Amusements Collection (page 3)

The Gift of Sight & Braille as only recreation of the blind
A picture drawn specially for The Sketch by Frank Reynolds, highlighting an appeal in 1914 to raise 30, 000 to complete the buildings at the Royal Institute for the Blind in Great Portland Street

Council Crest Amusement Park, Portland, Oregon, USA, with various mountains visible. From left to right: Mount Rainier, Mount St Helens, Mount Adams, and Mount Hood

White City amusement park, Denver, Colorado, USA, opened in 1908. Date: circa 1910

Bruce Bairnsfather drawing on a farmhouse wall in France, WW1
The birth of " Fragments" : Scribbles on the farmhouse walls. Picture illustrating how the famous wartime Bystander cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather, creator of Old Bill

The Bystander Christmas Number, 1929
Inside front cover of The Bystander Christmas Number 1929 featuring a page of vignettes showing entertainment and nightlife scenes, while in the centre, two dandyish chaps sip champagne. Date: 1929

Society at Grosvenor House ice rink, 1929
Fashionable society taking up a fashionable pastime in 1929. An impression of the splendid ice rink at Grosvenor House by Helen McKie. Date: 1929

Letting loose balloons from the Eiffel Tower
A small girl in the arms of her father, lets loose a small balloon with a postcard attached from the third platform of the newly completed Eiffel Tower

Interned prisoners at Ruhleben performing Trial by Jury, WW1
Interned prisoners at Ruhleben camp near Berlin, dressed up in costume for a production of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, Trial by Jury. The play was produced by Mr J. H

Christmas Day at the Aldwych YMCA Rest Hut, WW1
Soldiers and sailors enjoying some lively entertainment at the busy Aldwych Rest Hut, Christmas 1916. Gifts of pipes, tobacco

Union Jack Club fundraising advertisement, WW1
Advertisement in The Sphere, asking for donations towards an extension to the Union Jack Club of Waterloo Road, London during the First World War

Lunching in a restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, first platform
People enjoying lunch at one of the four restaurants on the first platform of the Eiffel Tower at a height of 180 feet shortly after its opening as the centrepiece of the Paris International

The Little Theatre as a soldiers clubhouse, WW1
A page from The Sphere, reporting on how the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket, London (now the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) temporarily converted to become a soldiers clubhouse during the First World

Paris, France - Barriers, booths outside city limits. Date: 1855

British soldiers playing chess, WW1
A sketch drawn from life by a British officer at the front showing two soldiers passing the time by playing chess using various forms of cartridges for the different pieces. Date: 1915

The Education of the Masses, War Economy, Douglas MacKenzie
Illustration showing the mass of entertainment and amusements on offer to the London population during the First World War, despite the fact the country was supposed to be practising war economy

Decca advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for the popular Decca gramophone during the First World War, showing two soldiers discussing asking their commanding officer for a favour

Buying games for the Tatler scheme, WW1
Cartoon showing a lady leaving her car after spending a day buying various games to contriubte to the Tatler magazines Games Bureau

At the Sea by Fish
At the Sea - " Where every prospect pleases, and only man is" - wanting. A lovely seaside scene on the British coast during the First World War, where, despite as the amusements

Game at Butlins Holiday Camp, 1966
A game which appears to involve a group of hysterical ladies doing press ups much to the amusement of everyone present at an unidentified Butlins Holiday Camp in 1966. Date: 1966

Scene at a fairground. Date: 20th century

Victorian clown greetings card
Back design of a greetings card from the Victorian era featuring three clowns wearing colourful, striped knickerbockers, clambering over the edge of the card

Art Deco party game card
Cover of a card for a party game called gooseberries, featuring a lovely art deco illustration of people in evening dress thinking deeply about the game. Date: c.1933

Greyhound racing on board the Berengaria
Mimic greyhound racing, at the height of its popularity among smart society in 1930, on board the transatlantic passenger liner, the Berengaria

Scene on the Pike, Long Beach, California, USA
A typical scene on the Pike, Long Beach, California, USA. 1940

Richard Beau Nash - 2
RICHARD BEAU NASH Dandy associated with the amusements of Bath, when somewhat past his prime... Date: 1674 - 1762

Entertainments at Southport, Merseyside including Hiram Maxims " Captive Flying Machine" amusement ride (which opened in 1904), helter skelter lighthouse

Blackpool - Entrance to the Winter Gardens
Blackpool, Lancashire - Entrance to the Winter Gardens Date: circa 1904

Toys made for local children on display, sub-station 80V
Toys and play park amusements made by firefighters on display at the fire sub-station in Aristotle Road, Clapham SW4, before being given to local children in need

Amusements of foreigners - American woman. Japanese print shows a woman watching a child walking on stilts. Date 1861

Thirty-six amusements in Tokyo - foreigners at a sukiya (tea house). Japanese print shows a scene with foreigners seated around a dining table in a tea house. Date 1872

Blackpool Pleasure Beach - South Shore Date: circa 1920s

Die Barnum & Bailey groesste schaustellung der welt Der welt grosstes, grossartigstes, bestes amusements-institut. Men in military uniforms standing while bareback riding on horses

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1930
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number featuring a pre-WWI Christmas party with people enjoying a music recital. Date: 1930

Chicago - Pier
The East End Recreation Pier will include Concert Halls, Dance Hall, Childrens Amusements and Refectory, accessed by street car from the mainland. Date: 1916

Longbeach Amusements
Longbeach Amusement Center, California, U.S.A. Date: late 1960s

Piccadilly Amusements
An amusement arcade in Piccadilly, in central London. Date: 1900

Vaudeville Theatre, New York
Building, Automatic Vaudeville & interiors (48 East 14th Street). Interior of the Automatic Vaudeville theatre, 48 East 14th Street, N.Y.C. showing amusements

Arrys oliday by John Hassall
A group of youngsters lark about and amuse themselves on a Bank Holiday

The Bran Pie
A small pie waves a parcel he has just drawn out of the bran pie - or tub - at a Christmas party

Bartholomew Fair (1721)
Coloured, semi-circular illustration of Bartholomew Fair (1721), with small text giving the history of the fair, published by J. F. Setchel, London, c1820. HPF/5C/47

Foreign Amusements or the British Lion on the Watch

Holiday Amusements
Holiday pastimes - the elder girl has her bike, her brother is off to play tennis, the youngest has a cart to pull - and maman has her sewing

Weston Pier Amusements
Amusements on the old pier at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset

Toy Fairground Rides
French toys of fairground amusements

Blackpool Tram Party
A party of Blackpool (Lancashire) holidaymakers do the circular tour of the town in an open tramway car

Twelfth Night Amusements
Christmas Gambols and Twelfth Night Amusements -songs, ditties, characters and parlour games

Richard Beau Nash - 1
RICHARD BEAU NASH Dandy associated with the amusements of Bath, when somewhat past his prime

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