Bookie Collection

Bookmaker - Turf Accountant - James Dowsett of 38 Duke Street, Brighton. circa 1950s

Comic postcard, woman at the races with bookie, placing a bet both ways Date: 20th century

A tic-tac man at work on a soap box on Epsom Downs racecourse. Date: 1937

Appleby Horse Fair, Cumbria, England - a bookmaker writes the odds for a horse trotting race on a board. He wears braces and a straw sun hat. Date: 1990

Chippy Norton - Late Victorian era Bookmaker
Mathew Dawson (18201898) - a British racehorse trainer based at Newmarket. In a career which lasted from 1840 until his death in 1898, he trained the winners of twenty-eight British Classic Races

Horses running in Duke of York Handicap, Kempton Park, Surrey, illustrating a fixtures card for October 1936. Date: circa 1936

Racegoers and bookies at the Epsom Derby, 1933. Date: 1933

Joe Thompson - Bookmaker - late 19th century
Portrait by Phil May of Joseph (Joe) Thompson (18381909) The Leviathan - an Australian (although born in England) bookmaker and well-known figure in the racing (and other sports)

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