Jack Kirby

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Associate Director of Collections Services at Science Museum Group, walker, fan: maps, culture, heritage, local distinctiveness. Gay, use hearing aids. Views own

Rows of historic cars and buses in a bright and clean warehouse environment
A tiled coat of arms on a brown brick wall. There is a shield on a pale yellow background and letters in blue 'St. M. B. C.' Below is a street sign: 'Transept Street NW1 | City of Westminster'
Sign: This cup and ring marked rock is protected as a monument of national importance under the Ancient Monuments Acts 1913-53 | Ministry of Public Buildings & Works
Sign pointing to Snowshill Manor with old style The National Trust logo
Sign: Ancient Monument | St Ninian's Cave ->
Sign: Belas Knap Long Barrow | Ancient Monument
'The News From Dublin', a book of stories by Colm Tóibín.
An engraved stone plaque set into a carved stone end of a structure. It reads "Vestry of St Pancras / This stone was fixed on the 11th day of August 1877..." followed by names of people involved
An explanation that the artwork was purchased by Centro from Ronald Rae's Sheffield exhibition in 1995 and installed in 1998.
An ornate street lamp with a very large base, and a square stone column topped with a stone pineapple and bearing inscribed distances in miles to other places
A bedroom in an historic house, with a four poster bed, a chest and a writing desk and chairs. The window has stained glass panels as well as clear glass. There are dark wood panels on some of the walls and by the window.
A field with long grasses, a path flanked by bushes to the right and trees on the horizon.
An historic tram being moved though a very large doorway into a large space in a modern building
A large model of a town centre, mounted vertically on a wall, with colourful and strangely shaped model buildings and a luminous band around the edge
Two hands wearing blue nitrile gloves writing with a pen on a red label with a yellow sticker with a warning triangle
View from a high point with snow on the ground over large green fields with stone walls, under a blue sky. There are small reservoirs in the middle distance and more hills on the horizon.
An information board leaning at an angle next to a path in front of trees.
A view across a valley with fields to woods and moorland in the distance, under a blue sky.
Moorland landscape with woodland around an extensive reservoir in the middle distance
A tree with extensive balls of mistletoe
A set from a Wallace and Gromit film showing a museum gallery with the character of Wallace hanging above a central gemstone on a plinth.
Tomb of Oscar Wilde, protected by glass panels
Drain cover with inscriptions 'Joseph Berry' and 'Withington Local Board'
A single span iron bridge with a conical pink concrete cooling towers to the right, set in a wooded valley
View across the dashboard of a car. A narrow strip of road has sand and water very close to it
A railway station dateline with above it two very large double arrow logos next to LED advert screens with wayfinding signage in between.
A modern footbridge across two railway tracks at a station, painted grey with glazed and roofed walkway with vertical and diagonal metal bracing visible. The lift towers behind have a clerestory on top of them.
Sign Birkenhead Tunnel 320 yards ahead, red circle containing a stylised goods vehicle with a square orange body, letter D, Prohibited traffic follow Chester (A41).
A map on tiles showing railway lines across the north of England, headed NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY. In a frame of orange-brown tiles, mounted on a stone wall. There is a small interpretation panel below the map.
A tall brown brick building in art deco style, with a stepped top section. There are bright green doors at street level.
A wooden bodied railway wagon with partially open sides, painted brown.
A sign with a London Borough Barnet 1980s logo and words NO BALL GAMES
Rail Alphabet sign Way Out. Behind on a wall is a sign Oxford with green GWR logo.
A cairn on moorland under a blue sky with some white cloud.
Roadsigns by a canal bridge: 7T prohibited, No Track Laying Vehicles, Except buses up to 8 tonnes
A tractor with two people on the back being followed by a running dog, crossing a vast expanse of wet sand with the coastline on the horizon
A street scene with a tall column similar to the bottom part of a lamp post, painted green with words Finchley District Council picked out in gold
Square cast drain cover set in a road with letters H U D C
Circular cast inspection cover with letters FUDC, set in pavement
A clear CD jewellery case, with a sleeve reading Perfect Day, and below all profits to BBC Children in Need. There are 30 small images taken from the song video, the first showing a garden and the other 29 showing famous performers from Lou Reed to Tom Jones. The BBC logo and Pudsey Bear also appear.
Interpretation panel headed The Peat Moors: Peat industry and railways. There is a photo of a locomotive in a ditch. A subheading says A desperate dash. The body text says: On the foggy morning of 26th August 1949, a small peat train got stuck crossing the main line. The driver ran up the track to warn the driver of the 8.05 from Glastonbury but he was too late. The resulting crash sent the passenger locomotive plunging into the South Drain. Fortunate there were no casualties, but the mainline locomotive couldn't be lifted out in one piece and was salvaged in sections.
Diorama of tractor ploughing (1917) with Ford 1917 model tractor and model of Oliver No.7 two-furrow plough (scale of models 1:12)
A widened stretch of cycle path
Hoar frost (hair-like ice crystals) on a gorse bush
Plain headstone with name 'GERTRUDE STEIN' in gold. The grave is covered in small brown leaves
A LCD screen mounted within a bus shelter. The British Rail double arrow logo is twice reproduced inaccurately reversed in red against a black background. The words Rail Departures are in red above times and status of train departures: 10:38 Sheffield On time 10:39 Manchester Piccadilly On time
The word RAILTRACK in a black serif typeface, bronze sans serif typeface, and black sans serif typeface
Looking from a bridge over the River Thames, with another bridge in the foreground and one just visible in the distance where the river bends. There is a tower block on the left (south) bank and two large cranes off the right (north) bank. The sky is grey
Looking across a grassy field with former gateposts in the foreground (there is no gate or wall across the field). In the distance is a patchwork of fields and woodland. The sky is grey and hills on the horizon are indistinct and hazy.
An elaborate sundial mounted above a pointed doorway on a stone building
Copy of London Town: London County Council Staff Gazette, March 1961. Cover photo of a sculpture of a mother and child with a real mother and child. The child's hand reaches out to the sculpture.
Sunset setting behind a tree over a snowy valley
Flooded fields stretching into the distance, reflecting clouds and a blue sky. The sun is behind a cloud.
A wide path between trees and low scrub, descending into a valley across fields. The trees are growing in plastic sheaths
Looking up a steep bowl shaped slope partly covered by vegetation, seen through mist
White outline of Christmas tree branches on a blue background, with message printed in black in block capitals 'Greetings for Christmas and the New Year'
An octagonal bell tower with tile roof, wooden upper stage, half timber ed front and brick archway
An ornate old electrical distribution pillar, a black metal box with moulded decorative design, some picked out in yellow, and topped with a finial
Yellow crown and three short notched seaxes vertically on a red background in a shield, and word Middlesex in yellow below on an unpainted metal vehicle body
Two parallel rows of stones spaced a few metres apart on moorland, with a distant view over landscape with wood covered hills, under a cloudy grey sky