Hoops Collection

Coopers at work making wooden barrels
Four coopers hard at work in their workshop making traditional wooden barrels. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Alice in Wonderland, Alice at the croquet game, with flamingo (mallet) and hedgehogs (balls). Date: early 20th century

Industry / Cooper 1827
Coopers made flasks, tubs, pails etc; this particular cooper is putting together a hogshead. Various iron and wooden hoops wall his shop

Victorian Silhouettes by H. L. Oakley
A page of silhouettes showing various Victorian pastimes and games including archery, croquet, skating and chess

British Countryside - Cutting Chestnuts
British Countryside - A Woodman cutting Chestnuts at Midhurst, Sussex - from which barrel hoops, fencing and bean sticks are made. Date: 1938

Some shorages and how they are dealt with 1918
Shortage of skins and hides in Scotland, using trousers for their bagpipes. Shortage of iron hoops for wine casks. Please note

Hoops Date: 1916

Children playing with stick and hoops Date: 19th century

Children playing with hoops Victorian period Date: 19th century

Two children in garden of Oddington House, Gloucestershire
Two Talbot Rice children (David Arthur and Cecil Penelope) in the garden of Oddington House, near Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, October 1935 Date: 1935

Children's Hoop Race Date: 1925

Vase decorated with human head. Ceramics, Zapotec culture (Monte Alban III). Early and Middle Classic Period (100-700 AD). Mexico. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain. Date: 2018

St Monica's Waifs And Strays Home Ashbourne Circa
St, Monica's, Waifs, and, Strays, Home, Ashbourne, circa, 1900, Girls, play, with, hoops, croquet, mallets, at, the, Society, Derbyshire, childrens, children, welfare, care, accomodation

Dancers with hoops, Liverpool Dance School, 1930 s

Playing with hoops
Young boy and girl dressed in sailor suits are playing hoops. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Silhouette, The Croquet Party. late 19th century

Party Invitation Card, Three Dogs. 20th century

Chukchi man in armour made of wood and bone
Chukchi man in armour made of wood, whale bone, iron hoops and seal sinews covered with leather. (Chukotka region, Russia). HIs wife and son beside him

Monkeys playing golf, skittles, hoops, croquet, leapfrog, ball games, stiltwalking, archery, spinning tops, popinjay, etc. From a 16th century print

Girls playing the game of hoops in the Gardens of Luxembourg, Paris, circa 1900. Handcoloured heliotype lithograph by Fortier-Marotte after an illustration by Mailet from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports

Three boys with hoops
Three boys racing down a pathway with their hoops. Date: circa 1906

Machine for bending the barrel hoops 1875
This operator bending the barrel hoops. Date: 1875

Children playing on London streets 1900s
Edwardian children playing on the empty streets with nothing more than some chalk, rope and wheel and hoop. 1900s

Hoops - Boy and girl playing with hoops. Artist: Isabel Saul Date: circa 1920

Medieval leaping through hoop
Medieval game where two people hold a hoop and third man jumps through, if the person got caught inside, the music would be stop. Date: 13th century

GIRLS SKIPPING IN PARK
French girls skipping in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris Date: 1820s

TOYS / HOOPS / C19TH
The runaway hoop Date: late 19th century

TOYS / HOOP / 1870
A boy, out walking with mama and his sisters, bowls his hoop along a country lane Date: circa 1870

Albanian woman from Shkoder, with an embroidered waistcoat/jerkin, a substantial belt (with hoops for hanging things off it) and floral headscarf

Little boy in back garden, Ealing, West London
Little 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 woman with croquet mallet, Ealing, West London
Young woman (Lucy Auerbach) holding a croquet mallet, in her back garden at 1 Carlton Road, Ealing, West London. Date: circa 1906

The Four Seasons, Spring, by John Hassall
Children having lots of fun in the park, playing hoops, climbing trees and playing rounders. 1902

Old Maid card game - Mr. Rhinos Hoop-La. circa 1950s

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

Costume for a boy 1867
Three year old boys clothing for 1867 1867

Morecambe Tourist Shop
A shop at Morecambe caters for the holiday trade with buckets and baskets, postcards to send Auntie and perambulators for hire, folding chairs and hoops in all diameters... Date: circa 1905

Court Dress
English court dress stills employs the use of hoops to hold out the elaborately ornamented skirts even though they had fallen out of use for fashionable dress. Date: 1800

Five year old girls outdoor clothing 1886
Girl wearing knee length kilted skirt, jacket opening over a blouse of cream mousseline de laine, bordered with rosary beads. Date: 1886

Barnardos Girls Village Home, Barkingside - Girls at Play
Barnardos Girls Village Home, Barkingside. Girls at play outside their houses. Some have hoops. Date: circa 1920

Medieval men and woman playing croquet with mallet and hoops.. Handcolored lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnands Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell

Goldington Road School hoops in playground Date: 1942

Children in period costume, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall
Children in period costume at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, taking part in an educational visit which included dancers from the Royal Ballet. Date: circa 1980s

The Haven Salvation Army Home, Ramsgate, Kent
Playtime on the beach with hoops and spades for girls from The Haven - a Salvation Army childrens home at Ramsgate. Date: Circa 1910

St Winifreds Industrial School, Wolverhampton
Girls at play with hoops, skipping ropes and a swing at St Winifreds Industrial School, Wolverhampton. Nuns stand in supervision. Date: Date unknown

People in a garden with Chinese Laundry sign
People in a garden, including a man in oriental costume and a Chinese Laundry sign on the right

Women running a race with hoops
Four women running a race with hoops. A spectator watches, smiling, probably glad she isn t having to take part!

French Wheelwright
A French charron (= wheel wright) fits iron hoops onto the wooden wheel. Date: circa 1845

Louise Blot - French Dancer - Perfomer at the Olympia, Paris Date: circa 1910

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