Skaters Collection (page 3)

The Sketch Christmas Number 1959
Front cover illustration by Leslie Wood for the Christmas Number of The Sketch 1959, featuring carol singers, dancers at a party, ice skaters and a post man. Date: 1959

Decorative Christmas frieze - ice skating
A decorative frieze illustrated with skaters enjoying a glide on a frozen lake. 1920s

Skating in Single File. Artist: Anon. Four skaters in single file on a frozen lake Date: circa 1935

Two ice skaters - one falling over
Quite from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: " He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural." The perfect accompaniment to this humorous cartoon postcard depicting a suave

Chinese Skaters 1896
Skating and sledging in China. Date: 1896

Buckingham Palace 1810
Buckingham House (not yet called The Palace) the residence of Queen Charlotte : seen in winter from St Jamess Park, where skaters and sliders are enjoying the ice Date: 1810

Skating by John Hassall
A group of boys enjoy some rough and tumble while sledging and skating in the snow

The Hostess who Invited a few Friends to Skate in her Privat
Humorous illustration by H.M. Bateman showing a distraught society lady, aghast at the sight of her house guests standing chest deep in the not very frozen lake she had encouraged them to skate upon

A skater and her poem by Florence Hardy
Away away, come follow me! For the North, wind blows, and the smooth ice glows, where the merry skaters be. A skater attempts to convince her friends to join her and come skating

The Silvery Moon by Florence Hardy
Two children dressed in clown and Pierrot costumes, skate together under a silver moon

Children playing in the snow
Lovely illustration showing children having fun during the winter, ice skating, sledging, building snowmen and, rather more alarmingly, building fires!

Christmas children skating by Florence Hardy
Three small children, looking very festive in their matching green elfin capes skate together across a frozen pond

Skating Girls by Florence Hardy
Three little girls, dressed identically in red coats and carrying fur muffs with matching hats skate across a frozen pond

Christmas children by Florence Hardy
A quintet of children in winter jerseys and pointed caps skate in unison on a pond holding bunches of holly in a very festive manner

The Humorist Christmas Number 1938 - An Ice Proposal
Front cover illustration by William Heath Robinson featuring a group of skaters on a frozen pond. A man etches a question mark on the ice with his skates and his girlfriend responds

Mr & Mrs Syers
Florence " Madge" Syers skating with her husband and coach Edgar Syers at the Princes Skating Club in aid of Our Dumb Friends League

Journeys End
Couple dancing on ice, not aware of the hazard ahead of them

Skating on St. Jamess Park lake during winter of 1947
A cheerful crowd disporting on the ice in front of Buckingham Palace. During one of the coldest winters experienced by Britain, nearly all London lakes were available for skaters

Weight & See / Whr
The New Safety Ice-Tester for testing under comfortable conditions the capacity of the ice to bear the weight of the average British citizen

A Rival to the Gotterdammerung dinner: Dining in Berlin s
Two ladies and a gentleman sat around a dinner table at the Ice Palace in Berlin. The venue, complete with ice rink was built at a cost of 100, 000 and became a fashionable dining venue

Many Ways to Fall 1919
Ice skaters can fall down in so many different ways!

Hyde Park Ice Skaters
Ice skaters of all ages enjoy themselves in Hyde Park, London

Lake District / Windermere
Lake Windermere, in Englands lake district, is frozen over, offering skaters a vast expanse of ice upon which to perform

Ice Skating on Tray 1889
Ally Sloper being pulled round on a tray by skaters on Hampstead Ponds

Skaters on Christmas Day
A Christmas Day skating party while the band plays The Skaters Waltz

Ice skating scene
An ice skating scene, with an athletic male skater in the foreground, a couple further back, and a non-skating man with his non-skating dog

Princes Skating Club
Top people - including the Prince of Wales - at Princes Skating Club, London : interestingly, virtually all the skaters are female - is that why the Prince is here ?

Skating Switchback 1909
Daring roller skaters risking life and limb to have a go on the " Skating Switchback", part of the Empress Skating Rink at Earls Court, London. Up to 4200 could skate on this rink

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