Fit Collection (page 5)

Suffragette, Simple Life - 99 Times Round Garden. The Simple life couple, she, an ardent suffragette, keep fit by running 99 times round garden before breakfast (even in the pouring rain)

LFB firefighters in whaler race, River Thames
LFB firefighters crew in a whaler race for the Fishmongers Cup, posing for their photo on the River Thames, 27 September 1958

Firefighters in aA 4x110 yards relay race
Firefighters in Amateur Athletic Association 4x110 yards senior relay championship final. The winner was D A Hitchman of Birchfield Harriers (C6), second was R Holtum of Belgrave Harriers (B1)

LFB firefighters in 100 yards race, White City Stadium
LFB firefighters in a 100 yards race for the Brigade Championship Final at White City Stadium, 30 August 1958. They are taking part in the LFB Athletic Association 47th Annual Athletic Meeting

LFB firefighters in water dip, obstacle race
LFB firefighters in a water dip, during the final of an obstacle race

LFB firefighters in tug of war, White City Stadium
LFB firefighters in a tug of war, White City Stadium, 31 August 1957. They are taking part in the LFB Athletic Association 46th Annual Athletic Meeting. Date: 1957

LFB firefighters doing Swedish Drill to improve their physical fitness

Pauper Lunatic Certificate
A 1926 Pauper Lunatic Certificate certifying that workhouse inmate Ada Wheelhouse was feeble-minded and fit to remain in the workhouse, categorised as a lunatic

Oxford Blues who had joined up, WW1
Spread of 76 portraits and key showing sporting Blues from Oxford University who had joined up during the First World War

Ground crew activities by G. H. Davis
The men behind the fighter pilots: how the ground crews keep their aircraft fighting fit. RAF teamwork during the Second World War. Date: 1941

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

Poster, Rally Round the Flag, Every Fit Man Wanted. Recruitment poster for the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1915

Hungry Peter dressed as Fat Boy in Pickwick
Hungry Peter the pig dressed as the Fat Boy in Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers, ready for Humpty and Dumptys fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

How your body measurements should be taken 1924
American clothing catalogue, showing where you should measure yourself, for a womans bust, waist and hip line, and also for length of skirt

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

Paris Deputies Chambre
The splendid new Chambre des Deputes, a fit home for Frances leading citizens. Date: circa 1840

English Dance School
Girls doing leg stretching exercises at the Berthe Krull Dance School. Date: 1930s

Italian Beauty
A charming young woman of Spezia, Italy, wearing her national dress, sporting a hat that would fit a doll, lavishly trimmed with flowers and ribbons. Date: 1930s

William Sclater
WILLIAM SCLATER controversial churchman, who trimmed his beard to fit his ruff in a tasteful and becoming fashion. Date: 1609 - 1661

ON THE RIBS
A young woman demonstrates how to use the ribs, an exercise frame, 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

Keep Fit Exercises
Three women standing in front of a mirror doing keep fit stretching excercises. Date: early 1930s

Fitness Display
Two soldiers keeping fit on an exercise wheel. 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

Vaulting Horse 1930S
Girls on a vaulting horse in a gymnasium. 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

Ball Games 1930S
Three strapping German girls playing ball in an open space in the snow, Berlin, Germany. Date: early 1930s

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

French Riviera Keep Fit
The young handsome keep fit fanatic Professeur Caron wows a small crowd as he jumps in the air on a beach in the French Riviera. Date: early 1930s

Riviera Aerobics Class
A keep fit class doing aerobic exercises with beach balls on the French Riviera, the young women copying the actions of a young male fitness instructor. Date: early 1930s

British Gymnastics Display with announcer & seated audience
Unintentionally hilarious photographic postcard of a British Gymnastics Display with announce/trainer (armed with a megaphone) and a very reserved seated audience

Keep Fit - Running for the Train
Keep Fit - Take a walk every morning! Three portly city gent having to scramble to make their morning train into the city. Date: 1943

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

Advert for Terrys exerciser for men 1933
Be 21 again this way. You can be as full of vigour to-day as you were at 21. Rut and routine need never grip you. Mornings can find you fresh. Get the urge of the Terry Sculling Exerciser

Fitness Poster - Scouts
How Scouts Keep Fit: B-Ps (Baden-Powell s) Daily Dozen poster. Date: 1920s

A tight squeeze for a giant. Source unknown

London Fire Brigade running race in Dulwich
London firefighters running a race in Dulwich, South London

London Fire Brigade - Tug of War Team
London Fire Brigade - Tug of War winning team (F District) group photo

LCC-LFB - Junior firemen training scheme
The Junior Firemen was created in the latter days of the London County Council. Boys aged 16 to 17 were eligible to join the scheme

NFS (London Region) assault course training exercises, WW2
With a dramatic reduction in enemy attacks on London after the Blitz (1940-41) firefighters had to be kept gainfully employed and a high level of fitness and preparedness maintained

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