Images Dated 1st September 2015

A recent picture taken in Wellington Harbour shows a short Sunderland flying boat

A recent picture taken in Wellington Harbour shows a short Sunderland flying boat of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and a Fokker Friendship belonging to the National Airways Corporation of New Zealand. The Sunderland a Mark 5 was built at Rochester in Kent in 1944-45. This is thought to be the oldest operational type of aircraft in the world. The first one was built in 1937. The Friendship one of 8 operated on the internal routes of New Zealand by NAC was built by the Fokker company at Schiphol Suid Amsterdam in 1961

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Queen opens Jamaican Parliament. HM Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Philip, Duke

Queen opens Jamaican Parliament.
HM Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh beside her formerly opens the Jamaican Parliament in Gordon House, Kingston during the Royal three-day visit to Jamaica. Seen in the background left to right are Sir Michael Adeane, the Queen's Private Secretary ; Lady-in-waiting Marchioness of Abergavenny and Jamaican Equerry Major Trevor Robinson
8 March 1966

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Exiled Patriarch of Assyrians in London. Mar Shimun, the young Patriarch of the

Exiled Patriarch of Assyrians in London.
Mar Shimun, the young Patriarch of the Assyrians who has been exiled, is in London. He left his country when the British Government were asked to take him to a place of safety following the outbreak on the Iraq frontier and the alleged massacre of Assyrians. Mar Shimun, who received part of education at St Augustines College, Canterbury, is the spiritual and temporalhead of a remarkable body of Assyrians, about 25, 000 of whom are in Iraq. He has been allowed to travel on condition that he would not put forward the trouble of his people.
Photo shows ;, Mar Shimun talking with his London host, Canon John Douglas.
29 November 1933

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