Sport Collection (#28)

Arriving For Meet
10th November 1905: Participants arrive for a meet of the Atherstone Hounds at Brownsorer. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Picking Flowers
August 1910: Women picking mountain flowers on Schynige Platte, at a height of 6, 800 feet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Watching Trials
11th August 1911: Spectators watching the Auto Cycle Union Reliability Trials at Blue Bank. (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)

Torpedo Boat
8th August 1904: Destroyer Durendel, a French torpedo boat, a participant in the Calais-Dover motor-boat race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Golfers At Bunker
7th October 1905: Golfers at the 5th bunker at Westward Ho Golf Links in Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rounding Bend
9th August 1911: Motorcyclists P Shaw and G G Piggott, riding a 6 hp Zenitha, round the bend at Sutton Bank during the Auto Cycle Union reliability trials. (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

Scottish Meet
20th November 1906: A meet of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hounds at Grogan Park. The hounds pick up the scent of a fox and chase it across the countryside before they catch their quarry

Motor-Boat Club
August 1905: Members of the British Motor-Boat Club in their motor-boats docked at Sea View on the Isle of Wight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Roundabout
1939: Cyclists overlooking a valley at Caterham in south east England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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

Breakfast Stop
5th August 1911: A motorcyclist competing in the Herts County AC rally leaves the Aberford breakfast stop. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Girl On A Donkey
1907: Miss Evelyn Wall riding a donkey. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A Day By The Sea
circa 1900: A seaside party, with fishing nets and umbrellas, prepare for a day on the beach. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motor Car Rally
2nd March 1905: A motor car rally at Ticehurst, Sussex, in 1905. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Boillot In Peugot
12th July 1913: Boillot takes a bend in his Peugot, near Bores, during the 1913 French Grand Prix. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands
June 1922: Four Motor cars racing at Brooklands, Surrey, England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Speed Trials
2nd May 1925: Spectators watching the 100 miles high speed reliability trials at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England, in progress at a hairpin bend

Motor Racing
5th June 1926: 100 miles high speed reliability trials by the Junior Car Club at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England. A competitor negotiating one of the hairpin bends

Junior Car Club
5th June 1926: Motor car racing at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England. Competitors running to their cars for the start of 100 mile High Speed Reliability Test by the Junior Car Club

Brooklands
August 1922: Two motor cars racing at Brooklands, Surrey, England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Speed Trial
2nd May 1925: 58 light cars starting the 100 miles high speed reliability trials at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Paddington Pool
January 1909: Paddington Public Baths, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Henley Regatta
30th June 1926: Crowds at the Henley regatta watch the rowing race from the banks of the Thames. (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hairpin Race
September 1925: Small engined racing cars lined up for a motor-obstacle race at Brooklands. They have to navigate 130 hairpin bends in 200 miles at an average of 80mph

Snowdon Climb
17th April 1933: A group of women wearing the Welsh national costume look at the view from the summit of Snowdon, North Wales. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Racing Cars
6th June 1907: Racing cars with their drivers at Brooklands racing track before competing in the second heat of the Marcel Renault Plate. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Open Air Skating
1st February 1908: A busy open-air skating rink with a spectators stand in the Swiss valley town of Davos. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

French Grand Prix
13th July 1913: Morgan MacMinnies passes the grandstand on his last lap in the French Grand Prix. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Holiday Crowds
June 1922: Holiday crowds on Pier Hill, Southend. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dinghies Sailing
June 1923: Two dinghies at full sail at a Royal Canoe Club spring meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Swimming
July 1922: Crowds watching the swimming and diving at Surrey Docks, London (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dover Beach
9th June 1929: Motorboats at Dover harbour before the start of the cross channel outboard motorboat race to Calais and back. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Big Bowler
18th August 1948: A A Keech in action during the first round match in the Pairs Championship of the English Bowling Association Amateur National Championships at the Paddington Bowling

Football Chimp
19th August 1955: Joe the chimpanzee preparing for the football season. (Photo by Monty Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cowes Regatta
August 1923: A race during the regatta at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Resolute Yacht In Buoy
July 1920: Yacht Resolute (in centre of life buoy on steamer Graham ) competing during the second race of the American Cup

Brooklands Paddock
1926: The paddock at Brooklands racetrack at Weybridge in Surrey. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cowes Crowd
6th August 1928: A crowd on the sea front during the Cowes Regatta on the Isle of Wight. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Speedy Sands
18th June 1922: Drivers attempt to break the world speed record on Saltburn Sands in Yorkshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

English Bowls
26th August 1938: Mrs JE Tomblin in play during the final of the Englishwomens national Bowwling Championships at Wimbledon Park, London. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Policemans Walk
22nd July 1939: Metropolitan Police Athletics Championships at Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey. 2 mile walk in progress. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ju Jutsu Session
1906: A couple practising Japanese Ju-jutsu techniques. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Crevasse Crossers
December 1910: Three mountaineers crossing a crevsasse on the Pers Glacier in the Alps. (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)

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