Friday 2 September 2016

Glasgow - Kelvingove Art Gallery & Museum

Spitfire LA198 flew with 602 (City of Glasgow) Auxiliary Squadron RAF between 1947 and 1949. LA198 is a mark F21 developed towards the end of 1944. In May 1939, 602 had been the first auxiliary squadron to be equipped with Spitfires. At the end of the Second World War the squadron was disbanded, only to be reformed a year later. They continued to fly Spitfires for the next 12 years. 
LA198 crashed on landing at RAF Horsham St Faith in Norfolk on 22nd July 1949. It became a ‘gate guard’ , firstly at RAF Locking then RAF Lechars. It went into storage in 1989, being restored in 1998. After restoration it initially went on display at The Museum of Transport, Glasgow. In July 2006 it was moved to its current location, The Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum.
 
Spitfire LA198
Kelivingrove Art Gallery  & Museum

The Kelvingrove  opened in 1901, as the Palace of Fine Arts for the Glasgow International Exhibition held in that year.
 
Kelvingrove
Glasgow International Exhibition 1901
 
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
 


Kelvingrove  Art Gallery Museum

The museum contains a collection of arms and armour. It includes unique armour for man and horse made for William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, c1550.


Kelvingrove  Art Gallery & Museum
Armour Collection