It was taken by Brian Griffin and depicts a woman cutting grain in an East Anglian field, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire.
In 1972 the Ministry of Defence began to house historically important aircraft in the hangars, which became the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
In 1898 the Shifford Lock Cut was opened, controlling the flow of the river past Duxford.
After serving in France in mid 1940,he came to the UK and joined to No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron at Duxford as a P/O on 12 July 1940.
In June 2002, a brake failure on an Aero L-39 Albatross landing at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford Aerodrome caused the plane to run off the end of the runway and down the embankment on to the motorway.
Project Vitello was a military operation that transferred the 9.2-inch Mark X breech-loading gun at Spur Battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.
In 1981 the 9.2-inch gun at Spur Battery was dismantled and transferred to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, England, for preservation.
Techne branded products are now manufactured by the parent company Barloworld Scientific Ltd. From the time of its formation until 1999 Techne was located in Duxford vicarage near Cambridge.
The company plays an active role in many of the World’s top air shows including Jones Beach New York Air Show, Flying Legends, Duxford England, Aviation Nation, Nellis AFB, Rhode Island Air National Guard, Wings Over Houston Air Show, Texas, Thunder Over the Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey by flying as The Horsemen Aerobatic Team and recording event footage It exists today as one of the only dedicated aviation production company that owns World War II combat planes used for filming.