Tradition Collection (page 8)

Schoolboys on Founders Day, Harrow School, Middlesex, setting off to play the annual ball game, their own version of football, which takes place on 10 October. Date: 1922

Famous wall game in progress, Eton School, Berkshire
The famous wall game, a kind of football game, in progress at Eton School, near Windsor, Berkshire -- an annual event, on St Andrews Day (30 November) at this famous public school

State Coach in Royal Pageant, Reopening of Parliament
State Coach, containing the King and Queen, in the Royal Pageant from Buckingham Palace to Westminster for the reopening of Parliament, London. Date: 1922

Miniature bakery and brewery found during excavation, Egypt
Miniature bakery and brewery, with workers, discovered in a pyramid during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the buried dignitary. Date: 1922

Miniature granary found during excavation, Egypt
Miniature granary, with workers, discovered in a pyramid during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the buried dignitary. Date: 1922

Wooden statues of servants found during excavation, Egypt
Wooden statues of servants, discovered in a pyramid during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the buried dignitary. Date: 1922

State barge of Chief of Yawnghwe, Burma, South East Asia
State barge of the Chief of Yawnghwe (Nyaungshwe), southern Burma (now Myanmar), South East Asia. The prow is in the shape of the Sacred Bird

Kalimantan chief of Borneo, SE Asia
A Klemantan (Kalimantan) chief of Borneo, SE Asia (then part of the British Empire), wearing a tiger-cat war coat, and holding a sword and a shield. Date: 1922

Childrens Christmas party 1847
Little ones in high glee, the room decorated with holly and brilliantly lighted with candles. Neighbouring children come to celebrate the Christmas season

Kikuyu couple in the forest, Kenya, East Africa
Kikuyu couple in the forest, Kenya (then a British colony), East Africa -- the plume on the end of the warriors spear shows his peaceful intentions

Italian Lacemakers - Santa Margherita Ligure, Liguria, Italy. Date: circa 1910s

Fondong warrior, Cameroon, Central Africa
Fondong (Fondom) warrior, Cameroon, Central Africa, with elaborate scarring on his arm, produced by cutting the flesh and putting stitches into the wounds

Feast day near Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, South America -- indigenous people in large feathered headdresses, carrying large drums. Date: 1922

Christmas at Windsor Castle, roasting beef 1856
Roasting the Royal baron of beef for the Christmas banquet, overseen by the careful superintendence of the roasting cooks, who coax the baron, with sufficient basting

Elephant presentation dance, Nha Trang, South Vietnam
Elephant presentation dance in a public square at the Festivity of the Tet (New Years Feast), Nha Trang, South Vietnam (then known as Annam)

Vice-Admiral Ws Leveson Gower, Isle of Man
Vice-Admiral Ws Leveson Gower, 4th Earl Granville, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, taking part in a procession on Tynwald Hill, an ancient ceremony promulgating new laws, on 5 July 1938. 1938

Queen Victorias farewell to the Duke of Wellington, 131 guns, Spithead, 11 March 1854. 1854

Hindu Customs - three men
Hindu Customs (left to right) - Tadin playing with fire, - Aiganda Pandaron, Tadin with a padlock on his mouth

Wedding tradition, Throwing the Slipper. 19th century

Boy with an empty dish on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Boy serving a fruit pie on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Boy serving a roast turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Three turkeys on a Thanksgiving postcard
Three turkeys with a carriage on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Boy riding a turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard
Boy riding on the back of a large turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Hot-cross buns for poor children in the East-end of London
Some 500 children were given a feast of hot-cross buns on Good Friday at the Salmon Lane Mission, Limehouse Fields. Date: 1910

The Illustrious Women of France - The Bridesmaid
The Illustrious Women of France - the Bridesmaid. 1860

Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle 1887
Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle. The baron of beef was an annual institution at Windsor and was cut from the first prize fat bullock at the Shaw Farm Sale

February the Twenty-Ninth - Perhaps Leap Year Proposal
Following in the tradition that the once in four years 29th February is a chance for women to ask men to marry, one man appears to have a plethora of suitors to choose from. Date: 1912

Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee commemoration -- a portrait in the middle, with sculptures from the Albert Memorial in the four corners, representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Date: 1887

Swiss Guards, St Peters Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
Two Swiss Guards standing in the open doorway of St Peters Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. Date: circa 1890s

Ancient and Modern, Tower of London, London
Ancient and Modern uniforms at the Tower of London, London. Date: circa 1930s

Procession in Luz, near Lagos, Algarve, southern Portugal
Religious procession of Nossa Senhora da Luz (Our Lady of Light) in Praia de Luz, near Lagos, Algarve, southern Portugal. Date: circa 1905

Local women and girls weaving straw, , Madeira. Date: circa 1900s

Cornish Waits
Musicians playing Christmas carols in a Cornish harbour village. Date: 1936

Coronation Procession, Admiralty Arch, London
The Coronation Procession of King George V and Queen Mary passing through Admiralty Arch, London, 22 June 1911. Date: 1911

Searching for Hidden Presents on Christmas Day
A household has fun searching for Christmas presents hidden away in various parts of the house on Christmas Day. Date: 1903

Selling mistletoe in streets 1854
Street trader selling mistletoe to passers by in the streets. Date: 1854

Christmas tree in history by Pauline Baynes
One of four illustrations by Pauline Baynes for The Illustrated London News Christmas number 1958, tracing the four key moments in the history of the Christmas tree

Pulling a Christmas cracker, New Years Eve by Simon Harmon
Two children in party hats pull a Christmas cracker at the dinner table. Date: 1917

Beating the bounds of the Tower of London 1906
Beating the bounds is still carried out in the Tower of London today every three years on Ascension Day. One of Londons oddest traditions

Welsh Eisteddfod 1906
Opening of Gorsedd, Ceremony in which druids are in a circle, the Gorsedd (meaning chief) sit on a throne, where the Eisteddfod is proclaimed. 1906

Welsh Eisteddfod Regalia 1906
Welsh Eisteddfod Regalia and Offices. Ceremony in the Royal National Eisteddfod takes place every summer in the first week of August, been happening for a couple of centuries since 1568

Chritmas pudding 1849
Well to do victorian family with lots of children waiting to be served their Christmas pudding. 1849

First Kiss Under the Mistletoe 1870
Little brother kissing his baby sibling under the mistletoe. Date: 1870

Swan Upping on the Thames 1900
Annual ceremony taking place on the Thames where British Crown swans are rounded up, caught, ringed, and then released. The party occupy a flotilla of row boats the sterns adorned with flags

Stratford-upon-Avon, Mop Fair 1899
Standing for Hire, Stratford-upon-Avon, said to be the largest fair in England, regarded by the agricultural class in the district as the chief holiday of the year

Knutsford, Cheshire, Royal May Day Festival 1902
May Day Festival in Knutsford, Cheshire town, taking place every year, were children dress-up in costumes, shepherdesses, milkmaids and folkloric figures like Robin Hood, Little John and Maid Marion

Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902
Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning

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