Playing Collection (page 18)

Ursula Jeans and Alec Waugh, cricketing
Actress Ursula Jeans (1906-1973) and novelist Alec Waugh (1898-1981) in an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939

Golfer Bobby Locke
South African golfer Arthur Bobby Locke (1917-1987) playing a practice round at St Andrews, prior to the Golf Open. Date: 1939

A golf club and its members
Cartoons of golfers at Broxbourne Golf Club in Hertfordshire. Date: 1939

Fred Astaire golfing
Fred Astaire (1899-1987) the American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer. His film The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle has recently been released

Polo players
A polo game being played at the Hurlingham Club, Fulham in 1910. The players shown below are the Duke of Westminster (1879-1953) and Lord Shrewsbury (1860-1921). Date: 1910

Label design, Liqueur de la Fanfare, group of musicians

Advert, Vimto Tonic Fruit Drink - gives you vim to win! Date: circa 1930

Christmas card, Miss Dolly stands in the corner
Victorian Christmas card, girl tells Miss Dolly to stand in the corner, Santa Claus waits to wish her a Merry Christmas Date: 19th century

Price list, drinks and tobacco on board RMS Mauretania
Price list, drinks and tobacco on board Cunard liner RMS Mauretania Date: 1953

Music cover, Serenade in the Night, Joe Loss
Music cover, Serenade in the Night (Violino Tzigano), English lyrics and musical adaptation by Jimmy Kennedy, original song by C A Bixio and B Cherubini, played by Joe Loss. Date: 1935

Women's football teams in action Date: 1919

Lance Percival playing a signalman in Andy Robson
Lance Percival playing a signalman in the first episode of Andy Robson, a Tyne Tees Television period drama. Date: 1983

Poster, Odeon Casino Date: 1927

Village Sports, Howzat Umpire, Comical Cats by Louis Wain
Village Sports, Howzat Umpire, Comical Cats playing Cricket by Louis Wain Date: 1904

Highland Scots Piper by Arthur Jule Goodman Date: 1893

George Frederick Handel, composer

George Frederick Handel by Roubillac
George Frederick Handel, composer, sculpture by Roubillac

St Mary's Church - Eastham, Wirral, Merseyside, England. Date: circa 1900s

Music cover, Little Girls Very Easy Waltz, by Ezra Read. Date: 1930s

Boy with snowballs, Snowballing Ambush Date: 1879

Advert, Burroughes & Watts Billiard Table Manufacturers
Advert, Burroughes & Watts Ltd, Billiard Table Manufacturers, Soho Square, London. Date: 1902

Mexico 1900s 1890s Mexican Comic Humour Death
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Spinning top - Silhouette depicting a boy playing with his dog & a spinning top. From The Book of Games published by Ward Lock. Date: 1920

Men playing Skittles inside in the East End, London pub. Date: 1903

Alexandra of Denmark (consort to Edward VII) in Copenhagen, playing quiet rubber (card game) with her two sisters, Maria Feodorovna, Princess Thyra of Denmark and father Christian IX

The Last Judgement, 1540. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). Deta
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). The Last Judgement, 1540. German Historical Museum. Berlin. Germany

Snap Playing Card - Roman soldier or gladiator with shield. circa 1910s

School teachers relaxing in a staff room, reading, chatting, smoking, drinking and playing cards. Date: circa 1971

Children demonstrating to save school playing fields
Children demonstrating to save their school playing fields, Havering, Essex. Date: circa 1970s

Children playing violins
A girl and a boy stand by a window in silhouette playing violins while another girl looks at some sheet music. An example of Soviet British exchange of musical culture in schools as part of

Anti-apartheid demo at Lord's
A street full of people outside Lord's cricket ground on the first day on the England v South Africa Second Test Match

Protest against Lions playing South Africa
Anti-Apartheid Movement demonstrators picketing in Twickenham to stop the British national rugby team playing against South Africa. Their placards read don't play with apartheid'. Date: c

Two women playing Diabolo in France while a mechanic fixes their car. Date: 1907

Trying to carry on as usual! Tennis players camouflaged from above in case of invasion. Date: 1941

Nigel Short, champion British chess player and Grandmaster
Nigel David Short (b 1965), champion British chess player who became a Grandmaster at the age of 19. He was a chess prodigy, first attracting media attention at the age of 10. Date: circa 1970s

Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist and physician
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Franco-German (Alsatian) theologian, organist, philosopher and physician. Seen here playing the organ, with a stained glass window behind him. Date: circa 1950

Spacek Sissy Long Hair Microphone Playing Guitar
spacek, sissy, long, hair, microphone, playing, guitar, singing, music, musical, instrument, stringed, usa, american, actress, performer, entertainer, film, star, young, mary, elizabeth, 1949

Valentin Zhuk, Russian violinist, conductor and teacher. Seen here as a young man. Date: circa 1940s

Billy Bragg, singer, songwriter, and political activist
The singer, songwriter, alternative rock musician and left-wing political activist Billy Bragg (Stephen William Bragg, b 1957). Seen here singing and playing an electric guitar. Date: circa 1980s

Gambling Room at Monte Carlo 1908
Casino tables at Monte Carlo, people playing on the roulette wheel. Date: 1908

Cemetery at Bouzareah - Algiers, Algeria Date: circa 1910s

Queen Alexandra and her sister the Dowager Empress Marie of Russia playing billiards in 1907 at their home, the Villa Hvidore near Copenhagen. Date: 1907

Crowd listening to live music on the bandstand in Battersea Park, London. Date: late 1890s

Shadow Show - Silhouette Cut-Outs 1881
A fold-out page from The Boy's Own Paper for a shadow show stand with various silhouettes surrounding, to be cut-out, to entertain children for Christmas. Date: 1881

Native American Indians Playing Lacrosse
Lacrosse was first seen by Europeans when the French, under Charlevoix explored the Indigenous peoples of the United States

SCHOOL FOR SKELETONS
A bizarre school for skeletons, with two skeletons playing a piano duet, one skeleton dunce on a chair in the corner and another skeleton carrying a basket! Date: early 1930s

An oil drum band playing festive music at the annual Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

ORGANIST & CHOIRBOY 1904
A choirboy rushes in to Monsieur Achille, the organist, who is playing the wrong kind of music: "Stop, it's not a funeral, it's a wedding!" Date: 1904

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