Our log book represents quite possibly the only surviving documentary record of the arrangements to get Her Majesty and her Household back to the UK after the death of King George VI on 6 February 1952. Help us make our Diamond Jubilee Pound-a-Pixel Charity Challenge a huge success by buying and donating your share of this piece of history to the Royal Air Force Museum - and support some really worthy causes at the same time!
Kenya Royal Household Trip: February 1952
Pound-a-Pixel Charity Challenge
Our log book represents quite possibly the only surviving documentary record of the arrangements to get Her Majesty and her Household back to the UK after the death of King George VI on 6 February 1952. We've been researching this for the last few years: the operation had to be organised in a great hurry, and there is no operations record (which is not unusual for the period) and also nothing in the Royal Archive at Windsor Castle. It is thus a very valuable and historic document, and belongs in the Royal Air Force Museum.
I travelled to the UK and took the entire log book collection, including this one, to the RAF Museum in Hendon, on 8 February 2012, during the week of the 60th anniversary of the flight. Currently the collection is in potential acquisition status, i.e. I am still the owner.
Will you help buy a little piece of this historic document for the Museum as a Diamond Jubilee gift to Her Majesty, so that it can be kept in safety, where it belongs? All your purchases go straight to charity.
Here's how it works:
- Click on the Help Buy Our Log Book button
- You will be directed to our pixel wall, a copy of the image above broken up into blocks each containing 4 pixels (so the minimum donation is 1 block, or £4). Unpurchased pixels are overlaid with another image.
- Follow the Buy Pixels prompts.
- Click to select one block of pixels, or click and drag to select more.
- You will be asked for your email address (so we can acknowledge your donation and enter you in our Surprise Prize draw).
- You will then be routed to the JustGiving charity engine for payment. We are supporting four charities in different proportions, and you will be directed automatically to the correct fundraising page. You will at no stage be asked to give Burning Blue any payment and we do not collect or store your credit or debit card details. (If you would like to help contribute to project expenses, there is a button on this page, but no pixels are associated with this.)
- Once you have made your payment, the pixels you purchased will be allocated to your email address. A little piece of this document will belong to you, and the pixels will show up as purchased on the wall.
Thank you!
