engines and road rollers in the...
Pair of pottery book ends, one decorated with the figure of a sitting man and...
Museum record card for an elephant. Printed card with details of this one particular specimen,...
Pair of gender specific (one male, one female) headrests. They are manifestations of the differing...
Clocking-in machine. The Dockyard Time Clock was used daily by workers of the dockyard. Prior...
The only known surviving part from the aircraft Canopus, an ‘Empire Class’ flying boat built...
Doll, made from scraps of materials found by a girl and turned into a doll...
This model of a Kwanyama homestead was built in Angola by Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton,...
Portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge. It was developed by the British during the Second World War...
This object is a Butterfly Bomb, a German 2 kilogram anti-personnel sub-munition used by the...
British Mk XVII contact sea mine, the design of which dates from the Second World...
A pair of RAF D Type gauntlets as worn by aircrew in bombers or large...
Large model of Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar. This model is now housed...
Flag from HM Submarine Trenchant.
This object is a V2 Rocket (technical name Aggregat-4), the world’s first long-range guided ballistic...
The Spitfire (ser. No.: TB752) is an original Mk XVI. Built at Castle Bromwich in...
The Royal Navy’s last operational Second World War Destroyer. She served in the Second World War...
This object is a Centurion AVRE 165, which is a support variant based on the...
This oil on canvas painting: “Hop Picking No 1” by Dame Laura Knight. Painted in...
The prototype for the popular table football game.
A Margate Lifeboat. RNLB North Foreland is a Watson Class lifeboat, built by J Samuel...
Model B3 Sports 250cc Norman
The ‘O’ class submarine Ocelot, launched from Chatham in 1962 and represents the peak of...
Bagpuss is a retired star of a series voted ‘The Best Children’s TV Programme Ever’?...
Three sections of the Berlin Wall made of reinforced concrete from the area of the...
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