Hike Collection

The Scout, Every Boys Weekly front cover
Front cover of The Scout magazine, the " only weekly official organ of the boy scouts" featuring two enthusiastic and earnest looking boy scouts reading a map while out on a hike

Ordnance Survey map cover - Dorking and Leith Hill
Front cover of an Ordnance Survey map covering the Dorking and Leith Hill area of Surrey. The cover features a hiker or rambler leaning against a wall and smoking a pipe as he consults his map

Wandervogel
WANDERVOGEL Members of a German youth club gather before setting out on a hike - hiking became very popular in the 1920s

Marathon walker John Merrill
John Merrill, is a British marathon walker, a profession which he can be said to have created, and of which he remains a leading, if not the only, member

A hiking party in Switzerland, roped together for safety. Date: circa 1910

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, writer, poet and traveller
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)was a prolific poet and novelist, penning more than 70 books. As well as being married to a man for fifteen years

Comic postcard, Soldier going on the march, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, Large woman hiking Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Young couple out hiking Date: 20th century

View of Sorrento, from Capodimonte, Italy
19th century vintage photograph - view of Sorrento, from Capodimonte, Italy c.1880 s, with ship in the bay

Telegraph signal station, Gibraltar
Vintage 19th century photograph: telegraph signal station, Gibraltar

Two couple take rest during a hike - Snowdonia, North Wales
Two couple take a rest during a hike - possibly in the Lake District or Snowdonia. Date: 1953

Country walking with children
A father sits with his two children for a picnic in the shelter of a dry stone wall during a walk in the Derbyshire Peak District National Park. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Six terrific chums heading off for a jolly hike
Six terrific chums (all with pipes and sticks) pose for a photograph before heading off for a jolly ramble - late September. Date: circa 1920

Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915

Combermere Scout Troop (1st Barbados) having a rest while on a hike

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

Boy scouts on a hike, Bel Air, Mauritius
Diocesan boy scouts on a hike through the woods, Bel Air, Mauritius, August 1937. Date: 1937

Boy scouts and rovers on a hike, Mauritius
Boy scouts and rovers on an inter-group hike, Mauritius, before the outbreak of WW2. Date: circa 1930s

Boy scouts resting during a hike, Mauritius

Boy scouts on a hiking activity, Mauritius

Kingston scouts on a hike, Jamaica
Boys of No.1 Scout Troop, Kingston, Jamaica, out on a hike

Far From the Madding Crowd
Sequential cartoon showing a couple of intrepid campers determined to get away from it all, and hiking up hill, down dale and through a a river

OLD HIKER
An old man takes to the hills for a healthy hike! Date: 1930s

Irish Scouts at a wayside cross
Irish Scouts, on a hike with rucksacks, stopped at a wayside cross in Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland. 1960s

American Scouts hiking
A group of American Boy Scouts walking through open countryside. circa 1960s

Lithuanian Scouts cooking
A group of Lithuanian Boy Scouts stop during a hike in a coniferous forest to cook some food by chopping down trees and making a small fire. circa 1951

Scout patrol leaders and the chief on the Blue hike
Sweden - Scout patrol leaders and the chief on the Blue hike. circa 1950s

A wonderful view
Oh, Harold, how wonderful! And to think we forgot the glasses. " Well, my dear, can t we drink out of the bottles?" A mountaineering couple admire the view at the end of a long climb

Hiking on the Vitosha, Bulgaria
Vitosha - a mountain massif, on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The Vitosha is one of the tourist landmarks of Sofia and provides a fantastic site for hiking

The Cuckoo by Alfred Bestall
Series of humorous illustrations showing a young girl, full of energy and optimism as she models her new hiking outfit, and then chatting to neighbours as she passes on her walk

The Hiker & Camper, 1933
Front cover of The Hiker and Camper, the thirties magazine devoted to outdoor pursuits. Red version

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