Amateur Collection (page 3)

Halleys Comet over Hampstead Heath, London, May 1910
Star-gazers watch Halleys Comet near the Flagstaff on Hampstead Heath, London, May 1910. Date: 1910

Henry Doubleday Photo
HENRY DOUBLEDAY Entomologist, ornothologist, grocer, ironmonger & insurance agent, noted for his work on the systematics of Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths) Date: 1808-1875

Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, art exhibition
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870 - 1948), daughter of Princess Helena & Prince Christian, grandaughter of Queen Victoria

Billiard player J. Graham Symes in khaki, WW1
The amateur billiard champion, Lieutenant J. Graham Symes with his opponent Mr E. S. Bourne, who he beat to retain his title at Ormes Hall in February 1918. Date: 1918

Debutante dress show 1939
Society girls as amateur mannequins at Dorothy Laws dress show in March 1939. From left to right, the group shows Miss Anne Nettlefold, Miss Joan O Malley, Miss Muriel Cunningham, Miss Pamela Stokes

London Fire Brigade - Alfie Shawyer, Boxing Champion
During the 1930s and 1940s, Assistant Chief Officer Alfie S. Shawyer was a prominent figure in boxing, becoming British Amateur Champion and winning the Golden Gloves of America

The results of getting married
Beautiful postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Amateur Gardening - A Labour of Love. A handsome gent pushes his lovely wife around their walled garden in a green wooden wheelbarrow

Gentlemen v Players, 200th Cricket Eleven
Photographs of the eleven Players in the 200th Gentlemen and Players cricket match. The match was played on an annual basis, the tradition having started in 1806

M Hugh Stanbrough, England Amateur Football International player. 1890s

Delightful, at the Gaiety Theatre, Macedonia
Delightful first produced at the Gaiety Theatre, Macedonia in 1918. The caption reads Weston Drury as Ferdie Fittitt. Sergeant Weston Drury wrote many of the productions at the Gaiety Theatre

G B Raikes, England Amateur goalkeeper. 1890s

A G Henfrey, England Amateur International footballer. 1890s

Central FC football team (probably a London-based amateur club). Date: 1903-1904

Punch comment on Halleys Comet - 1910
The Great Amateur. Aviator: " Marvellous Flier! And does it for love!" - Punch Magazines comment on the appearance of Halleys Comet in May, 1910

Tennis - Then and Now
This cartoon from 1928 remembers fondly the days when tennis was an amateur pursuit. 1928

Arthur Melmoth Walters, English footballer
Arthur Melmoth Walters (1865-1941), English amateur footballer who made nine appearances for the England team. He was also President of the Law Society. late 1890s

Some odds and ends of varied interest 1914
Some odds and ends of varied interest, including the Royal Mail steam packet Alcantara, an advert for the Pathescope Camera for amateur cinematography, and a Burberry advert

Crimean War, theatrical production before Sebastopol
Crimean War -- theatrical production by amateur performers of the Second Division of Zouaves (French North Africans) before Sebastopol. 1855

London Life - A Pavement News Vendor, with a very wide variety of publications for sale. Date: circa 1910s

Augustus Le Plongeon (1825-1908). British-American antiquari
Augustus Le Plongeon (1825-1908) British-American photographer and antiquarian who studied the pre-Columbian ruins of America, Maya civilization on the Yucatan Peninsula

Caricature of Henry Irving sweeping amateurs away
Caricature of the actor-manager Henry Irving (1838-1905) sweeping the amateur rubbish away from the theatre. 1883

Cartoon, Matinees! Matinees!! Matinees!!! Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre

Tatler cover - Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale - boxer
The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, later 14th Duke of Hamilton (1903-1973), Scottish nobleman and aviation pioneer, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in 1924 at the Amateur Boxing

JOHN CHUTE English scholar, linguist, connoisseur and amateur architect - just the sort to be a friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole... Date: 1701 - 1776

Amateur Coach Driver
An amateur driver in the days of The Whip Club, also known as the Four Horse Club : it dissolved in 1838. Date: circa 1830

Sir Nathaniel Bacon
SIR NATHANIEL BACON Amateur artist Date: 1558 - 1627

Cartoon, Still Life, WW1
Cartoon, Still Life, showing a foaming tankard of beer, with some saloon-bar strategists in the background. Date: 1916

Duchess of Westminster - amateur dramatics, Eaton Hall
A scene from Scaramouch an amateur theatrical production performed at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster

H Ms Pinafore by Ws Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Promotional postcard for H. M. S. Pinafore by W. S. Gilbert; music Arthur Sullivan.First produced at the Opera Comique Theatre, 25th May 1878. For the Windsor Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society

Princess of Pless - amateur dramatics, Eaton Hall
Daisy, Princess of Pless performing with her brother George Cornwallis-West in some amateur dramatics at Eaton Hall, the Cheshire seat of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster

Amateur photographers stand on car, Manchester Air Show
Two amateur photographers stand on their car, and a man tunes his radio to listen in, as they attend the then annual Manchester Air Show at Barton Aerodrome, Eccles. Date: circa 1980

FA Cup winners - Blackburn Olympic, 1883
FA Cup winners in 1883, Blackburn Olympic. This was the last occasion on which two purely amateur elevens contested for the cup, the runners-up being Old Etonians

Jay Gould (1888 1935), photograph taken in 1908 in New York. Jay Gould was an American tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould

Charles Roach Smith (1807-1890) was an antiquarian and amateur archaeologist, whose collection of antiquities found during London excavations or dredging of the Thames formed his Museum of London

Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman
A scene from Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, at the Comedy Theatre, London. Based on the stories by E.W.Hornung, the play showed a series of incidents in the life of the gentleman thief

Suffragette Play Votes for Women. An amateur theatrical group staging a play which features a suffragette holding Votes for Women sign, a policeman, a lad, a butcher and two Ruffians. Date: circa 1909

Suffragette Play Suffragette and the Man. A group of (amateur?) actresses and a man in the centre, hold up Votes for Women and Meeting Tonight signs

Firefighters in aA 4x110 yards relay race
Firefighters in Amateur Athletic Association 4x110 yards senior relay championship final. The winner was D A Hitchman of Birchfield Harriers (C6), second was R Holtum of Belgrave Harriers (B1)

Seeing themselves as Bairnsfather sees them
A homage to the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, drawn by an amateur soldier artist, Major D. de la C. Ray

Blinded soldier starring in a revue, WW1
Blinded soldiers from St. Dunstans taking part in a revue called The Dispensary Boys, in a scene called the Beauty Chorus. St

The Amateur Photographer Illustrated advertisement
Advertisement for The Amateur Photographer Illustrated magazine. Its the biggest, brightest and best and has information on practical, elementary, pictorial and scientific photography

Lord Hawke - 7th Baron Hawke of Towton
Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke of Towton (18601938), (" Lord Hawke" ) - English amateur cricketer who played major roles in the sports administration. Date: 1926

Georgina Weldon, campaigner, litigant and amateur singer
Georgina Weldon 1837-1914), campaigner against the lunacy laws, litigant and amateur singer. Her interest in spiritualism led her husband to try to prove that she was insane; she resisted being taken

Cinematography trophies on display
Various trophies on display. The notice reads: Modern Bee Breeding, but the large trophy at the centre is for Amateur Cinematography

Military amateur dramatic club
The Band of the 2nd SOM.L.I, dramatic club, in opera Pip-ard. British army amateur dramatic club, probably the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers stationed in China around 1911. Date: C.1911

Amateur wireless hobbyists
Two amateur wireless hobbyists listening on their headphones

Swish Broadwood - Victorian Racing and hunting character
Alfred Swish Broadwood - Amateur Road coachman and character in the late Victorian era (also in hunting and racing circles). Known to have a good command of Anglo-Saxon !! Date: 1896

Agressive local man spots ths chance of a swift buck
Scene - Scarboro. Time - Sunday Morning. Very Muddy. Inhabitant: " Be Thoo a Strong Mon?" Amateur Weightlifter (rather proud that his fame has spread so far): " Well, yes, my friend

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