The figurehead from HMVS Nelson, previously the HMS Nelson built in 1814, and named in honour of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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The figurehead from HMVS Nelson, previously the HMS Nelson built in 1814, and named in honour of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
One of the anchors from HMS Sirius. HMS Sirius was the flagship of the First Fleet, the ships that brought the first European settlers to Australia. She was wrecked on Norfolk Island while landing supplies in 1790.
Musée d’Orsay, previously the Gare d’Orsay, a railway station that has been converted into an art museum.
A relic of the early days of the Great Western Railway, and Swindon. This silver model of a GWR Firefly Class locomotive served as a coffee pot in the Swindon Railway Station refreshment rooms in the 1840s when this class where to be seen between London and Bristol. Small burners were placed under the locomotive to keep the coffee warm. I’m not too sure how well it worked as the engineer of the GWR, IK Brunel, wrote to the concessionaire “I am surprised that you bought such bad roasted corn. I did not believe that you had such a thing as coffee in the place.“
Jeff Thompson’s corrugated iron clad HQ Holden Kingswood in Wellington’s Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. Maybe Holden wasn’t a lost brand in 2005, but the well loved, and hated, Kingswood badge was having been replaced by the Commodore in 1978.