Sport Collection (#29)

Row Boat Preparation
18th August 1927: Bailing out rowing boats in preparation for the Hammersmith Borough Regatta. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Point To Point Cars
31st March 1929: The car park at the Berks and Bucks Point to Point Meeting near Reading. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Snow Climb
December 1910: Climbers using ropes and pickaxes to climb a snowy bank in the Alps. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sunbeam Car
1st December 1913: The driver of a Sunbeam car which has broken 12 hour speed records at the Brooklands race track in England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Old Flyer
15th April 1907: Mr Hall with his model aeroplane, which he walked 94 miles with in order take part in the Aero Clubs Aeroplane Exhibition at Alexandra Palace, London

Ostend Beach
circa 1907: Holidaymakers on the beach at Ostend. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Vauxhall Motor Car
22nd August 1913: A Vauxhall motor car which is at Brooklands race track to attempt the 12 hour record. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Luncheon Party
17th February 1909: Racegoers break for refreshments during the Waterloo Cup stakes. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

RAC Dust Trials
1st July 1908: A racing car with anti-dust devices at the RAC Dust Trials at Brooklands race-track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Young Paddlers
circa 1907: Little girls paddling in the sea at Teignmouth, Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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)

Pushing The Boat Out
January 1923: Cambridge rowing crew pushing their boat into the river for a practice session. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Spiral Railway
June 1908: The spiral railway at the Franco-British Exhibition in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Franco-British Fair
June 1908: The visitors pack the stands round the band stand in the Elite Gardens at the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Isle Of Man
1st May 1907: An entrant in the Tourist Trophy race on the Isle of Man. (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)

Games Room
1909: The Billiards Room at the Municipal Institute in Battersea, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bird Fancier
1909: A falconer at the travel and sports exhibition at the Olympia exhibition halls in Kensington, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Racing Start
15th August 1931: One of the two flying-boats engaged in a race to the Red Sea and back, a Saunders- Roe A 7, about to take off from Felixstowe Seaplane Station, Kent. (Photo by A)

Schneider Entrant
19th August 1929: A Gloster Napier 6, one of the aircraft with which Britain hopes to retain the 1929 Schneider Trophy, at Calshot, Southampton. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Jack Johnson
September 1911: Jack Johnson of the USA, one of the greatest yet most unpopular Heavyweight boxers of all time, on his way to court in Bow Street surrounded by a huge crowd

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)

Aviation Meet
Motor Car stuck in mud on Aviation Ground at the Lanmark Avaition Meet

Henley Picnic
Spectators in punts on the Thames watching the Henley Regatta at lunchtime

Oban Regatta
12th September 1912: Lord Inverclydes yacht Emerald in Oban harbour during the Oban Regatta. Oban now hosts the annual Tennents West Highland Week

London Ski Jump
Competitors jump off a special superstructure at Hampstead Heath during the London Ski-jumping competition. The superstructure, 62 feet high, was specially erected for the competition

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)

Fencing Equipment
A collection of fencing equipment

Crevasse Crossers
December 1910: Three mountaineers crossing a crevsasse on the Pers Glacier in the Alps. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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

One-Legged Race
July 1916: A very literal one-legged race held during a garden party for wounded soldiers at Roehampton House. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Junior Car Club Race
August 1922: Contestants taking part in the Junior Car Club 200 mile race at Brooklands. (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)

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)

Alone In The Stands
A solitary spectator sitting in one of the stands at the opening of the Hard Court Tennis Championship in Bournemouth

Sand Racing
21st June 1913: Competitors in the South Wales and Cardiff Motor Cycle Speed Trials racing along the beach at Rest Bay Sands, Porthcawl. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Swimming Lesson
Two children, suspended in the water by rope and poles, are given a swimming lesson in the River Thames at Wallingford. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schneider Cup
Crowds watching the Schneider Trophy International Seaplane Race from Bournemouth pier. The race was won by Italian Guido Janello in his Savoia S13 plane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tea Party
Elderly ladies taking tea on an outing to Loughton, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bobsleigh Ride
A woman tobogganing down the Dorf Dimson bobsleigh run at St Moritz. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Duckshooter
A duckshooter stalking birds on a sledge with a punt gun, on the frozen waters of Crowbit Wash in the Fens. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Grand Prix Corner
Champoiseau in a Schneider taking a sharp turn at Moreuil, during the French Grand Prix. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands Relay
The start of a relay race at Brooklands racetrack. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Grahame-White
Claude Grahame-White, winner of the first International Air Race at Hendon, passing over waiting monoplanes at the meet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Large Ships
From left to right, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland (former Hamburg America liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria), the Alaunia

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