Country Collection (#19)

Bleriot Memorial
A memorial on the cliffs of Dover to French aviation pioneer Louis Bleriots first crossing of the English Channel. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lead Picking
Lead picking in the snow in Derbyshire, where the famous mineral fluorspar is found. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Scotch Trials
Cars line up for the hill climb during the Scottish Trials (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Reliability Trials
During the reliability trials race between Nottingham and Newcastle, vehicles pass cattle and pedestrians by the roadside on the way into Wetherby, Yorkshire

Souvenir Hunters
23rd September 1916: Visitors to a Zeppelin crash site in Essex search for fragments of the debris in a turnip field. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cycle Scouts
6th September 1912: Soldiers on manoeuvres, acting as cycle scouts, at Hitchin, Hertfordshire ride down a country lane on bicycles. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Manoeuvres
29th April 1913: Batteries of Artillery riding up to the firing line on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire during manoeuvres. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

On The Road
8th March 1919: The pack arrive along a country road for the Grafton Hunt, Northamptonshire. (Photo by Nichols/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rally Rolls
June 1906: Spectators on a hillside bend watch a Rolls-Royce car taking part in the Scotch Trials. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Trial In Scotland
June 1908: A car taking part in the RAC and SAC Trial approaches Frinagow Hill, on the Glasgow to Aberdeen run. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lead Pickers
December 1909: A team of fluorspar lead pickers at the Blue John Cavern. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Scottish Race
June 1906: A Martini car driving at speed in the Scottish Trials. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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

Hunting Party
circa 1909: A sleigh and hunting party on its way out of Stockholm. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Car Camp
July 1923: Cars at Sinclair Pass in the Canadian Rockies. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Waterloo Cup
March 1924: Participants in the Waterloo Cup competition on Mah-a-Buacaill course. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Execution
1st June 1915: An executed spy, lies dead and blind-folded under a cross. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motoring Club
14th March 1914: R J Hartmann in his Benz driving up Kop Hill in the Essex Motoring Club Open. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aerial Observation
circa 1914: A spotter biplane flying over French troops firing at the enemy from a trench. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Beet Field
1st October 1913: A newly cleared sugar beet field in Norfolk. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Manoeuvres
1911: French army manoeuvres. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Race At Windermere
August 1912: Runners take part in the Grassmere Sports meet by climbing the wall after the start of the Guides race at Windermere, in the Lake District. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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

Defeated Chinese
12th June 1922: This trainload of defeated Chang Tso-lins Fengtien troops was photographed passing through a station in China during that countrys Civil War

Liner Departs
25th July 1925: 100 teachers depart for Canada on the liner Empress of Scotland, for an educational tour of the country. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pre-Race Gathering
28th June 1912: A crowd gathers at the start of the Isle of Man Junior Tourist Trophy Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Badger Hunting
October 1908: A whip with a dead badger killed by the hounds during the Grafton Hunts cub hunting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Spectator Sport
1st April 1907: A group of hunters watch from the banks of the river during a meet of the Hawkston Otter Hounds. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bicester Hunt
1st March 1907: Riders from the Bicester Hounds pursue their quarry over the fields near Cadycot. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cottesmere Hunt
1st November 1908: The hounds and riders of the Cottesmere Hunt out on a meet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Otter Hunt
1911: A hunting party following the Northern Counties Otter Hounds across a river to reach the kill. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Otter Hounds
1911: The Northern Counties Otter Hounds at work on the edge of a river, trying to find the kill. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Climbing Rural Road
11th August 1911: Motorcyclists with an Indian sidecar climbing up a country road during the 3rd day of the Auto Cycle Union Reliability Trials. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mercedes In Yorks
August 1911: A 75 Mercedes taking part in a Yorkshire Automobile Club hill climbing competition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Harriers Riding
23rd October 1906: Peppard Farmers Harriers riding in single file in the countryside at Wyfold Grange. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Water Course
9th August 1911: A motorcyclist tackles the water course during the Auto Cycle Union Reliability Trials. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Crossing River
August 1911: After attending a Northern Counties Otter Hounds Fair, a group of people cross a river in the countryside. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Atherstone Hounds
10th November 1905: The Atherstone Hounds during a meet at Brownsorer. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Grafton Hounds
4th January 1905: Grafton Hounds during a meet at Prestbury, Buckinghamshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Scottish Meet
May 1906: A meet of the Dumfriesshire Otter Hounds at Shieldhill, Dumfries and Galloway in south-west Scotland. The groups title, Otter Hounds

Motor Club Cars
April 1911: The opening meet of the Essex Motor Club, at Layermarney. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Swans
circa 1909: Two gamekeepers tagging swans. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

New a Uniform
June 1909: An Automobile Association (a) scout wearing the new a uniform, standing beside his bicycle in a country road. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shirley Hill Crowd
6th August 1912: a crowd, including schoolchildren, on an outing to Shirley Hills. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Church Move
10th September 1926: Canadian construction workers moving a church at Calgary, Canada. (Photo by W. J. Oliver/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cycle Battalion
May 1915: Men of the Bersagliere (Italian rifle battalion) on the move across country with their bicycles. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tea Break
October 1906: Workers who are constructing the Brooklands, Surrey racing circuit having a coffee break at a mobile canteen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hurlingham Balloons
Hot air balloons prepared for a race at Hurlingham sports ground, near London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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