Skates Collection (page 4)

The latest craze - ballet on skates, 1929
Photographs reporting on the craze for ice dancing over normal dancing in 1929. The skaters featured were performing ice cabaret at the Hammersmith Ice-Drome which opened on 30 December 1929

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

Tango craze: a tango on roller skates, 1913
Mrs Philips Roberts and Mr S. H Easton embrace the latest dance craze by perform the notoriously complicated tango, but on rollers skates, at the Holland Park Hall Rink. Date: 1913

Ice hockey Inniskillings
Soldiers from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, probably in Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, around 1911 posing for a photograph on a frozen river

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

Ice Sweeper
A man on ice skates, sweeping the ice with a broom. Date: early 1930s

Marketing on Skates
A girl on ice skates, selling her hot food and drink on a frozen river in Holland. Date: early 1930s

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

Mr Pickwick slides on the Ice - The Pickwick Papers Date: circa 1910s

Owner and Staff of a Rollerskating rink
A wheely great photographic postcard of the owner and principal staff of a Rollerskating Rink in Northern England. The floor is marked showing that the participants performed very neat circles around

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

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

Skate store - skates of all kinds for sale here WW Knight So

A boy walks through the snow carrying ice skates, Budge was taking his skates. Date: early 20th century

Rollerskating Chaps
Two jolly chaps enjoying a spot of rollerskating, wearing fancy dress (the gentleman on the right has a fake beard and moustache painted onto his face!). Date: circa 1906

Girl Ice Skater
A teenage girl ice skating in an Alpine setting. Date: 1930s

Model Ice Skater
Bye darling, I m off for a spot of ice skating! A model waves at the camera, her ice skates under her arm. Date: 1930s

Two children on the ice, a boy on skates, pushing a girl in a sledge. 19th century

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

Girl and boy skating 19th century

Man and woman on the ice -- he is wearing skates, pushing her along in a chair. early 20th century

Ice Skating Girl 1930S
A young woman ties the laces on her ice skates. Date: 1930s

Britannia and Eve magazine, January 1938
Front cover illustration featuring a curly-haired woman, wrapped up in a woollen hat and scarf, with a pair of ice-skates slung over her shoulder

Double page spread in a diary for 9-14 January
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 9-14 January. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Doe Lea Village, Mining
Village life in Doe Lea in the 1960 s, a mining village in Derbyshire, England. A young girl on roller skates on a street of Victorian terraced housing

Girls Naval Training Corps
A group of girls from the Girls Naval Training Corps (similar to that of the Sea Cadets for boys, and later to be joined) competing for the Blue Peter Cup in 1952; a 24 hour expedition using as many

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."

Four skating boys, by Florence Hardy. Each boy is wearing a different coloured suit, and a matching or contrasting hat: blue, yellow, green and red

Winter girl 1814 by Florence Hardy
A small girl dressed in a fetching red Regency style dress and bonnet skates skilfully across a frozen pond managing to hold both a fur muff and a bunch of holly simultaneously

The Humorist Christmas Number 1938 - An Ice Proposal
Front cover illustration by William Heath Robinson featuring a group of skaters on a frozen pond. A man etches a question mark on the ice with his skates and his girlfriend responds

Children Costume 1937
Clothing styles available for little French boys and girls including coats, dresses and shorts

Dryden / Skating Wear / 201
Gentleman in skating wear

Roller-Skating / Margate
Young girl on roller-skating rink at Dreamland, Margate

Ice skating scene
An ice skating scene, with an athletic male skater in the foreground, a couple further back, and a non-skating man with his non-skating dog

Skating Waiters 1923
At the finest Alpine resorts, waiters bring your champagne on ice skates

French Ice Skater 1813
An elegant Parisian fellow skates smoothly along, with his arms folded

Roller-Skate Wedding
Jolly Berliners celebrate a wedding on roller-skates; one chap has fallen, whilst a portly lady looks wobbly - the bride and groom skate on

Skating Costume 1899
Brown fur-trimmed costume: short coat with rounded basque, cord trim, tight sleeves with gathered puff & ankle length gored skirt. N.B Minks head on the collar

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