Routine Collection

Harlequin and Columbine: a dance routine arranged by Helene Denizon of the Fokine ballet with Everett Llelan, 1927. 1/2 Date: 1927

The Bath Parade by Muriel Dawson
Three children dressedin pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers march in a procession towards the bathroom armed with towels and soap

Doctor Examines a Child
A mother takes her little girl to a female doctor for a routine examination. She sits on the doctors knee

How WWI was fought
" As it is for most of us" World War I was a slog, described by many as " 90% routine and 10% terror." Although soldiers lived with death every day, for the most part

Flying Archers
Two archers flying through the air as part of an innovative dance routine! Date: 1930s

1950S Woman & Make-Up
A brunette woman in a pink and black spotted dress sits at her dressing table going through her beauty routine. Products include nail varnish, lipstick and perfume

Red Arrows at Gibraltar
British Aerospace Hawk T.1 trainers of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team Red Arrows, lined up waiting to start-up for their routine at the air display. Date: circa 1989

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, A. T. S. Exercise
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image depicts a group of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls following a physical exercise routine. Date: circa 1940s

Cartoons showing the activities of a diligent wartime housewife, operating without the assistance of a maid. Date: 1943

Music cover, The Handsome Territorial, Joe Loss
Music cover, The Handsome Territorial, recorded by Joe Loss and His Band, WW2. Date: 1939

Music cover, The Chestnut Tree, the Novelty Singing Dance Sensation. Date: 1938

CEGB linesmen doing maintenance work, Kent
CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board) linesmen doing routine maintenance work on the Supergrid transmission line between Northfleet and Canterbury, 24 July 1961

Yuri Gagarin and Harold Macmillan, London
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968), the Russian cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union who made history on 12 April 1961 by becoming the first human in outer space

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Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968), the Russian cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union who made history on 12 April 1961 by becoming the first human in outer space

An eccentric dance routine called Fidgety Feet performed by Edward Allen, performer in Hit the Deck, 1928 Date: 1928

The flapper and the Quarterback - Ruth Page and Jorg Fasting in a series of poses from their dance performed in recital this season, 1928 Date: 1928

The Hoffman Girls performing webbing act, London Hippodrome
The eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls performing their extraordinary acrobatic webbing act at the London Hippodrome, Leap Year, in 1924. Date: 1924

The Hoffman Girls in rehearsals
The Hoffman Girls, the dance troupe founded, managed and choreographed by Gertrude Hoffman, pictured in rehearsals for Leap Year which had had a successful run at the London Hippodrome

If Unhealthy, Be Healthy by William Heath Robinson
If Unhealthy, Be Healthy: If Healthy, Be Healthier! Keep Fit Exercises: 1. The Bathroom Window Sill Bite - for strengthening the front teeth and developing the muscles of the legs and back

Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash advertisement
Advertisement for Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash showing a maid washing the lustrous locks of her mistress. Date: 1912

Astleys Ampitheater. Paris. Date: 1800

Male Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth - Diving off a high board to start their routine... Date: 1961

Ponds Cream advertisement featuring Lady Milbanke
Advertisement for Ponds Cold Cream and Vanishing Cream endorsed by the vivid, gay and utterly charming Lady Milbanke, Australian-born socialite Sheila Chisholm

Air stewardess demonstrating oxygen mask on board a passenger plane. Date: circa 1970s

Tennal Approved School, Birmingham - Exercises
Exercise routine by boys from the Tennal Approved School (formerly Harborne School), Birmingham Date: 1940s

A young woman at her dressing table
A woman applies powder puff to her face as she beautifies herself in the mirror; make-up, perfume and clothes are scattered around the room which the maid in the background seems to be sorting out

Ponds Cold Cream Advertisement - Lady Alington
Advertisement for Ponds Cold Cream as endorsed by English aristocrat, Lady Alington, the former Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper. Date: 1931

Using Ponds Cold Cream
Illustrations depicting women using various Ponds skincare products, available in jars for use at home, or tube for when travelling. Date: 1935

Industrial Training Ship Shaftesbury - Gymnastics
The London School Boards Industrial School Ship Shaftesbury - boys perform a gymnastic routine. Date: early 1900s

Chinese Children at their daily drill (Tai Chi?). Date: circa 1910s

Facial Exercises
A young woman in a bathing cap and face cream, twists her mouth as part of her routine of facial exercises to tone the muscles and keep her face looking young and fresh. Date: 1930s

Ats Girl Cleans Up
An Auxilliary Territorial Services (A.T.S.) girl making do with a tin of paraffin and sawdust to remove grease from her hands when she comes off duty Date: 1940s

Female Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth - show
Female Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth - practising for the show, the final dress rehearsal, involving multiple performers, floats and a large lotus flower. Date: 1961

Synchronised Swimming Team End of Season Artists Ball
Synchronised Swimming Team end of season Artists Ball - Royal Exeter Hotel, Bournemouth, Dorset. Date: 1962

Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth
8-strong mixed (7 men, 1 woman) Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth, Dorset. Date: circa 1965

Aquashow - Sychronised Swimming Show Participants
Aquashow at Rhyl - Sychronised Swimming Show Participants - Princes Water Phantasy in an open air pool (" very cold!!" ) Date: 1957

Fanning hair to add strength and beauty
Edwardian beauty routine for the hair - using a fan to waft strength and beauty into ones locks! Date: 1904

Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner - Girls Drill
Girls perform a drill routine with sticks. Date: circa 1906

Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner - Boys Drill
Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner. Boys Boys perform a drill routine. Date: circa 1906

Belgian soldiers watching German shell fire, WW1
Belgian soldiers watching German shell fire on a street in the village of Grembergen, East Flanders, during the First World War

National Gymnastics Competition Caen, Parallel and High bars
National Gymnastics Competition Caen, competitors competing on the Parallel and High bars (in synchronised performance). Note the safety mat is actually a large pile of soft sand! Date: 1911

Playbill postcard for Alfs Button
The most popular manifestation of Orientalism after WWI seems to have been Alfs Button. W.A Darlingtons novel appeared in1920, was filmed (silent movie) the same year

Reduced facsimile of a Chart of Physical Exercises (supplied with Cassells Physical Educator). Date: circa 1910s

Young Ballet Dancer
A little girl performs a ballet routine with a balloon, perhaps during a ballet lesson. Date: early 1930s

LCC-LFB Brigade headquarters jumping sheet drill
Jump sheet demonstration by firefighters at Southwark HQ -- a long gone London Fire Brigade training routine. Jumping sheets were carried on front line London fire engines until late 1941 when

The Dolly Sisters by Bert Wilson
Rosie and Jenny Dolly, stage performers the Dolly Sisters pictured performing a routine in feathered costumes. Date: 1927

Aircraft Safety Check
A routine aircraft saftely check being carried out at Prestwick Airport, Scotland. Date: 1960s

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