Competing Collection

Surfing championships at Newquay, Cornwall
A competitor in the surfing championships at Newquay in Cornwall

Crystal Palace Brass Band Festival
View of the Central Avenue leading to the Crystal Palace in south London at the time of the annual Brass Band Festival. Bands from all over the country took part

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - RAF Bedford coach
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - The ubiquitous RAF Bedford SB3 (43AC42) with Strachans Pacesaver bodywork, used by the 1977 Ten Tors team

Edgar & Madge Syers in Olympics Games, ice skating 1908
Edgar Syers dancing with his wife Madge Syers in the Olympic Games of 1908, winning the bronze medal at the Princes Skating Club, Knightsbridge, London. Date: October 1908

RMS Titanic - poster, French version of Raise the Titanic
RMS Titanic: poster for French version of the film Raise the Titanic, 61 x 45 inches. La Guerre des Abimes (The War of the Abyss). Date: 1980

Alfa Romeo Racing Cars
Two Alfa Romeo racing cars competing at the RAC TT (Tourist Trophy) Motor Race held in Ards, Northern Ireland. The race was held here between 1928 and 1936. Date: 1931

Horses Neck-and-Neck
Reproduction of a painting by Louis Malespina (1874-1940) showing vying racehorses. Date: circa 1920s

Polish and English Oarswomen
Members of the Warsaw Women's Rowing Club compete with their counterparts in the Isleworth Club and Furnivall Club at Putney. Date: 1931

Official anti British First Boer War protest card
A conflict known also as the Transvaal Rebellion took place between the British and the Boers from 1880 to 1881 The south of Africa was overlaid with European powers competing for colonial territory

Germany and France - Conquest of the Air 1907
German and France, rivalry between two air-ships. The German air-ship that stayed up the longest for three hours over Berlin, over the French rival La Patrie. Date: 1907

School swimming competition
Competitors in school swimming competition. Date: circa 1930s

Pilot Officer T G W Appleby in a Talbot Ten Sports Tourer - photographed outside the Clement Talbot Motor Works prior to competing in the Monte Carlo Rally (he finished 64th)

Greek athletes competing in the martial art of Pankration. After the Pancrastinae statue of Pankratiasts in the Florentine Museum (now in the Uffizi). Pancraziasti del Museo Fiorentino

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition - Charles Chuck Kirkbride
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - Charles Chuck Kirkbride, from the RAF Halton Pipe Band waiting for the next team to be Piped in. Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - A 126th entry team
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - A 126th entry team marching in Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Mess tent
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - John Boucher et al having lunch in the mess tent. Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - A 125th entry team
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - A 125th entry team marching in, led by Charles Chuck Kirkbride from the RAF Halton Pipe Band Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Okehampton camp-site
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - The Camp site at MOD Okehampton Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - A 124th Entry team
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Bedford 3-tonner
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - The Bedford RL 3-ton lorry used by the team, driven by our friendly neighbourhood Rockape (RAF Regiment). Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Green worm
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - A tired competitor sleeping through the day. Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - LWB Land Rover
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - The Long Whee-Base Land Rover used by the RAF Halton team

Cartoon, Out! (Disraeli and Gladstone)
Cartoon, Out! Gladstone as batsman is bowled out, and Disraeli as wicket keeper is back in the running. A cricketing analogy for the transfer of power in the wake of a General Election. Date: 1866

Edgar & Madge Syers the 1908 Olympics
Husband and wife team who were in the Olympic Games of 1908, winning the bronze medal at the Princes Skating Club, Knightsbridge, London. Madge Syers winning in her own right, first in free skating

Velocipede competition in Leipzig, Germany 1885
Scenes from a velocipede competition in Leipzig, Germany. Date: 1885

International Athletics, White City Stadium, West London
Runners taking part in an International Athletics event at White City Stadium, West London on 2 August 1937. Showing the finish of the 100 Yards, won by B Johnson (USA), with C B Holmes (GB) second

Blackburn YA. 7 WB781
Blackburn YA.7 WB781 (msn 5615), on the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough fire dump (struck off charge on 18 May 1955)

SPORT FOR DISABLED / 1895
Sport for the disabled at Nogent-sur-Marne - men with wooden legs competing for first place Date: 1895

GREECE / PENTATHALON
Young men competing in the pentathlon. Date: ANCIENT GREECE

ANCIENT GREEK PENTATHLON
Young men competing in the pentathlon. Date: ancient

COMPETING WITH PEACOCK
A peacock (Pavo cristatus) is admired by a mother and daughter who try to compete by dressing in the height of fashion. Date: 1840s

PARIS STREET SCENE 1893
Animated scene at the junction of the rue du Croissant and du Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, with newspaper sellers competing for custom. Date: 1893

Beautiful Legs Contest
A group of young women competing in a contest to decide which of them has the most beautiful legs, the prize being a pair of silk stockings! Date: early 1930s

Aquitania and Vaterland compared by G. H. Davis
The Aquitania (British) and Vaterland (German) compared. Showing their relative length, displacement, engines and horsepower. Date: 1914

Former Prime Minister A J Balfour at golf
The former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour competing in the annual summer golf meeting of the North Berwick Old Club, Scotland

Medieval singing contest, Wartburg
Medieval singing contest held at Wartburg Castle, Germany. In the lower picture, competing singers include Biterolf, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Walther von der Vogelweide

William D B Curry and Frederick I Pitman, rowers
William D B Curry and Frederick (Freddie) Islay Pitman (1863-1942), rowers. They both took part in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race of 1884

The Battle of Flowers, Italy -- a young womans beauty and some red flowers in competition for attention. 1923

Mrs Ritchie competing at the Marsa Club, Malta
Mrs Ritchie, wife of Commander R. D. Ritchie, R.N. competing in the ball and bucket race, which she won, at the gymkhana held at the Marsa Club in Malta

Blessing Horses, Siena
SIENA PALIO Before taking part in the annual race through the streets, competing horses are blessed in a church Date: 1893

The Duke of Edinburgh competing at Cowes
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, competing at Cowes Regatta in 1952. Date: 1953

Waiting to take the stage at beauty competition, Manchester
A thin young lady waits for her turn to take the stage at a beauty competition in a Manchester nightclub. Date: circa 1980

International tennis players at Wimbledon, 1911
Page from The Sketch magazine featuring photographs of international players competing at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis championships in 1911. Top row from left: Miss M. Reick (Germany), Mr R

Army Sports Meeting at Greenwich Park, WW1
A sports meeting, organised by the Y.M.C.A. with various military sporting types competing in a number of competitions in Greenwich Park, London

Map West Indies
The European powers are competing who can grab the greater portion of these islands : the French and British are doing better than the Spanish and Dutch... Date: 1827

Canada Nova Scotia
An old fort overlooks the sea, a relic of the days when France and Britain were competing for Canada. Date: circa 1835

The complete views of competing brothel houses. Print shows an interior view of a brothel with several courtesans, three in front of a standing screen showing scene of a large bird perched on a pine

Ladies Mounted Sports at Ranelagh - Lady Alice Scott
Page from the Bystander featuring photographs of the female contenders in the Ladies Mounted Sports at Ranelagh. Top left is Miss Joan Hamilton

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