Shorts Collection (page 6)

Family of five with picnic on beach
A suntanned family of five enjoying a picnic on the beach. Date: circa 1970s

Little boys standing near the beach, Perranporth, Cornwall
Two little boys standing in sand dunes looking at the beach, Perranporth, North Cornwall. Date: circa 1960s

Scene at the Festival of Fools, Penzance, Cornwall -- a violinist named Wilfred entertains three small children. Date: circa 1970s

John Reynolds, footballer for both Ireland and England
John Jack Reynolds (1869-1917), footballer who played for both the Ireland and England.national teams, as well as West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa, Celtic and Southampton. 1890s

Hughie Wilson, Sunderland and Scotland footballer
Hughie Lalty Wilson (1869-1940), Sunderland and Scotland international footballer. 1890s

People walking in different directions on crowded street, Ho
People walking in different directions on a crowed street in Hong Kong. Figure of a thin elderly Chinese?s man in white tee shirt and black shorts in close view

Group photo, St Ives football team (Huntingdonshire)
Group photo, St Ives football team. Back row, left to right: H Mence, E Kiddle, G B Ulph, Houghton, Gifford (goalkeeper), F Russell; middle row: Freeman, H Copley, F M Warren

Cause and Effect by Wallis Mills - tennis fashion cartoon
The new fashion for tennis shorts inspires one player to discard her dress and play in her underwear, much to the consternation and shock of some elderly female spectators. Date: 1931

Liverpool FC football team 1924-1925
Liverpool FC football team, 1924-1925 season. Date: 1924-1925

Raith Rovers FC football team 1936. Back row: Allan (Captain), Sneddon, Paterson, M Neil, Crichton, Gilbert. Front row: Wilson, Denholm, Fulton, Philp, Dobbie. Date: 1936

Stenhousemuir FC football team 1936. Back row: Turnbull, Smith, Jack, Fraser, Paterson, Murray (Captain). Front row: Murray, Roughhead, Crawford, Marshall, Howie. Date: 1936

Barrow FC football team 1936. Back row: Lowes (Secretary Manager), Hopkinson, Kitson, Postlethwaite (Chairman), Pickard, Hunter, Allcock (Captain)

West Bromwich Albion FC football team 1936. Back row: Reed, Keys (Director), Trentham, Pearson, Carter, Round (Director), Jephcott (Director)

Oldham Athletic FC football team 1936. Back row: Mellor (Secretary), Gray, Brunskill, Hilton, Church, Seymour (Captain), Robson, Tufnell (Trainer). Front row: Agar, Davis, Walsh, Leedham, Buckley

Liverpool FC football team 1936. Back row: Rogers, Nieuwenhuys, Dabbs, Browning, Carr, Tennant, Neal, Harley, Bush. Third row: Wilson (Trainer), Bradshaw, Low, Glassey, Savage, McDougall, Riley

Chester FC football team 1936. Back row: Wrightson, Pitcairn, Burke, Skitt, Hall, Ross (Trainer). Front row: Common, Horsman, Williams, Wilson (Captain), Cresswell, Sargeant. Date: 1936

Dundee FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Quskley (Trainer), Morgan, Richards, Marsh, Guthrie (Captain), Wemyss, Smith, M Candless (Secretary Manager)

Sunderland FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Urwin, McNab, Spuhler, Ferry, Saunders, Bell, Wilkinson. Middle row: Russell, Royston, Thorpe, Ainsley, Ives, McDowall, Scott, Middleton, Lockie

Andrew Newton Jnr, World Champion middleweight boxer
Andrew Newton Jnr (1900-1980), World Champion middleweight blind ball puncher and boxer, Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1920s

Arsenal FC football team c 1922-1923. Back row: Voysey, Rutherford, Dunn, Boreham, Graham. Front row: Baker, White, Young, Bradshaw, Turnbull, Patterson. Date: circa 1922-1923

Plymouth Argyle FC football team c 1922-23. Back row: Devine, Cosgrove, Muir, Cook, Corcoran, Frost, Little, Miller. Second row: Haynes, Leathlean, Hill, Logan, Robert Jack (Secretary), Jobson

Edward (Gunboat) Smith, boxer, actor and referee
Edward (Gunboat) Smith (1887-1974), Irish-American heavyweight boxer, film actor and (later) boxing referee. Seen here in a boxing pose. early 1900s

Manchester United FC football team 1935. Back row: Bamford, Griffiths, Porter, Breedon, Manley, Vose, McKay, Curry (Trainer). Front row: Bryant, Mutch, Brown, Rowley, Chester. Date: 1935

Walthamstow Avenue FC football team 1936. Back row: Took (Honorary Secretary), Wright, Oliver, Mercer, Pinner, Hicks, Garner (Trainer), Childs, Barlow

Sutton United FC football team 1936. Back row: Reeve, Pettitt, Carr, Miller, Delventhal, Whistler. Front row: Jordan, Tarrant, Shepherd (Captain), Solly, Pratt. Date: 1936

Rotherham United FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Ford, Curry, Hawkins, Clough, Birkitt, Heelbeck (Captain), Dickinson. Front row: Reid, Smith, Bastow, Fenoughty, Dobson. Date: 1934-1935

Tranmere Rovers FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Knowles (Secretary), Spencer, Platt, McLaren (Captain), Gray, Amery, Bradshaw, Carr (Manager), Hurrell (Director)

Gateshead FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Moore, Spedding, Robinson, Talbot, Allen, Neilson, Inskip, Dawson (Trainer)

Manchester City FC football team 1934-1935. Back row: Chorlton (Trainer), Dale, Busby (Captain), Cowan, Swift, Donnelly, Bray, Percival, Barkas, Barnett (Assistant Trainer)

Floral cotton anorak by Neatawear, 1965
Model wearing a summer anorak in a cotton floral print by Neatawear, matched with a bra and hipster shorts. Date: 1965

Boy in school uniform with luggage
A boy in school uniform with luggage -- a bag and a rolled up blanket. Date: circa 1920s

Boy and girl on a street in Balham, SW London
A boy and a girl sitting on a wall on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1960s

Rock climbing at Bosigran, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Brunei scouts at Tutong Camp, Borneo, south-east Asia, during a visit from the Chief Scout (Lord Rowallan). Date: 1954

Mike Read with Radio 1 Roadshow group
Mike Read (left), radio DJ and presenter, with a BBC Radio 1 Roadshow group

Having Fun by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl at the seaside with bucket, spade and pet dog. Date: 1943

Three people sitting on running board of car
Three people, a man and two women, sitting on the running board of a rather smart car

Three people with a car
Three people, a man and two women, posing alongside a car with an a badge on the front

British troops marching to Baghdad, Mesopotamia, WW1
British troops marching to Baghdad, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Sprint Cyclist
A sprint cyclist. Date: 1980s

Welsh Youth Hostel
The old lifeboat house at Port Eynon, Glamorganshire, Wales, which was later used as a Youth Hostel. Date: 1950s

King George VI in shorts
King George VI on a reminder of one of his many visits to the Duke of Yorks camp at Southwold, where every year 200 young workers share a weeks holiday with 200 public schoolboys. 1936

A Kenyan Askari - Nairobi, Kenya (then British East Africa), standing to rigid attention in full ceremonial costume Date: 1918

Group of boys at Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
A large group of boys at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. They are sitting on a grassy bank wearing identical uniform

London Life magazine front cover, August 1966
Front cover of London Life magazine, the short-lived magazine which captured swinging sixties London, featuring a model wearing orange shorts

Gertrude Moran, American tennis player known as Gorgeous Gussie by Wimbledon fans, due in part to the frilly pants designed by Teddy Tinling she wore in 1949

Family running across sand dunes
A family of four -- mother, father and two children -- running happily across the sand dunes on a beach in Cornwall

Lady Ashley at Monte Carlo wearing the latest fashion, a pair of well-cut khaki shorts

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