Boaters Collection

Boats at Molesey Lock
Boats and boaters at Molesey Lock on the Thames at Surrey. Though larger vessels must use the lock on the right, smaller boats can be hauled over the rollers, to the left

Middlesex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898

Busy Summer Morning on The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Date: 1914

Bargate Below Bar, Southampton, Hampshire. Date: circa 1920s

Tilting in canoes at Wargrave Regatta on the River Thames in Wargrave in Berkshire. Date: 1901

Finsbury Park Boaters
The first large pleasure boat launch on the lake at Finsbury Park, north London, England

Straw hats return to favour in 1930 - factory in Luton
Straw hats return to favour! Luton, the centre of the straw hat industry had suffered from lean years since 1914; khaki was the wear of choice until 1918

Vieux Marcheurs
A series of side profile illustrations of old men wearing different kinds of hats including boaters, bowlers and top hats. Date: circa 1901

Harvard Try-Out Barge
A twenty-oar barge used at Harvard University to select and train boat crews. The coach can walk up and down the centre deck. Date: circa 1925

Conservative Party Conference 1979
A stall at the 96th Conservative Party Conference, Blackpool, October 1979, selling Maggie rock and plastic straw boaters with a ribbon stating, We all won with Maggie'

Exterior view of Harrow School, showing boys wearing their boaters. Date: 1896

Late Victorians children's fashion 1899
Girls and boys linked hands, wearing the latest in Victorian clothing

Boulters Lock - on Ascot Sunday, packed with rowing boats in the lock on the River Thames at Maidenhead. Date: 1901

Boulters Lock - on Ascot Sunday, waiting their turn outside Boulter s. Date: 1901

A general view of Wargrave Regatta on the River Thames in Wargrave in Berkshire, relaxing in long rowing boats. Date: 1901

British colonial group in India. Date: circa 1900s

Bijou Theatre
Exterior view of the Bijou Theatre, unknown location, where the Reg Jecks and Vera Vivian Variety Theatre Company were appearing at the time. circa 1920s

Three men on a bench, Littlehampton, West Sussex. 1900

Manchester United FC team, FA Cup Winners 1909
Group photo, Manchester United FC team, FA Cup Winners in 1909. 1909

Recruits queueing up to enlist, WW1
Recruits queueing up to enlist at the start of the First World War. 1914

W G Graces Jubilee Match, Lord s, 1898
The Gentlemens Cricket Team, W G Graces Jubilee Match, Lords Cricket Ground, 1898. 1898

The England Cricket Team, Lord s, 1899
The England Cricket Team, Lords Cricket Ground, 1899. 1899

Surrey Cricket Team 1898. 1898

Somersetshire Cricket Team 1897. 1897

Nottinghamshire Cricket Team 1898. 1898

Lord Sheffields Australian Cricket Team, 1891-2. circa 1891

Essex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898

England Cricket Team, Lord s, 1896. 1896

Crowd at The Oval Cricket Ground, London
Part of the crowd at The Oval Cricket Ground, London. circa 1898

Four men on a balcony in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain
Four smartly dressed men on a balcony in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain. 1912

Yachting costume 1897
Woman wearing a yachting outfit with gigot sleeved jacket, ruffle shirt and petit boaters hat. Date: 1897

Womens oversized sack coats 1873
Stealing the palladium or scouring it? A group of young woman on holiday in March in their oversized coats. 1873

SAINT CLOUD MILLINERS
Boaters, bonnets and other hats displayed in a milliners at Saint Cloud, Paris Date: 1908

Italians Arrive New York
The arrival of 2, 447 Italian immigrants at New York Date: 1923

Straw boater schoolchildren, Stratford
Children in school uniform, including straw boater hats, walk to school in Straftford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Changing the guard - St. Jamess Palace, London - drawing quite a crowd of interested onlookers even back in the 1900s! Date: 1914

Fred Collins Beach Pavilion Entertainers - Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth - 1917 season. Date: 1917

Colonial passengers in rickshaw, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Colonial passengers in a rickshaw outside Acland House, Colombo Commercial Co Ltd, Lillie Street, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Ayres and Smith straw boater hat advertisement, 1931
Advertisement for the English Rustic straw hat created in a very specific, traditional plait. Date: 1931

CMS Grammar School, Freetown, Sierra Leone
The Church Missionary Society Grammar School, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, with the boys marching out. circa 1910

Rowers and cox in a rowing boat on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Crowds gathered outside War Office in August 1914, WW1
Scene outside the War Office in Whitehall, London following the declaration of war in August 1914. Note the ubiquity of the straw boater among the men gathered there. Date: 1914

Slacker raids, New York, 1918
A truck load of men in boaters who were picked up without registration cards, exempting them from conscription into the U.S army in WW1. They were rounded up, then taken to Armory for examination

Harrow School in 1934
A view up toward some of the principal buidings of Harrow School

People on Playa Chica, Cartagena, Chile, South America
People on the beach at Playa Chica, Cartagena, Valparaiso region, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1920

Family on a holiday outing, Dunwich, Suffolk
Family (Arthur, Harold, Lucy, Albert and Violet Auerbach) on a holiday outing to the village of Dunwich, Suffolk, 30 August 1908. The building is All Saints Church, abandoned in the 1750s

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 men at Hanger Hill Tennis Club, Ealing, West London
Two young men (Harold Auerbach and Raymond Squire) at Hanger Hill Tennis Club, Ealing, West London, with people playing tennis in the background. Date: 1914

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