Exercise Collection (page 10)

Lighter side of Life on an Armed Liner, WW1 by Arthur Watts
Sketches of scenes on board an armed liner during the First World War by the artist Arthur Watts who was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Colonel, Sir Malcolm Fox, army fitness advocate
Sir (George) Malcolm Fox (1843-1918), British Army officer and advocate of physical fitness. Crediting with introducing a exercise regime and fitness instructors in the British Army. Date: 1915

Artillery exercise, India. Date: circa 1890s

The Seven Good Deeds of Bonzo (Saturday) -- he gives the fattened Christmas turkey a little exercise. Date: 1923

British troops on training exercise, Western Front, WW1
British troops on a training exercise, advancing for the attack, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

NFS (London Region) fire brigade display at Lambeth, WW2
During 1942 and 1943, 23 air raids occurred over the London Region, but they were light in character. The firefighters of the NFS needed to be kept in a state of constant readiness

GLC-LFB - Junior firemen at Shoreditch fire station
The London junior firemen scheme started in 1964. Here they give a PE demonstration at the formal opening of the new Shoreditch Fire Station

Inns of Court Brigade on the march, WW1
Men of the Inns of Court OTC (Officer Training Corps) Brigade on the march in London during a drilling exercise at the start of the First World War. They are all members of the legal profession

Early morning for polo ponies at the National School of Equi
Polo ponies receiving early morning exercise at the National School of Equitation, headquarters for the Season for the ponies of Mr Schwarz, also known as the owner of Jack Horner

Prunella Stack
Ann Prunella Stack OBE (1915-2011), President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack

Exercise class at Ministry of Health, 1938
A health and beauty class formed by seventy female members of the staff at the Ministry of Health, using one of the conference rooms in Whitehall to indulge in their after-work hours exercises

Training school for submarine crew 1943
The U.S Navy submarine school at New London, which these photographs were taken is a rigorous training ground for the men who have already passed preliminary teasts fitting them for their dangerous

Paris YMCA gym
The gymnasium of the Paris Young Mens Christian Association. Date: 1901

Boys exercising in school playground
Boys exercising in a school playground

Two soldiers doing bayonet practice, India
Two soldiers in a clearing, doing bayonet practice, India. Date: 1918

Man out walking with backpack
A man out walking with a backpack and various other items

Prunella Stack maniuplating Herbert Barkers legs, 1939
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton(nee Prunella Stacks) meets Sir Herbert Barker(1869-1950), manipulative surgeon. Following treatment of her husband by Barker for a slight spinal injury

Soldiers working on a wooden structure - WW1 era
Soldiers working on a wooden structure, possibly as a training exercise. Date: circa 1915

Trainee lowered from tower during exercise drill, WW2
National Fire Service trainee being lowered from a tower during exercise drill. Date: 1940s

Turntable ladder drill at Southwark HQ. Date: 1915

Wiltshire Downland
A cyclist on a tandem stops to take in the lovely Wiltshire Dowland, near Devizes, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1930s

Doulting Abbey
The Abbey, or Tithe Barn, Doulting, Somerset, England, built at the end of the 14th century. Date: 1930s

Bicycles by the Thames
Parked bicycles (including a tandem) along the tree-lined River Thames at Datchet, Berkshire, England. Date: 1940s

England / Old Cleeve
A female tour cyclist with peroxide blonde hair, in the picturesque village of Old Cleeve, near Minehead, Somerset, England. Date: 1930s

ON THE RIBS
A young woman demonstrates how to use the ribs, an exercise frame, at Miss Critchleys School, London. Date: early 1930s

Fencing School
A young woman learning how to dence at Miss Critchleys School, London. Date: early 1930s

PHYSICAL JERKS
A young woman demonstrates how to perform physical jerks as part of an exercise regime at Miss Critchleys School, London. Date: early 1930s

Schoolgirl Exercises
A little girl does keep fit exercises in her school uniform pinafore dress (Miss Critchleys School, London). Date: early 1930s

Girl doing Exercises
A little girl does keep fit exercises. Date: early 1930s

Scouts Playing Football
A group of boy scouts have a kick about on a dusty patch of wasteland. Scout playing ball Date: mid 1960s

Fitness Display
Two soldiers keeping fit on an exercise wheel. Date: early 1930s

Vaulting Horse 1930S
Girls on a vaulting horse in a gymnasium. Date: early 1930s

Riviera Exercise Class
A keep fit class doing exercises on a beach on the French Riviera. Date: early 1930s

Girl on Climbing Frame
This little girl has taken her hat off to demonstrate her climbing skills on an outdoor wooden climbing frame! Date: early 1930s

The Serpentine 1930S
The Serpentine lake at Hyde Park, central London, with the Lido and paddling pool on the left of the photograph. Date: early 1930s

Westland Wessex participating in Exercise Hardfall in No?
Westland Wessex participating in Exercise Hardfall in Norway in June 1976

Advertisement for Bournvita -- teenage girl (G Hill) in an energetic pose. 1959

China - Xianxian - French Jesuit Mission - Childrens Choir
China - Xianxian - French Jesuit Mission - Young children having a lesson outside. Date: circa 1905

An emancipated woman dreaming of the perfect husband
My Dream. An emancipated woman dreaming of a small, manageable, respectable husband! Date: circa 1920s

Assembly Hall - Westminster City School - Gym Lesson
Assembly Hall - Westminster City School - Converted for a Gym Lesson. Located at 55 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HJ. Date: 1910s

Three little boys heading out to school
Adolphus, Timothy and John set out for school quite early. Date: 1898

National Gymnastics Competition Caen, Parallel and High bars
National Gymnastics Competition Caen, competitors competing on the Parallel and High bars (in synchronised performance). Note the safety mat is actually a large pile of soft sand! Date: 1911

Thessaloniki, Greece - Cavalry Exercise in Champs de Mars
Thessaloniki, Greece - Ottoman Empire era postcard, showing an exercise by Cavalry troops in the Champ de Mars. Date: circa 1903

Thessaloniki, Greece - Patriotic Ottoman Empire Card (when Thessaloniki was still under Ottoman control), showing a shooting exercise by Cavalry troops in the Champ de Mars. Date: circa 1903

Emancipated woman shows off her strength
The strong emancipated woman shows off her strength; she balances on a barbell with two red Valentines Day hearts for weights while picking up a puppet-like little man by the scruff of the neck

Valentine admiration of emancipated woman
The strong emancipated woman on a red heart Valentines Day see-saw, crushes the puppet-like little man as she rises. Date: 1910s

WWI - What a Pleasure to be a Soldier! Two cheeky (and rather rotund) Geman privates mimic their commanding officer and his hands-on-hips pose - with considerable comic effect!

Reduced facsimile of a Chart of Physical Exercises (supplied with Cassells Physical Educator). Date: circa 1910s

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