Pitching Collection

The Scout magazine front cover, Special Summer Camping Numbe
Front cover of The Scout magazine

Some Difficult Camping Grounds by Heath Robinson
A variety of impractical and in some cases, downright ridiculous locations to pitch a tent, including on stilts in a lake, across a stream, in a field of angry bulls and on a steep rocky pinnacle

Soap-makers boiling soap in a factory. Man in coat and hat stacking soap in molds, another man pitching neat soap from a large vat of boiling animal fats and alkali

Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic
Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition - important archive of 52 negatives taken by Lt

Family Does Laundry Date: 1948

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - pitching tent
The double tent used by Captain Scott on the last journey of his ill-fated polar expedition to the South Pole, 1910 - 1912, shown in a photograph by Lieutenant H. R. Bowers on the upper plateau

Scouts pitching tents, Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece
Scouts pitching tents at Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece. Four earthquakes hit the island in August 1953, destroying many buildings; the scouts helped with clearing up and humanitarian aid activities

Deck flying by G. H. Davis
Deck flying: problems met by pilots of the Fleet Air Arm

Little Games for the Holidays - Pitching Poached Egg for Ter
Another ridiculous and rather messy game from the imagination of William Heath Robinson showing territorial army officers throwing poached eggs at a slice of toast skewered by a toasting fork

Lady Harriet Lindsay presenting prizes
Lady Harriet Lindsay (nee Gordon) presenting the prizes at the London Scottish Sports at Stamford Bridge, Fulham, south west London

Amundsens Antarctic Expedition pitching camp, 1911
Photograph showing members of the Amundsen Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 erecting their tent near Axel Heibergs Glacier, Antarctica, 1911

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