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Anticipation Collection (page 4)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: The Meet

The Meet
10th November 1905: The Atherstone hounds at Brownsover. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Brooklands

Brooklands
July 1907: Bookmakers are busy at Brooklands motor racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Before Take Off

Before Take Off
5th August 1912: Salmet flying at Southend. A crowd watch the Bleriot monplane prepare for takeoff. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Henley Trophies

Henley Trophies
1907: The Trophy table for the Henley Regatta. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Kite Flying

Kite Flying
1908: Man launching a kite on Wimbledon Common, while a group of children look on. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Motorcycle Line-Up

Motorcycle Line-Up
24th March 1913: Contestants for the second motorcycle race line up at Brooklands, amidst a crowd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Piggy-Back Race

Piggy-Back Race
1st December 1905: Members of the Salvation Army farm colony at Hadleigh prepare to take part in a piggy-back race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Colliery Disaster

Colliery Disaster
February 1908: A crowd waiting anxiously outside the perimeter fence of Hampstead Colliery for survivors of a disaster in the mine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Queuing Miners

Queuing Miners
circa 1906: Chinese miners queuing for food rations at their colliery. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Ready For The Off

Ready For The Off
circa 1920: Hot air balloons about to take off. The name Gordon Bennett, a wealthy American journalist who was a sponsor of ballooning, is clearly displayed on two of them. (Photo by M)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Baseball Crowd

Baseball Crowd
A crowd at a baseball match in New York. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Hounds Arriving

Hounds Arriving
A pack of hounds pouring off a railway wagon at Aston Hall, Nottingham

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Surrender

Surrender
21st November 1918: The German battleship the Hindenburg surrendering at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys, the principal British Naval base, seen from a British ship. (Photo by A. R)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Queue Of Shoppers

Queue Of Shoppers
28th June 1928: A queue of shoppers, stretching round a corner, outside Messrs Mentones department store on Oxford Street, London, waiting for the summer sale to open

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Canadian Recruits

Canadian Recruits
1st September 1915: A crowd of eager Canadians outside Toronto Town Hall, during a military recruitment campaign. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Biplane To Take Off

Biplane To Take Off
April 1911: Crowds watching the aviator Gilmour about to take off in a biplane at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Mayfly Launch

Mayfly Launch
12th May 1911: The first naval airship, the Mayfly in her hangar before launch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Airplane Testing

Airplane Testing
8th August 1912: Large crowd watchng the Army areoplane tests on Salisbury Plain. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Last Chance To See

Last Chance To See
July 1921: Hopefuls queue for the last performances of the hit musical Chu Chin Chow at His Majestys Theatre, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Ski Jumping

Ski Jumping
February 1923: Ski jumper Accola Rene in action during the ski championships at Grindelwald, Switzerland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Motorcycles Line Up

Motorcycles Line Up
11th December 1908: Ready to start racing: three Oxford undergraduates on motorcycles at Brooklands racetrack. From left to right, A K Wilkie, M B MacKenzie and Ds McMinnies

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Junior Tourist Trophy

Junior Tourist Trophy
19th May 1914: Hugh Mason is off at the start of the junior Tourist Trophy race on the Isle of Man (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Cars In Enclosure

Cars In Enclosure
1st June 1912: Motor cars arranged in the new enclosure for the first time, at Ascot. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Billingsgate

Billingsgate
circa 1952: Billingsgate fish market with lorries on the quayside loaded with crates. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Silhouette of gekko

Silhouette of gekko
Silhouette of gecko on banana leaf

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Arab man standing in sand dunes near Dubai

Arab man standing in sand dunes near Dubai

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Group Of Six Hounds Facing The Camera Dogs From Th

Group Of Six Hounds Facing The Camera Dogs From Th
UNITED STATES - Circa 1950s: Group Of Six Hounds Facing The Camera Dogs From The Kirkwood Kennels In Berwyn Pa Eager Ready To Hunt. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Christmas tree and gifts

Christmas tree and gifts
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Christmas tree surrounded by presents. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Good Youngsters

Good Youngsters
20th June 1953: The Good quadruplets, five-year-old Jennifer, Bridget, Elizabeth and Frances with their big sister, seven-year-old Susan, standing on a cars running-board, ready to go to school

Background imageAnticipation Collection: bowling strike on the road

bowling strike on the road

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Consultation

Consultation
Two people consulting with an oracle in ancient Greece, circa 600 BC. The priestess (right) is predicting the future while in a state of trance. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Ready For Action

Ready For Action
1870: Gun battery directed over Paris at Fort D Audervilliers during the Franco-Prussian war. (Photo by Alphonse Liebert/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Hungry Victorian man anticipating a suckling pig for dinner

Hungry Victorian man anticipating a suckling pig for dinner
A hungry-looking and overweight Victorian gentleman contemplating his dinner - a suckling pig. From Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocksas Hunt.a by Rs Surtees and illustrated by John Leech

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Chemical Lecture

Chemical Lecture
A scientific demonstration in front of an audience. Original Artwork: Cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Mermaids At Brighton

Mermaids At Brighton
Women venturing into the water from bathing machines drawn up to the sea at Brighton. They are clad in voluminous bathing dresses

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Fighting Caravans

Fighting Caravans
1931: Mules and horses stand in readiness to haul early western freight wagons for a scene in the Paramount film Fighting Caravans. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Barred Bathers

Barred Bathers
10th May 1959: Children waiting to go bathing in Hyde Park, London. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Eleven O Clock

Eleven O Clock
3rd September 1939: Crowds looking up at Big Ben as it strikes the eleventh hour, the time of the expiration of Britains ultimatum to Germany. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Waiting For The Train

Waiting For The Train
3rd December 1939: Anxious watchers at the barrier of Ipswich railway station waiting for the LNER Evacuation Special train to arrive bringing evacuees to safety from London. (Photo by H. F)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Landfall

Landfall
Passengers on the QE2 line the rails as the ship arrives in New York. (Photo by Stroud/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Hunting Party

Hunting Party
15th January 1930: Members of a hunting party outside the Becket country hall, Shrivenham, Berkshire during the Old Berkshire Hunt. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Coming To America

Coming To America
Image shows passengers and immigrants on the B and C decks towards the aft of the White Star liner RMS Olympic (sister of Titanic) as she sits in port and they await processing, New York, late 1920s

Background imageAnticipation Collection: Brushing Llamas

Brushing Llamas
circa 1905: A group of llamas at the zoo wait in line to be groomed by their keeper. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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