Skip Collection

Family of pigs at play on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Skegness is SO bracing - McGill parody of Hassall poster
Skegness is SO bracing - A Donald McGill parody of the famous Jolly Fisherman poster created by artist John Hassall in 1908 for the Great Northern Railway (GNR)

WW1 - Victory - Scottish & English soldiers with French lass
WW1 - Now we ARE alright - Victory - Scottish and English soldiers arm-in-arm with a French lovely jauntily skipping along a Paris Boulevard. Date: 1918

Cornish Pixie Sub-title Famous Fairies Text Hop
Cornish, Pixie, Sub-title, Famous, Fairies, Text, Hop, and, skip, o'er, dales, hills, Children's, Postcard, design, Watercolour, painting, Lorna, Steele, 12022542

Music cover, I m Sister to the Cure, Valse Comique by H T Swatton, sung by E Marshall, dedicated to C Morton, drawn by Alfred Concanen

Girls skipping in a park, early 19th century
Girls playing the skipping game of Walking under the Arch, boy playing hoop, while another girl watches. Scene in a Paris park

CHILDREN SKIP / GLASGOW
A group of girls skipping in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

Three girls with skipping rope - plaza, Es Castell, Menorca
Three girls with a skipping rope in the plaza - Placa des Esplanada - in Es Castell, Menorca, Spain. The red building is part of the old military barracks Date: 2013

Man on gate outside seafood processing factory shovels ice
A man sits on a gate outside a seafood processing factory and shovels ice into a red skip. The ice is used during the processing of scallops in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland

Good Friday skipping contest, Alciston, East Sussex
Good Friday skipping contest outside the Rose Cottage Inn at Alciston, East Sussex, an annual event for which the road is officially closed. Date: 1960s

Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915

Skipping by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Three little girls play with a skipping rope in a field of flowers. c.1925

Bears playing in their enclosure
The reverse of this card reads: Even the bears have to learn how to skip in Switzerland - don t you think they are very clever

Steep hillside with railway track Sydhaus Oerne, Pacific
Steep hillside with narrow gauge railway track and side-tipping skip wagons, Sydhaus Oerne, South Sea Islands, Pacific Ocean. Date: 1914

Children skipping in a street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Children skipping in a street in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

New Year card, Children with skipping rope
New Year card, Four children with a skipping rope. late 19th century

George Ernest Studdy, giant tortoise and frog
George Ernest Studdy, illustration for an animal book. I know I ve always been slow, said Mrs Giant Tortoise, so today being my hundredth birthday I m going to learn to skip! Date: 1941

Narrow gauge railway with men and skip wagon
Narrow gauge railway with men, tipper skip wagon loaded with rocks, and quarry buildings. Date: circa 1920

Cats and kittens skipping on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

The Day, Heath Robinson
The Day: The Germans Come - and are " Terror-ised". Incidents of the Coming German Invasion of England-from the British side, by Heath Robinson

Two girls skipping on a Balham street, SW London
Two girls skipping in the roadway on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Dutch cub scout skipping with a rope, Netherlands
A Dutch cub scout skipping with a rope, Netherlands

Aboriginal children skipping
Australian aboriginal children skipping, published by Raphael Tuck. Date: 1905

Girls playing in street
Girls playing with a skipping rope in the street Date: 1930s

Young girl with a skipping rope
Pretty young girl from Manchester with a skipping rope Date: circa 1910s

Little boy and his dog frolic in a meadow
Silhouette depicting a boy and his dog frolic in a meadow c. 1920

France (1903). Coal mine. Engraving

Home Chat front cover by H. L. Oakley
Front cover of Home Chat magazine featuring a lovely image by silhouette artist H. L. Oakley of a group of children holding hands as they skip along a beach, buckets and spades at the ready

Little girl with a skipping rope
A little girl with a skipping rope. first published 1881

Three girls with skipping ropes
Three girls with their skipping ropes on a village green. 1880

Skipping in the Street
A young girl lands on the rope whilst skipping with friends

Little girl in green skipping with a rope
A little girl dressed entirely in green, skipping with a rope

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