This is Britain's Black Arrow Satellite Launcher circa 1966.
I find it reminiscent of so many of my old space toys like the red-tipped rockets of Project SWORD.
You can read more about Black Arrow and other British rockets like Blue Streak on the excellent Space UK org website, the source for the photograph.
You Tube also features some Black Arrow stuff and here's a short clip of the rocket's 50th Anniversary highlighting its connection with High Down on the Isle of Wight, now an abandoned launch site I was pleased to visit a few years ago.
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