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Recently added photos include this one of a relay race at Brooklands
‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ as they say, and this is certainly the case for the Brooklands Museum Collection. The photographic record of Brooklands is invaluable to helping us to learn about the history of the site and the amazing people who worked and played here, and to convey these stories to our visitors. Two recent new additions to the collection have made a significant contribution to our existing archive and will no doubt feature in exhibitions or illustrate stories in the Bulletin in the future.
The first is a collection of almost 100 photographs covering a wide selection of mostly motoring subjects ranging from staged press photographs to casual snapshots. As well as those featuring the big names of Brooklands in marquee races, some detail interesting events that used the circuit in unusual ways such as relay races or racing on the access roadways surrounding the circuit. Others shed light on social groups among the Brooklands drivers as they are snapped in friendly conversation, as well as showing them in action behind the wheel.
The second new addition to our photographic collection is an album of aerial views of Brooklands produced
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Vickers’ aerial photos show the development of the site
for Vickers Aviation around the second half of the 1920s. It bears the Vickers Limited Weybridge logo embossed onto its cover and naturally focuses on the aviation-focused parts of the site at the time, including the airfield and a set of images around the Vickers works. However, it also captures features of the
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racing circuit alongside the main subject of each photograph, including the Fork Grandstand and the Motoring Village as it grows around the time of the two British Grands Prix, building up a picture of how Brooklands as a whole developed over time.
Andrew Lewis
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