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Girls Playing CricketTwo energetic and enthusiastic girls playing cricket. One girl screeches to a halt with her cricket bat, whilst the other tries to catch her out at the wicket!
STICK EM UPStick em up ! Boys playing with guns on the street
CHRISTs COLLEGE 1690A bird s-eye view of the college showing the chapel, dining hall, library, the Deans lodgings & garden, the kitchen & an area for playing le jeu de paume (real tennis ?)
Boys playing rugby football at Rugby School
Wwi / Xmas Truce / 1914English & German troops fraternising on Christmas Day, chasing a hare and playing a football match (the German team won)
Boys on an 18th century fire engine, WirksworthBoys playing on an 18th century fire engine at Wirksworth, Derbyshire. It was believed to be the oldest fire engine in England, dating back to 1721, made by Newsome
Battledore & shuttlecock by Susan Beatrice PearseTwo little girls play battledore and shuttlecock, or badminton on a fine summers day
W. Heath RobinsonCartoon, Safety First. A Cricket forecast for 1922 showing the new safety equipment for playing cricket, which is health and safety gone mad
Golf / French LadyA French lady golfer prepares to hit the ball
Musical Instruments 1883Various musicians playing various instruments: a harp, a lyre, pipes, hunting horn. Pipes of Pan are also in evidence
Pigs Playing Tennis 1904Pigs playing tennis
Group of Bridge PlayersMen and women playing the fashionable game of bridge
Groomsport, Co. Down - a village street scene with thatched cottages and church on the right and children playing in the middle of the road. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Groomsport)
Barclays London Lager advertisement with tennisAdvertisement for Barclays London Lager, showing two refreshing looking glasses ready and waiting for some tennis players who can be seen on a grass court in the distance. Date: 1928
Liquorice Allsorts
Handel as a ChildGEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL Young Georg Friedrich is found by his parents at the keyboard in the middle of the night... Date: 1685 - 1759
Persian musiciansThree seated Persian musicians, playing a hand drum, what looks like a daf and a kamanche. A tonbak, or goblet drum, lies discarded on the ground. Date: 1870s
Grit by Wilmot LuntA young caddy takes a rest while a golfer tenaciously (and with increasing fury) attempts to get the ball out of a sandy bunker. Date: 1927
Trinidad Carnival BandAn oil drum band playing festive music at the annual Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968
Silhouette portrait of PaganiniSilhouette portrait of Niccolo Paganini (1782 - 1840), virtuoso Italian violinist, cut by August Edouart. Paganini considered this to be the only likeness taken of him that was not a caricature
Dewars advertisementAdvertisement for Dewars White Label whiskey showing four gentlemen smartly attired in evening wear enjoying a game of cards - and a glass of Dewar s. 1934
Playing billiardsBilliardists. Billiardist Morningstar standing at a pool table, preparing to hit a ball with his cue
Infants playground, Lambeth Schools, West Norwood, LondonInfants (girls and boys together) at play at the Lambeth Schools for workhouse children on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. A young Charlie Chaplin was briefly a resident of the Schools in 1898
Just Off by Muriel DawsonA solemn little girl in a blue pinafore, pushes a bright red toy pram containing her dolls
Cover design for Narcisse by Nikolai TcherepninCover design for Narcisse, a mythological poem set to music by the Russian composer Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (1873-1945)
Airing Court at Fountain Mental Hospital, Tooting, SurreyChildren and nurses enjoy playing with toys in an airing court at the Fountain Hospital at Tooting in Surrey (now South London)
Bembridge Lifeboat StnThe Lifeboat Station at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England
Girl Plays Ping PongA girl in a flowing pink dress plays ping pong
Topping Book / LacrosseEnglish schoolgirl playing lacrosse Date: circa 1935
Front cover of The Bystander by BarribalTwo young ladies playing in the sea
M. Pease Golfing 1927The Hon. Miriam Pease playing golf at North Berwick links, Scotland
Bridge Club TournamentWell-dressed ladies and gentlemen taking part in a tournament at the new bridge club
Girl Driving Toy Cara Young Lady Driver
Ladies Playing Cards / C20The ladies playing cards
Kitten TrumpeterA mischievous black and white kitten playing a trumpet!
Soldiers Relaxing Ww1Sikh and English soldiers in the British army enjoy a relaxed time chatting and playing a game of cards
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon, the little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon
Girls playing in Milton Street, Belfast, Northern IrelandTwo little girls playing in Milton Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, swinging on ropes round a lamppost. Date: 1969
Playing billiardsW. Hoppe. Billiardist William F. Hoppe standing at a pool table, preparing to hit a ball with his cue
Revolutionary CardsPlaying cards of the Revolution by Jaume and DuCourc
Advert / Elliman EmbrocatiEllimans embrocation for rheumatism, lumbago and sprains
Playing with Cake MixA little girl plays with the cake mix with a wooden spoon
Cover design, Ovaltine ABC Rhyme Book - a happy family with a giant Ovaltine tin. Date: early 20th century
Model planeModel aeronautics Date: c. 1930s
Playing billiardsMrs. Frances Hoppe & Her Son Willie. Mrs. Frances Hoppe playing billiards with her son Willie (William F. Hoppe) in a billiard room with seated spectators watching
Horn Lesson in a Wine CellarA group of gentlemen and a small boy congregate in a wine cellar to practice playing the horn whilst enjoying a drink or two (non-alcoholic for the small boy of course)
Alphabet / D for DucksD - for ducks, swimming, diving, and playing together