Glide Collection

Gaby Deslys dancer, singer and actress 1881-1920
Gaby Deslys (Marie-Elise Gabrielle Claire) French dancer, singer and actress. Died young of a throat infection caused by Spanish influenza

Air Scouts learning to glide
Two Scouts sit in a Slingsby T.21 while another Scout connects it to a cable prior to launch at the first Air Scout Gliding Course at Lasham. An Avro York G-ANTK can also be seen in the background

Helen Gray in The Toe Jazzbuck - a novelty Buck
Helen Gray (headliner on the Keith-Albee Vaudeville Circuit) showing The Toe Jazzbuck - a novelty Buck and Wing Toe dance, 1927 featuring Butterfly, Gilda Gray Strut, Charleston Glide

Paragliding in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire
A paraglider takes off from a hill in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

River Severn ferry sisters - 3
Sisters Annie James, 76, and Kath Evans, 72, on the passenger ferry which crosses the River Severn at Hampton Loade, Shropshire

River Severn ferry sisters - 2
Sisters Annie James, 76, and Kath Evans, 72, on the passenger ferry which crosses the River Severn at Hampton Loade, Shropshire

River Severn ferry sisters - 1
Sisters Annie James, 76, and Kath Evans, 72, on the passenger ferry which crosses the River Severn at Hampton Loade, Shropshire

Fairground at Burntisland, Fife, Scotland
A fairground at Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, with a helter skelter at the centre. Date: circa 1920s

A Turkey Glide by William Heath Robinson
The latest Christmas family gliders fitted with listening in equipment for hearing Dutch concerts during dinner. One particularly large family flies through the air while using hot water bottles or

Dante & Beatrice: Heaven
" For that all living lights, waxing in splensour burst forth into songs; Such as from memory glide & fall away." (Canto XX, lines 10-12)

Lady Malcolms Servants Ball
Page from The Bystander magazine illustrating two contrasting dances - the Lambeth Walk as painted by William Roberts at the top, and the Palais Glide

Swiftly we glide
Young coulpe glide across the ice in a snow-chair. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1912

Miss Renouf and Mr Bennett performing The Wedding Glide
Miss Renouf and Mr Bennett on stage performing The Wedding Glide of 1912 (From the Passing Show of 1912 ) - Music & Lyrics by Louis A. Hirsch

Blohm und Voss Bv246 air-to-surface glide bomb on display in A Shed, Farnborough

Wilbur Wright in the 1901 glider - Kitty Hawk
Wilbur Wright in the 1901 glider at the end of a glide at Kitty Hawk. Date: 1901

Petaurus breviceps, sugar glider
Marsupial, Native name Dab-bie, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797, held at the Natural History Museum

Acrobates pygmaeus, pygmy glider
Marsupial, Flying Squirrel or Mouse. Drawing 86, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797, held at the Natural History Museum

A glide with the double-rudder machine moving to the left, north slope of Big Kill Devil Hill. Date 1902 Oct. 2

Rear view of Wilbur making a right turn in glide from No. 2 Hill, right wing tipped close to the ground. Note on reference print: See also Bain negative (LC-B2-83-4) and file print in lot 10965

Start of a glide; Wilbur in motion at left holding one end of glider (rebuilt with single vertical rudder), Orville lying prone in machine, and Dan Tate at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Mysterious Waters
An eerie morning mist creeps over the River Nene, Northampton, England. Two swans glide across the still water... Date: early 1960s

Scouts with Elliotts Primary EoN Glider
One Scout of the 18th Walsall Group sits at the cockpit of a Elliotts Primary EoN Glider, demonstrating how to fly it, while two other scouts sit on the ground watching. 1940s

Air Scouts taking off in glider
A Slingsby T.21 Glider taking off with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scout glider in flight
Slingsby T.21 Glider flying with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Air Scout in glider
An Air Scout sits smiling in the cockpit of a glider at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scout operating winch for gliders
A Senior Scout at the controls of a winch used for launching gliders at the Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Burns / Cotters Saturday
THE COTTERs SATURDAY NIGHT His bonnet rev rently is laid aside, his lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide

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