Sport Collection (#27)

Balloon Contest
13th July 1912: A balloon contest at Hurlingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Beach Exercises
29th March 1929: A group of children playing at aerobics in the sea at Bognor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Speakers Corner
January 1912: Orators in Hyde Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Regents Park
18th August 1908: Children playing in the sand pits at Regents Park, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sand Pit
18th August 1908: Children playing in the sand pit at Regents Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

School Holiday
circa 1905: London school children fishing during the holidays; the envy of the crowd has caught a gudgeon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Retriever Trials
1st November 1912: The Horsham Retriever Trials - the meet at Peper Harrow, Godalming, Surrey. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Emptying Nets
1st September 1907: Fisherman at their nets at Sowleys Pond in Hampshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Track During Race
16th July 1913: The racetrack at Brooklands during the BMCRC Six Hours Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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)

Shorts Shamrock
1st April 1919: The Short Shamrock bi-plane which had to withdraw from the Daily Mail Transatlantic Competition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motor Boat Club Meet
circa 1913: Craft at the landing stage at the British Motor Boat Club Meet on the Thames at Kingston. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motor Boat Racing
10th September 1913: The motorboat Crusader, a British contestant in the International Motor Boat Races at Osborne Bay, Isle of Wight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Motor Boat
1st August 1905: Thorneycrofts shallow draught motor boat. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ballooning Race
25th May 1907: Ballons are brought out for the Ballooning Ranelagh Race for the Harbord Cup. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hurlingham Balloons
25th May 1911: A large crowd at Hurlingham for a balloon event. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Skiing By Pony
2nd January 1908: A skier being pulled by a pony. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sand Yachting
19th April 1927: A sand yacht at the Easter meeting of the New City Sand Yachting Club at Bognor Regis. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Balloon Jumping
circa 1927: Englands first tests of a new sport called balloon jumping. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fair Scene
circa 1925: A general view of the amusement park at Wembley Stadium, during the Exhibition opened by the King. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ascot Sunday
circa 1923: The photograph shows holiday makers boating down the Thames at Boulters Lock, on Ascot Sunday. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flying Boats
circa 1925: A flying boat ride at a fair on Londons Hampstead Heath. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Racer Rollercoaster
2nd May 1938: The undulating Giant Racer rollercoaster ride at Bellahouston Amusement Park in Glasgow. The amusement park formed part of the Empire Exhibition at Bellahouston Park which offered a

Wembley Re-Opens
1925: Visitors crossing a bridge at the re-opening of Wembley Stadium, north London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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)

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)

Essex Motor Club
30th August 1912: A crowd gathers at the garage of the Eagle Hotel for the start of the Essex Motor Clubs run to York. (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)

Hunting Beagles
4th October 1906: The Worcester Park Harriers hunt hares with their beagles. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Huntsgirl
October 1907: A young girl prepares to join the fox hunt at Caldscote Hall. (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)

Hunt Crowds
5th November 1909: Crowds at the Quorn Meet at Kirkby Gate. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bramham Hunt
12th October 1908: The Bramham Moor Hunt meet outside the Harewood Arms in preparation for the afternoons fox hunt. (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)

Rabbit Shoot
29th January 1908: Four men carrying dead rabbits return from their hunting at Burnham-on-Crouch. (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)

Postponed Match
11th December 1914: A variety artist dressed in costume with a sign around his neck notifying people of the postponement due to bad weather of the football match between Jockeys

River Hunt
circa 1910: Two members of the Dumfriesshire Otter Hounds follow their dogs along the river. Otter hounds have been bred for hunting since the 12th century

Bicester Meet
November 1908: The Bicester Hunt gathers for a day of fox hunting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Beachcombers
19th October 1936: Beachcombers at Brighton diligently searching for anything thrown up by the rough sea. (Photo by E. Dean/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)

Motor-Boat Club
May 1906: Members of the British Motor-Boat Club at Kingston. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motor Boats
5th May 1906: Boats from the British Motor Boat Club, sailing on the Thames at Kingston. (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)

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