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Harrow School in 1934A view up toward some of the principal buidings of Harrow School
Boats at Molesey LockBoats and boaters at Molesey Lock on the Thames at Surrey. Though larger vessels must use the lock on the right, smaller boats can be hauled over the rollers, to the left
Busy Summer Morning on The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Date: 1914
Bargate Below Bar, Southampton, Hampshire. Date: circa 1920s
Tilting in canoes at Wargrave Regatta on the River Thames in Wargrave in Berkshire. Date: 1901
Middlesex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898
Finsbury Park BoatersThe first large pleasure boat launch on the lake at Finsbury Park, north London, England
Straw hats return to favour in 1930 - factory in LutonStraw hats return to favour! Luton, the centre of the straw hat industry had suffered from lean years since 1914; khaki was the wear of choice until 1918
Vieux MarcheursA series of side profile illustrations of old men wearing different kinds of hats including boaters, bowlers and top hats. Date: circa 1901
Harvard Try-Out BargeA twenty-oar barge used at Harvard University to select and train boat crews. The coach can walk up and down the centre deck. Date: circa 1925
Conservative Party Conference 1979A stall at the 96th Conservative Party Conference, Blackpool, October 1979, selling Maggie rock and plastic straw boaters with a ribbon stating, We all won with Maggie'
Exterior view of Harrow School, showing boys wearing their boaters. Date: 1896
Late Victorians children's fashion 1899Girls and boys linked hands, wearing the latest in Victorian clothing
Boulters Lock - on Ascot Sunday, packed with rowing boats in the lock on the River Thames at Maidenhead. Date: 1901
Boulters Lock - on Ascot Sunday, waiting their turn outside Boulter s. Date: 1901
A general view of Wargrave Regatta on the River Thames in Wargrave in Berkshire, relaxing in long rowing boats. Date: 1901
British colonial group in India. Date: circa 1900s
Bijou TheatreExterior view of the Bijou Theatre, unknown location, where the Reg Jecks and Vera Vivian Variety Theatre Company were appearing at the time. circa 1920s
Three men on a bench, Littlehampton, West Sussex. 1900
Manchester United FC team, FA Cup Winners 1909Group photo, Manchester United FC team, FA Cup Winners in 1909. 1909
Recruits queueing up to enlist, WW1Recruits queueing up to enlist at the start of the First World War. 1914
W G Graces Jubilee Match, Lord s, 1898The Gentlemens Cricket Team, W G Graces Jubilee Match, Lords Cricket Ground, 1898. 1898
The England Cricket Team, Lord s, 1899The England Cricket Team, Lords Cricket Ground, 1899. 1899
Surrey Cricket Team 1898. 1898
Somersetshire Cricket Team 1897. 1897
Nottinghamshire Cricket Team 1898. 1898
Lord Sheffields Australian Cricket Team, 1891-2. circa 1891
Essex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898
England Cricket Team, Lord s, 1896. 1896
Crowd at The Oval Cricket Ground, LondonPart of the crowd at The Oval Cricket Ground, London. circa 1898
Four men on a balcony in Ferrol, Galicia, SpainFour smartly dressed men on a balcony in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain. 1912
Yachting costume 1897Woman wearing a yachting outfit with gigot sleeved jacket, ruffle shirt and petit boaters hat. Date: 1897
Womens oversized sack coats 1873Stealing the palladium or scouring it? A group of young woman on holiday in March in their oversized coats. 1873
SAINT CLOUD MILLINERSBoaters, bonnets and other hats displayed in a milliners at Saint Cloud, Paris Date: 1908
Italians Arrive New YorkThe arrival of 2, 447 Italian immigrants at New York Date: 1923
Straw boater schoolchildren, StratfordChildren in school uniform, including straw boater hats, walk to school in Straftford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990
Changing the guard - St. Jamess Palace, London - drawing quite a crowd of interested onlookers even back in the 1900s! Date: 1914
Fred Collins Beach Pavilion Entertainers - Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth - 1917 season. Date: 1917
Colonial passengers in rickshaw, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)Colonial passengers in a rickshaw outside Acland House, Colombo Commercial Co Ltd, Lillie Street, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Ayres and Smith straw boater hat advertisement, 1931Advertisement for the English Rustic straw hat created in a very specific, traditional plait. Date: 1931
CMS Grammar School, Freetown, Sierra LeoneThe Church Missionary Society Grammar School, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, with the boys marching out. circa 1910
Rowers and cox in a rowing boat on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
People on Playa Chica, Cartagena, Chile, South AmericaPeople on the beach at Playa Chica, Cartagena, Valparaiso region, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1920
Crowds gathered outside War Office in August 1914, WW1Scene outside the War Office in Whitehall, London following the declaration of war in August 1914. Note the ubiquity of the straw boater among the men gathered there. Date: 1914
Slacker raids, New York, 1918A truck load of men in boaters who were picked up without registration cards, exempting them from conscription into the U.S army in WW1. They were rounded up, then taken to Armory for examination
Family on a holiday outing, Dunwich, SuffolkFamily (Arthur, Harold, Lucy, Albert and Violet Auerbach) on a holiday outing to the village of Dunwich, Suffolk, 30 August 1908. The building is All Saints Church, abandoned in the 1750s
Little boy in back garden, Ealing, West LondonLittle boy (Harold Auerbach) in the back garden of his home at 1 Carlton Road, Ealing, West London, with croquet hoops in the lawn. Date: circa 1904
Young men at Hanger Hill Tennis Club, Ealing, West LondonTwo young men (Harold Auerbach and Raymond Squire) at Hanger Hill Tennis Club, Ealing, West London, with people playing tennis in the background. Date: 1914