Skate Collection (page 3)

Jolly Ice Skating Pair
A colourful couple skate together. Date: 1914

Tatler advertisment for Winslows Skates
Advertisement in the Tatler of 27th October 1909 for Winslows Skates, described as the best roller skates possess the maximum of fine qualities and used in all the best rinks throughout the world

Le Pole Nord (North Pole)
Promotional postcard for Le Pole Nord showing a couple in Edwardian dress skating. Date: circa 1900

Snow scene with skaters on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Young woman skating on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Moonlit scene with skaters on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Four ladies and boy on the ice on a Christmas card
Four ladies and a boy in a sailor suit skating on the ice on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Children skating and sledding on a New Year card
Children having fun skating and sledding on a New Year card, with a sentimental verse. Date: circa 1870s

Two girls skating on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl skating on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Prince Projatipok of Siam at Murren
Prince Pojatipok, heir to the Siamese throne, learning to ice skate at society ski resort, Murren in the Swiss Alps. The Tatler reports that

Lady Moss jumping a table on ice skates
Lady (Penelope) Moss, the expert skater jumping a table at which sit Miss Moss and Mr Eric Muirsmith, while practising for the Murren Ice Gymkhana. Date: 1928

Cephaloptera Giorna, or Ox Ray, also known as Horned Ray. Date: 1862

Leucoraja fullonica, or Shagreen Ray, also known as Rough Flapper, French Ray and Dun Cow. Date: 1862

Raia radiata, or Starry Ray. Date: 1862

Raia oxyrhynchus, or Burton Skate
Raia oxyrhynchus, also known as Burton Skate, White Skate, Sharp-Nosed Ray, Friar Skate and Mavis Skate. Date: 1862

Dipturus intermedia, or Flapper Skate. Date: 1862

Society at Grosvenor House ice rink, 1929
Fashionable society taking up a fashionable pastime in 1929. An impression of the splendid ice rink at Grosvenor House by Helen McKie. Date: 1929

Bystander masthead 1929, society at an ice rink
Lovely illustrated design by Howard K. Elcock for The Bystander magazines masthead depicting fashionable society at an ice rink

Skating suit from Harrods, 1929
A practical skating suit for wearing to the rinks of fashionable winter resorts. The blouse is of black stockinette, relieved with black and white to match the check skirt

Skating on a frozen pond
A group of young children skate together under winter skies. Artist: Harriet Bennett Date: 1900

Ice skaters skate over a frozen river
Black and white. Ice skaters skate over a frozen river with bridge and trees in the background. The main subject of the photograph is a man skating away from the camera and looking back at it

HMS Skate, British destroyer
HMS Skate (D16), British destroyer. Date: circa 1935

London in Winter - Skating at Princes Skating Club in Knightsbridge. A couple skating, taking tea on the promenade and having ones skates put on under the Band Stand Date: 1914

Dutch couple skating, by Florence Hardy
A Dutch couple skating on a frozen river, by Florence Hardy. Date: early 20th century

The Great Monohan - Record-breaking Roller Skater
G.S. Monohan ( The Great Monohan ) showing off his skills on his roller skates - here jumping cleanly over three chairs. Date: circa 1909

Green skate illustration
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Raja marginata, skate egg case
Specimen jar containing the egg case of a skate (Raja marginata), popularly known as a mermaids purse. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Children skating through the snow
A little boy and girl link arms and skate through the snowy countryside. Date: c. 1920

Girl iceskating
A little girl dressed in a pink coat and matching hat, skates along while holding a sprig of holly. Date: c. 1910

Pond skating
Children skating on a pond c. 1920

Boy ice-skating
A boy, wrapped up for the winter weather, skates past a fir tree. 1910

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Central Park Skate Emporium. Date c1889 Dec. 18

Decorative Christmas frieze - ice skating
A decorative frieze illustrated with skaters enjoying a glide on a frozen lake. 1920s

Dog & Bone on Skate
A butcher gives a dog a bone, only its on a roller skate. How does that work? Date: 1960s

Two ice skaters - one falling over
Quite from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: " He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural." The perfect accompaniment to this humorous cartoon postcard depicting a suave

Skating and sledging
Four people skating and sledging on the ice. early 20th century

Frieslanders Skate 1871
Women from Friesland, northern Holland, race on the ice. Date: 1871

Ice Skating Couple 1901
A smart couple skate in harmony; she in a state of bliss, while his mind is perhaps elsewhere... Date: 1901

Finnish Skater
A young Finnish woman demonstrates her ability to skate elegantly despite encumbering clothing and holding her child on her shoulders... Date: circa 1860

Skating by John Hassall
A group of boys enjoy some rough and tumble while sledging and skating in the snow

Homeward Bound by Ethel Parkinson
Homeward Bound -- three children make their way home across the ice. Two boys are skating, while a little girl sits on a sled, cradling her doll. One of the boys is carrying a large holly branch

Winter Sport in Switzerland
Holiday-makers enjoying the winter season at Murren in Switzerland. Commander and Mrs Locker-Lampson pose on their sledge whilst Viscount Gort and Dr. and Mrs Walpole seem happy on their skis

He who hesitates is lost, by Florence Hardy
A Dutch boy and girl skating on a frozen lake. The boy holds a bunch of mistletoe in his hand. The greeting reads " Wishing you every Happiness."

The Winter-Sports Season
Attractive garbs for snowy hills: Miss Marie Lancret, the pretty Parisian actress chamingly arrayed for the ski or the skate

The Hostess who Invited a few Friends to Skate in her Privat
Humorous illustration by H.M. Bateman showing a distraught society lady, aghast at the sight of her house guests standing chest deep in the not very frozen lake she had encouraged them to skate upon

A skater and her poem by Florence Hardy
Away away, come follow me! For the North, wind blows, and the smooth ice glows, where the merry skaters be. A skater attempts to convince her friends to join her and come skating

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