Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    BorBK2/9/1
  • Title
    R31: A British six engined (later five engined) wooden rigid, patterned on the Schuttle-Lanz SL 8 Class 1916. Two ships of this type were built, the first flying just before the end of the war. Although the R31 was structurally unsatisfactory, her modified sister ship was considered quite successful.
  • Date free text
    1918 - 1919
  • Production date
    From: 1918 To: 1919
  • Scope and Content
    1: Airship over Bedford. No.1. showing a troop of soldiers marching over the town bridge (2 copies)2: Airship over Bedford. No.2. showing a steam yacht on the river by the Town and Country Club (2 copies) [copy print at Z50/9/310]3: Airship over Bedford. No.3. view from Cleat Hill (2 copies)4: Airship over Bedford. No.4. over De Parys Avenue (2 copies)5: Airship over Bedford. No.5. (2 copies of finished photo and one copy of an earlier attempt, the second copy of which is BorBK 2/9/1/15)6: Airship over Bedford. No.6. Newnham Lane (4 copies)7: Airship over Bedfordshire. No.7. (2 copies)8: Airship over Bedford. No.8. (2 copies)9: Airship over Bedford. No.10. with boy in foreground (2 copies)10: Airship over Bedford. No.11 with 3 small children in foreground (2 copies)11: Airship over Bedford. No.12 view of underside (2 copies)12: Airship over Bedford, close up13: Main picture from which BorBK 2/9/1/10 was taken (2 copies)14: R31 flying over fields. The four children who appear in BorBK 2/9/1/9 and BorBK 2/9/1/10 are standing in the foreground15: Another copy of BorBK 2/9/1/516: Photograph from which BorBK 2/9/1/14 was taken (2 copies)17: Airship over allotments. Trees the same as those in BorBK 2/9/1/5 and 2/9/1/15, but airship has turned round (2 copies)18: Photograph from which BorBK 2/9/1/6 was taken (2 copies)19: R31 over farmhouse (2 copies)20: R31 in flight (2 copies)
  • Exent
    No. of pieces: 20
  • System of arrangement
    Many of the pictures were originally produced as postcards and have the series number on them, therefore they have been arranged in this order where possible. Post bound with BorBK2/9/2.
  • Format
    post-binder
  • Level of description
    item
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