Skills Collection (page 2)

Sport / Football / Guyana
Native Guyanese Indians play a regional variant of football, reliant it appears on keeping the ball in the air using clever ball skills

Horsemen 3 - Thessalonia
THESSALONIANS : renowned for their horse-breeding and their equestrian skills, these people of eastern Greece are depicted here defending their country against the Romans

Ghent (Gand), Belgium - Statue of / Monument to Lievin Bauwens (by sculptor Pieter De Vigne)
Ghent (Gand), Belgium - Statue of/Monument to Lievin Bauwens (by sculptor Pieter De Vigne) in the Lieven Bauwensplein Square

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Production and Combat
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Excellence in Production as well as excellence in combat Date: circa mid-1970s

Royal Tournament Rehearsal
Life Guards rehearsing a display of bare-back horse-jumping for the Royal Tournament, to be held at Olympia the following week. Date: 1932

Minnie Thompson, Dallas cowgirl in New York
Minnie Thompson from Dallas, Texas, performs horse riding feats outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, New York. She had won many prizes as a trainer of unbroken horses. Date: 1910

J. A. Gibbs National Children's Home (NCH), Penarth, Glamorg
Boys learning nautical skills at the J.A. Gibbs branch of the National Children's Home at Penarth

Woodwork classroom for boys who continued their education at Acland County Council School, Kentish Town, London. Date: 1906

Prepare for the Holidays by William Heath Robinson
A man learning how to swim without water by correspondence from a college by letter. Date: 1919

DR A R MANBY Physician to the duke of Clarence, whose skills were sadly insufficient to preserve his royal patient from an early death. Date: 1892

Comic postcard, Scene at secretarial college Date: 20th century

Marylebone School
The St Marylebone School began as the Marylebone Day School of Industry, founded in 1791 in what was then Paradise Street, now Moxon Street, to educate the children of the poor in the parish

Mounted Display of the Army School of Equitation
Mounted Display at the Royal Tournament by The Army School of Equitation (based at Weedon Bec, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England). Date: circa 1910s

Tools used in roof thatching, West Country, UK
Tools used in roof thatching in the West Country, UK. Date: circa 1960s

George Stephenson at Darlington - embroidery
Engraving of a painting by A. Rankley, " George Stephenson at Darlington in 1823." Stephenson would often drop in on Joseph Pease to talk with him about the progress of the Darlington

Fish-catching cormorants at the Hippodrome
Four cormorants, brought from China to appear at the London Hippodrome in 1905. Their act consisted of retrieving fish thrown into the water tank and when a large trout was put in

Ruysselede Reformatory, Belgium - Gymnastics class
An exercise or gymnastics class at the Ruysselede Reformatory School, Belgium. The sailing ship at the rear provided training in nautical skills. Date: Date unknown

Embroidering King Edward VIIs Coronation Robes
Needlewomen embroidering King Edward VIIs coronation robes at the Royal School of Art Needlework. 1902

Cover design, Chester School of Art Prospectus, Grosvenor Museum, 1914

Young man thatching a roof, Lamorna Cove, Cornwall
Young man thatching a roof, Lamorna Cove, Penwith, Cornwall. circa 1960s

Two men thatching a roof, Lamorna Cove, Cornwall
Two young men thatching a roof, Lamorna Cove, Penwith, Cornwall. Date: circa 1960s

Pueblo Indian drilling turquoise, New Mexico, USA
Pueblo Indian drilling turquoise for the making of necklaces, New Mexico, USA. Date: circa 1920

Navajo Indian silversmith, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Navajo Indian silversmith at work, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Date: circa 1912

Navajo Indian workroom, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. They are spinning and dyeing wool, weaving blankets and making silver ornaments. Date: circa 1920

Drystone Walls of the North - First-class drystone walling beside the River at Langdale in the Lake District: Many of the stones for the wall have been picked from the river-bed - a frequent

Bantu craftsman of Douala, Cameroon, Central West Africa
Bantu craftsman of Douala (Duala) making wooden carvings, Cameroon, Central West Africa (at the time a French colony). Date: 1922

Elderly woman with distaff and spindle, Auvergne, France
Elderly woman with distaff and spindle, Auvergne, Central France. 1922

Woman at a spinning wheel, Dinan, Brittany, Northern France
Woman at a spinning wheel near Dinan, Brittany, Northern France. 1922

Man making wooden shoes, Brittany, Northern France
Man making wooden shoes (sabots) in his workshop, Brittany, Northern France. Each shoe is carved from a single piece of wood. Date: 1922

Man making pottery, Quimper, Brittany, Northern France
Man making pottery (Breton Faience) at Quimper, Brittany, Northern France. Date: 1922

Araucanian woman weaving, Chile, South America
An Araucanian woman weaving cloth used to make ponchos, southern Chile, South America. Araucania (Araucana) is an indigenous area of Chile inhabited by the Moluche (Mapuche) people. Date: 1922

Italian Lacemakers - Santa Margherita Ligure, Liguria, Italy. Date: circa 1910s

Armenian carpet manufactory, Eastern Kurdistan. Date: 1922

Army recruits at Lincoln Racecourse, WW1
Kitcheners army - recruits at Lincoln Racecourse, being taught to use rifles, 4 September 1914, First World War. 1914

Victorian Card - Little Tailors. 19th century

Finishing Panama Hats at Maduros Souvenir Store, Panama. Date: circa 1910s

Policeman aiming his gun round the side of a car during training at the Police Gun School in North London. Date: 1960s

A sailing ship on the water, part of an ocean sailing school. A boy is helped on board from a rowing boat. Date: circa 1964

Duke and Duchess of York - Ashtead Potteries, Surrey
Duke and Duchess of York visiting the Ashtead Potteries, Surrey - founded to train disabled ex-servicemen in pottery. Date: 1928

Japan - Ainu woman weaving. Date: circa 1920s

Shoemaker 1855
Old shoemaker sitting on a low stool making shoes. Date: 1855

Homes for Little Boys at Farningham 1905
Homeless and destitute children at Homes for Little Boys, Farningham, Swanley. Young boys given a training in a trade or schooling to provide them with the best opportunities for their adulthood

CLIMBING THE POLE / FAIR
Climbing the pole. This game originated from an idea by M. Franck, a doctor who decided that humans should re-learn such skills previously used to climb trees & forage for food

Jasper Maskelyne
JASPER MASKELYNE English stage magician who used his skills of illusion in the Middle East during World War Two Date: 1902 - 1973

LADY RIDER AND GENT
A lady riding sidesaddle causes a gentleman to raise his hands - but whether at her riding skills, her beauty or her recklessness, who knows ? Date: circa 1660

JANUS & CIVILISATION JANUS & CIVILISATION
The Roman god of exits and entrances, credited with bringing civilisation to Italy - the practical skills, the sciences and the arts

Mrs Salmons waxworks
Equivalent to todays Madame Tussauds. Owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Salmon. She made and sold toys had modelling skills and taught wax portraiture In addition

FRENCH LADY FENCERS (2)
Two pairs of female fencers practise their skills. (2 of 2) Date: 1885

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