Field Gallery

The Sketch Ideal Home No. VI. Sports Without Broad Acres by

The difficult problem of how to enjoy games and field sports when you live in a block of flats has triumphantly solved. The sixth in the series of Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson. The illustrations from The Sketch depict ingenious space creating ideas for the spatially challenged home. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

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The Interport Field Gun Competition - Royal Navy

The Royal Navy's field gun competition is a contest between teams from various Royal Navy commands, in which teams of sailors compete to transport a field gun and its equipment over and through a series of obstacles in the shortest time. The "Inter-Port" or "Command" Competition was contested by teams from the Royal Navy annually, and was a popular item at the Royal Tournament until finishing in 1999. Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

British 25-pounder field gun by G. H. Davis

Considered at the time to be the best field gun in the world: the British 25-pounder. Diagrammatic drawings of a famous British weapon, illustrating its methods of working and its smooth and rapid traverse action. Date: 1942

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