Rocky Gallery

Athletic Sports at Grasmere - The Guides Race

The Guides Race at Grasmere showing the plucky runners rounding the flag on Silver Howe - a particularly precarious part of the course. The winner was R. Lancaster who won the race four times in all. He also won the Colton Jubilee Veteran's race at the age of 60

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10240189

Athletic, Cumbria, Danger, Dangerous, District, Extreme, Flag, Grasmere, Guides, Hills, Historical, History, Howe, Lake, Lakes, Mountains, Outcrop, Race, Rocky, Runners, Silver, Sports, Steep, Win

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

© Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Lucinda Gosling/Mary Evans

Bulls, Camp, Campers, Camping, Field, Funny, Heath, Historical, History, Holiday, Holidays, Humorous, Humour, Lake, Pitching, Ridiculous, Robinson, Rocky, Silly, Site, Steep, Stream, Summer, Tent

Sliven, Bulgaria - The Sinite Kamani rocks

Sliven, Bulgaris. The famous rocky massif Sinite Kamani ('The Blue Rocks') and the associated national park, the fresh air and the mineral springs offer diverse opportunities for leisure and tourism, which has been the case for well over a centruy as this card attests

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1905, Air, Blue, Bulgaria, Bulgaris, Famous, Features, Flora, Fresh, Geological, Geology, Health, Historical, History, Kamani, Landscape, Leisure, Massif, Mineral, National, Natural, Nature, Park, Phenomena, Rock, Rocks, Rocky, Sinite, Sliven, Springs, Tourism