Players Collection (page 19)

Maddermarket Theatre
The Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, Norfolk, England, home of the famous Norwich Players and a replica of an Elizabethan theatre. Before it was rebuilt in 1953. Date: circa 1950

Decorative frieze - football in the snow
A decorative wall frieze showing some sturdy footballers playing a match. 1920s

American Football Team Photo - possibly a British-based team as they appear to be playing on a football (soccer!) pitch. Date: 1910

The Canadian National Lacrosse Team Date: circa 1900

Wales versus Australia at Wembley, 1930
Vigorous defending by the Australian side during the first rugby league match to be played at Wembley Stadium in January 1930. Date: 1930

Teddy Tinling tennis outfit, 1962
A tailored tennis suit in cotton pique with a drawstring waist and crossed racquets motif embroidered in blue on the shirt top designed by tennis fashion guru, Teddy Tinling. Date: 1962

Scene at a rugby match, with two players colliding. circa 1940s

1960s fashion, wearing Ronald Paterson for the polo
A girl hugs her polo player boyfriend wearing a casual dress by Ronald Paterson in brilliant turquoise shantung. The dress is sleeveless

Players cigarettes advertisement featuring Mark Twain
Advertisement for Players Navy Cut Tobacco and cigarettes featuring American novelist, Mark Twain together with an endorsement of the beautifully cool and sweet smoking tobacco he has in his pipe

Teddy Tinling tennis dress 1962
A terylene and cotton tennis dress designed by tennis fashion guru Teddy Tinling with frills trimming the hem and high neckline while the back swoops to a low and glamorous exit view. Date: 1962

Scene during a football match, with the ball skidding across the grass and a large crowd of spectators in a stand in the background. circa 1940s

Basketball at the 1948 London Olympics
In this sparsely-attended basketball match at Harringay Arena, the American team (in white) beat the Swiss team. Date: 1948

Sierra Leone - The Merry Minstrels
A band with marimba players and a drummer - captioned as The Merry Minsterls - Sierra Leone, West Africa Date: circa 1910s

Val d Ossau muscians
Val d Ossau men playing traditional local instruments to accompany dances. On the right we have a fiddler with his fiddle and on the right

Bonang Players - Bali
The Bonang is a musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan (percussion orchestra). It is a collection of small gongs (sometimes called kettles or pots)

Musical Boys Tour of Australasia
His Excellency the Governor of South Australia with Reverend W. J. Mayers and his travelling party. During 1908-10, Rev. W. J. Mayers and a party of Musical Boys toured in Australia and New Zealand

1888 Football Match
Two players move to head the football. Date: 1888

Boules, Paris
Spectators take a keen interest in the performance of the boules players in the Allee de l Observatoire, near the Luxembourg, Paris Date: 1860

Miss Dorothea Douglass
Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878 - 1960), English tennis player and seven time winner of the ladies singles title at Wimbledon between 1903 and 1914

Helen Wills and Edith Cross in action
Miss Helen Wills Moody and Miss Edith Cross, American tennis doubles partners pictured in action on court at Wimbledon in 1929

We Take Off Our Beret by Mel
A series of caricatures by the cartoonist Mel showing various well-known tennis stars playing at Wimbledon in 1931. These include Lili D Alvarez who sported a pair of culottes on court

Tennis court, Bishops Palace, St Davids, South Wales
A tennis court, with people playing, inside the ruins of the medieval Bishops Palace, St David s, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Pembrokeshire football match, South Wales
A football match taking place somewhere in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. All the men, including the goalkeeper, are looking across to the top corner of the pitch

Man reading the rules of the board game Frogger
A man reading the rules of the board game Frogger, which was based on the popular arcade and video game of the same name and was brought out by Milton Bradley in 1981

Hockey by John Hassall
A group of boys play a rather rough and violent game of hockey

Wandering Theatre Group of the 9th Army (German soldiers) during the Second World War leaving for the front. The 9th Army was activated on May 15, 1940 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command

Suzanne Lenglen playing doubles
Suzanne Lenglen (1899 - 1938) French tennis player pictured playing a backhand shot in the Ladies Doubles Final at Wimbledon in 1925

Lenglen, Borotra and Lacoste playing doubles
Two pictures showing French pairs playing doubles at Wimbledon in 1925. On the left is a sartorial duo; Suzanne Lenglen in her bandeau stretching for a smash, while her partner Jean Borotra

Suzanne Lenglen by Fred May
Suzanne Lenglen (1899-1938), French tennis player and champion, winner of 81 singles titles, 73 doubles and 11 mixed doubles captured by cartoonist Fred May wearing her signature bandeau

Englands test match victory: pitch invasion
The enthusiasm of the crowd after Englands victory: spectators flocking on to the field, while the players make a dash for the pavilion

An Egyptian Concert
An Egyptian military band, with bagpipe players, drummer, a cornet player and Egyptian horn players. All the men wear a uniform of dark trousers, white jackets and red fez hats

Ottoman Empire - Dervish Musicians - including two ney players, a zither player and Koranic reader (seated on beautiful carpet). The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia)

Two ney-playing Dervishes practising
Two ney playing Dervishes practising, wearing Fez hats. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273) - mystic and poet

Group of Dervishes, including musicians playing zither and ney. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

Four Mevlevi Musicians
Four Mevlevi musicians including three Ney (wind instrument) players. The ney is featured on Egyptian pyramid wall paintings of 3000BC

Band of the National Waifs Association (Dr Barnardo s)
A boys band of the National Waifs Association, otherwise known as Dr Barnardo s. The instruments include hand bells, bagpipes, mandolins, and a guitar

Madame Sada Yacco
The Japanese players at the Criterion theatre in London in a scene from Act II of " The Geisha and the Knight" showing Madame Sada Yacco (or Saddayakko)

Lawn Tennis Championship matches at Wimbledon
Vignettes showing scenes at Wimbledon in 1887, including several of the fifteen year old Miss Lottie Dod serving the ball in the year she first won the Championship

Helen Wills Moody as a little girl
Helen Wills Moody (1905 - 1998), American tennis player and eight times Wimbledon champion, pictured as a young girl playing in the semi final round of the Junior Championship at Forest Hills

Egypt - Kettle Drum players riding on camels
Two kettle drum players - their drums mounted onto the flanks of camels. They are ceremonial players, providing music for traditional social or religious corteges, parades or processions

The Chucker Chucked
Polo players look for a lost ball on the polo field. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Heads Up- Tails Down by Howard K. Elcock
An impression of the famous Roulette Room in the Casino at Monte Carlo. Although baccarat and other games of chance are played

Worplesdon Golf Course
Page devoted to scenes of Worplesdon golf club during the 1960s

Cricket Players / Grace
A group of crack gentleman cricket players in 1871 including the legendary W.G. Grace, third from left. Pictured at Lords cricket ground in 1871

Reaching Great Heights
It is remarkable what scientific training methods will accomplish on the football field. Four players spring upwards to head a football

Danican (Philidor)
Known by the family nickname Philidor, Francois-Andre Danican became one of the noted chess players of the 18th century, devising Philidors defence

At work on the line at Saltash
Coversion from broad to narrow gauge on the Great Western Railway. Players and Surfacemen at work in the early morning on the line at Saltash

An Artists Notes in California. Three Card Monte Sharps
Scene in an empty hut with a card table and professional card players, chips and cards on the table. A mangy dog sits under the table and an indian girl looks from the doorway

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