Customs And Collection

Pancake Race
1927: A pancake race at Olney, an old English custom in the village. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Costume Box
1926: Guests at the Chelsea Arts Ball, London, having a fancy dress party in their box. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

New Year
1930: Streamers and champagne for revellers at a New Years party. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Christmas Stocking
circa 1930: The little girl is intrigued by what she has got in her stocking. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Easter Bunny
circa 1930: An Easter bunny carries easter eggs in a basket on his back while one woman adjusts his turn-ups and two others carry large easter eggs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Neptunes Daughter
circa 1930: Sailors dressed up as Neptune and his mermaid daughter for the traditional ceremony of crossing the international date-line. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Peanut Royalty
June 1927: Two London costermongers at a Costers Donkey Show, Newington Palace Fields, London, have peanuts sewn all over their suits. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

The Blarney Stone
1930: A girl lies flat on the ground, in order to kiss the Blarney Stone in Blarney Castle, Cork city. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Leviathan Launch
1857: The chain-drums and checking-gear used at the attempted launch of the Leviathan. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub. 1857 (Photo by Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Kara-Kara Trumpeters
25th April 1903: The King of Kara-Karas State Trumpeters at the Anglo-French Boundary Settlement Commission during the colonisation of Nigeria

Art Lovers
4th May 1928: A fashionably dressed group, with the women in fur-trimmed coats and the man in a top hat, leaving the Royal Academy after a Private Day View. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

Holy Relics
March 1946: Rosary beads and religious relics belonging to Catholic priest Leonid Federov who died at Viatka. He was trained as a missionary for service in Russia at the Pontificia Collegio Russo in

Original Anvil
1930: The original anvil on which marrying Joe Paisley would set his Bible when performing weddings in the blacksmiths shop at Gretna Green

Little Drummer Boy
circa 1955: A little boy, the youngest member of the Fife & Drum Corps of Chester, Connecticut, USA, doing a three-beat roll on a drum. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Congo Women
circa 1955: A group of tribeswomen from the Congo, one carrying a large basket on her head. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Naval Review
15th June 1953: The fleet assembles at Spithead for the Coronation Naval Review by Queen Elizabeth II. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Nurses Singing
circa 1930: Staff from University College Hospital, London rehearsing Christmas carols. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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