Exercising Collection (page 2)

Women's League of Health
The Women's League of Health and Beauty presenting an exercise demonstration in Hyde Park. The League was founded in 1930 by Mary Bagot Stack. Date: 1932

Sailors exercising their jaws on a comic French postcard by Poli. Date: circa 1930s

Advert for Battle Creek Health Builder 1929
Mechanical massaging exercise machine that with a vibrating belt, used by 80, 000 men and women in the 1920s. Date: 1929

Advert for Abplanalps Institute, cure of obesity 1929
Showing a man with large a waistline and after the recommended workout slim two months later. For all sexes the cure of obesity, free booklet and cinema demonstration

London Fire Brigade - Alfie Shawyer, Boxing Champion
During the 1930s and 1940s, Assistant Chief Officer Alfie S. Shawyer was a prominent figure in boxing, becoming British Amateur Champion and winning the Golden Gloves of America

Preston Prison 1905
Tread wheel at Preston prison, 1905 Date: 1905

Rudolph Valentino with his Dogs 1926
RUDOLPH VALENTINO film actor, exercising his two dogs. His tragic early death resulted from peritonitis after an emergency operation for appendicitis and gastric ulcers

Children at Queen Marys Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey
Children lying on outdoor exercise trolleys at the Queen Marys Childrens Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey. The hospital was opened in 1908 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board

Girls Gym Display
Schoolgirls, pupils of Nita Henson, put on a formal gymnasium display on a rib stall climbing frame. Children exercising at school, PE lesson, keep fit class

Communist China - communal exercise session
Communal exercise session for timberyard workers during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China. circa 1970

Communist China - university students exercising
Communist China - a new intake of university students doing physical exercise. circa 1960s

The Physical Culture Girl. A phenomenon of the early 20th century when mass gymnastics and exercise became popular. Date: 1909

Hiking in Germany - two gentleman launch out on a hearty ramble through the countryside. Date: 1904

Prunella Stack - Leader of Womens League of Health & Beauty
Prunella Stack - Leader of The Womens League of Health & Beauty, The mortimer Halls, 43 Great Portland Street, W1, London - Aim of the League was

Man and woman with bicycles and greyhound dogs. Date: circa 1939

Chinese Children at their daily drill (Tai Chi?). Date: circa 1910s

GIRLS EXERCISE 1905
Exercises for girls using a short pole. Date: 1905

Man and woman exercising, using weights and pulley rope. Date: 1917

KEEP FIT CLASS / 1930 S
A Keep fit Class. Exercises are performed on the floor to enhance posture. Date: 1930s

Keep Fit / Throwing Ball
Throwing a ball during a Keep Fit class to develop rhythm & eye training. Date: 1940s

Photo of the gymnasium at St Brides Institute in the Tatler
Series of black and white photographs from the Sporting and Country House Supplement of the Tatler, 22nd December 1909 showing business girls using the gymnasium at St Brides Institute, London

Lady member of The League of Health and Beauty. In 1930 Mary Bagot Stack created the Womens League of Health & Beauty. Her vision was of a league of women who will renew their energy in themselves

Knitted vest and pants, circa 1941
" The active man needs underclothes that will fit and give him freedom of movement...the pants are fitted trimly into the waist

Page design, two young women, School Silhouettes
Page design in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA. Depicting two young women in their room, one doing exercises on the floor

Students exercising in garden Date: 1904

Exercising at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Men exercising (doing calesthenics) at a military training camp, Camp Travis, near San Antonio, Texas, USA. Date: early 20th century

Scouts exercising at camp, Fiji, South Pacific
Scouts exercising at camp before a morning swim, Fiji, South Pacific

LFB firefighters doing Swedish Drill to improve their physical fitness

LFB Annual Review 1934, Exercise wearing breathing apparatus Date: 1934

LFB Annual Review 1934, Exercise carrying casualty Date: 1934

Boy Scout activities in Afghanistan, in the scouting magazine Jamboree, April 1933. Date: circa 1930s

3rd Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, training
Boys of 3rd Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa, doing physical training

Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, exercising
Boys of Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa, doing physical exercises

Scouts of the 4th Calcutta Troop, India
Scouts of the 4th Calcutta (Armenian College) Troop, India, doing physical drill

Boys at Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner, Middlesex
Boys exercising in the grounds of the Commercial Travellers Schools at Pinner. Date: circa 1907

Gymnasium Lord Mayor Treolars Home, Alton, Hampshire
Inmates exercising in the gymnasium at Lord Mayor Treolar Cripples Home and College, Alton. Some have crutches laid on the floor next to them. Date: Date unknown

British troops relaxing and exercising, Western Front, WW1
British troops relaxing and exercising near the Western Front in France during World War One, watched by a group of officers. 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

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

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

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

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

Exercising to Gramophone
A girl does her leg exercises on a table to the music of her gramophone records! Date: early 1930s

Keep Fit Class
Keep young and beautiful - a ladies keep fit class, with the ladies lying on their backs in a circle, doing leg exercises! Date: early 1930s

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