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British Culture Collection (#20)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Ditched Seaplane

Ditched Seaplane
A ditched British seaplane sinking into the sea. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: The Big Guns

The Big Guns
October 1915: The British Army shows off captured German field guns in London. The signs in front state from which battle they were taken. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Trench Mortars

Trench Mortars
October 1915: The British Army show off captured German trench mortars in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Diver

Diver
circa 1900: A diver goes down from the salvage ship Blakey to the wreck of the British schooner Cape Horn off the coast of Chile to recover a cargo of sunken copper

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Diabolo Catch

Diabolo Catch
circa 1907: A woman catching the reel during the French game of Diabolo on a tennis court in Bournemouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Dog Trials

Dog Trials
circa 1908: A group of people watching dogs at the Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire Retriever Trials in Amersham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Diabolo Serve

Diabolo Serve
1907: A man serving during the French game Diabolo on a tennis court in Bournemouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Childrens Diabolo

Childrens Diabolo
1907: Two children playing the French game Diabolo watched by a group of adults in Bournemouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Travelling Cars

Travelling Cars
4th February 1948: A record shipment of 500 British cars of various makes, at Victoria Dock, London, waiting to be loaded into the SS Port Jackson, bound for Sydney and Melbourne. (Photo by J. A)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Launching Lifeboat

Launching Lifeboat
10th September 1933: The launch and inauguration of the new motor lifeboat (RNLB Charles Cooper Henderson) at Dungeness. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: War Aims Meeting

War Aims Meeting
August 1917: Welsh Liberal politician and Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, presiding over a war aims meeting at Queens Hall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Up It Comes

Up It Comes
21st November 1918: A British bi-plane being hoisted out of the water after an accident during the German surrender at Scapa Flow, the British naval base in the Orkneys. (Photo by A. R)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Scapa Flow

Scapa Flow
21st November 1918: Aeroplane being lifted from the sea after an accident during the surrender of German fleet at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys, the principal British naval base. (Photo by A. R)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Captain Scott

Captain Scott
August 1919: A memorial to English Antarctic explorer Sir Robert Falcon Scott in Waterloo Place, London. The statue was sculpted by his wife Kathleen, Lady Scott

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: TS Exmouth

TS Exmouth
July 1919: British naval Training Ship Exmouth in dock. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Nairana

Nairana
March 1919: The British warship HMS Nairana, a seaplane carrier converted from an incomplete freighter, at Rosyth. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Preparing To Dive

Preparing To Dive
March 1919: The British submarine K 15 preparing to dive at Rosyth in Scotland. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Caistor Lifeboat Men

Caistor Lifeboat Men
February 1908: Lifeboat men from Caistor near Yarmouth after being decorated by the visiting Czar of Russia. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: British Subs

British Subs
1914: British submarines B9, B10 and B11 in front of the white cliffs at Dover. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Christmas Parties

Christmas Parties
9th January 1930: Children enjoying themselves at a Christmas party in Southwark. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Burns At Horse Show

Burns At Horse Show
25th February 1913: British trade unionist John Burns watching the judging at the Shire Horse Show. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Donkey Riding

Donkey Riding
11th June 1908: Children riding donkeys on an outing to Epping Forest. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Guarding Trophies

Guarding Trophies
1908: Policemen standing guard over the trophies at the Easter race meeting at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Fashion In The Park

Fashion In The Park
21st April 1935: Current fashion is paraded past interested viewers in Londons Hyde Park. (Photo by E. Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Hose Cart Competition

Hose Cart Competition
circa 1905: A competitor takes part in the hose cart competition at Crystal Palace, during the Fire Brigades annual camp there. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Weighbridge

Weighbridge
28th June 1913: A P Bradleys Duo cycle car The Duce on a railway weighbridge, before the Cycle Car Club Hill Climb competition at South Harting Hill. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Cornish woman

Cornish woman
30th November 1908: A country woman at her home in Cornwall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Smoke Helmet

Smoke Helmet
circa 1908: A fireman from the London Fire Brigade, wearing a smoke helmet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Fire Cart

Fire Cart
circa 1905: A group of firemen sit on their fire cart at station headquarters. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Fire Fighters

Fire Fighters
30th October 1909: A fire engine and crew leave Greenwich Fire Station in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Dressed Costers

Dressed Costers
circa 1900: Costers dressed up in Kensal Rise, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: The Field Moving Off

The Field Moving Off
circa 1910: Warwickshire Hunt at Farnborough. Topical Special 431. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Brooklands Crowd

Brooklands Crowd
July 1907: Brooklands Motor Racing Track and a general view of the crowds. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: The Meet

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

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: The Field Moving Off

The Field Moving Off
1st February 1907: The Warwickshire Hounds. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Otter Hounds

Otter Hounds
circa 1905: A pack of dogs from the Cheriton Otter Hounds pursue their quarry in the river. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Grafton Hunt

Grafton Hunt
April 1905: Grafton Hunt steeplechase with a view of the Grandstand. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Horse Show

Horse Show
June 1914: The International Horse Show event. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Kitchener Inspects

Kitchener Inspects
1st March 1915: The parade of various sections of the New Army of 12, 000 men, recruited in Liverpool, south Lancashire and West Cheshire, opposite St Georges Hall

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Ride That Boat

Ride That Boat
10th November 1913: Sea Scouts in their boat which is being drawn by a horse during the Lord Mayors Show, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Manchester Regiment

Manchester Regiment
23rd March 1914: The Manchester Regiment on the march at Curragh, Ireland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Athol Aeroplane

Athol Aeroplane
2nd April 1910: The Blair Athol aeroplane at Eastchurch. It was designed by Dunne and Cody at the Avro Balloon Factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Climbing Aloft

Climbing Aloft
24th July 1911: A spectator climbs onto the roof of a car for a better view at the Harrogate leg of the Round Britain Air Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Brooklands

Brooklands
16th April 1910: The Hon Allen Boyle in flight on his Avis monoplane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: A Failed Flight

A Failed Flight
18th June 1910: Grahame White crashes his plane at Brooklands Motor Racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Ring-A-Ring Of Roses

Ring-A-Ring Of Roses
24th July 1908: Children at play in Loughton, Essex on Fresh Air Fund Day. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: British Entrants

British Entrants
4th September 1919: The two British entrants the Hawkers Sopwith and Nicholls Fairey drawn up side by side at East Cowes during the Schneider Trophy International Seaplane Race

Background imageBritish Culture Collection: Vintage Car Race

Vintage Car Race
22nd April 1910: Motor cars and spectators at Queen Eleanors Cross, Northampton, on the 10th anniversary of the 1, 000 miles trial. Lord Montague is in the car on extreme left



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