Daredevil Collection

Wigan Pier
Boys in swimming shorts jump off Wigan Pier into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Daredevil Diver Leslie Gadsby, Shanklin Pier, Isle of Wight and his variety of crazy dives, including a 90ft dive in a sack, a 45ft long arm balance

MYTTON / SHORT CUT HOME
JOHN MYTTON To win a bet that he could outride a friend this eccentric squire took a short cut through a lake despite the fact he couldnt swim. Date: 1796 - 1834

Zazel, Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London
Zazel (Rossa Matilda Richter), female acrobatic performer and human cannonball, at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London, with verses from Punch magazine. 1877

Georgian Royal Antics
Illustration by Steven Spurrier (1878-1961), showing the Prince of Wales, later George IV (1762-1830) and Charles James Fox (1749-1806)

High Diving Horse
William Doc Carver (1851-1927) had been mounting a diving horse show since 1894. The rider in this picture is probably his daughter Lorena. Date: circa 1925

Eddie Gifford the one-legged cyclist at the London HIppodrom
Eddie Gifford, the one-legged cyclist in a photograph demonstrating his death-defying leap on a bicycle from an elevated platform on the roof of the Hippodrome

Skikjoring competition, St Moritz, Switzerland, where daredevil skiers are pulled at speeds of up to 50km/hour by unmounted thoroughbreds over the icy frozen lake for 2, 7000m. Date: circa 1920s

Albert, Duke of York with Parachutist John Tranum
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) pictured with the famous Danish parachutist John Tranum (?-1935) at a unique exhibition of Sporting Trophies held at Shell-Mex House

Mdlle. Alix hooping the hoop at London Hippodrome
Hooping the Hoop, the latest sensation at the London Hippodrome - Mademoiselle Alix in her motor car in which she hoops the hoop. A health and safety disaster waiting to happen in 1903. Date: 1903

Madame Sage and George Biggin during the balloon flight in 1785.. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi, the Italian daredevil aeronaut

Uruguay - Wing Walker at an Airshow, Montevideo Racetrack
Uruguay - Wing Walker acrobat at an Airshow at the Hipodromo Nacional de Maronas, a horse racing track located in Ituzaingo neighbourhood, Montevideo, Uruguay - circa 1922-23

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