Splashing Collection (#2)

Riders and horses in the water on a Christmas card, watched by a bull. Date: circa 1890s

Five boys, one swimming, on a birthday card
Five boys, one of them swimming, on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Puppy dog howling as his brother flounders in river
Twin puppy Snap howling on the riverbank as his brother Snip flounders in the water. Date: 1910

Nos Loisirs magazine cover - summer holiday 1923
Front cover of Nos Loisirs magazines showing children paddling at the seaside and a fashionably dressed mama on the beach watching the fun

Bottlenose Dolphin - Swimming at speed through water (Tursiops truncatus). Dolphins can reach 65 km per hour

Bottlenose Dolphins - Swimming at speed through water (Tursiops truncatus). Dolphins can reach 65 km per hour

Bottlenose Dolphin - Tail dancing (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose Dolphin jumping with crowd watching in background (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose Dolphin amusing the crowd with a tail dance (Tursiops truncatus)

African Bush / Savanna Elephant - baby elephant splashing in water in a waterhole (Loxodonta africana). Etosha National Park, Namibia

Family of four paddling in the sea
A happy family of four paddling in the sea. Date: 1960s

British soldiers having fun in a boat, WW1
British soldiers having fun in a boat during a rest break on the Western Front in France, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Two boys in swimsuits sitting on a rock, watching something (perhaps a bird) splashing in the water

Cheeky young Puppy avoids bathtime
A cheeky young pup escapes the possibility of bathtime by making a run for it from his wooden tub. Brother and Sister are about to give chase! Date: circa 1950s

Beauty and the Beast - Bathing Humour, featuring a hairy, rather ugly man surrounded in the surf by a bevvy of bathing beauties! Date: circa 1905

Young man splashing a young woman with water at the beach. Date 1913 July 30

Boys having fun during Medway floods, Kent
A group of boys having fun on their way home from school after the River Medway overflowed its banks. All along the Upper Medway Valleys from Maidstone to Tunbridge

Bystander masthead design, 1927 - Beach scene
Illustration for the Bystander masthead showing a 1920s woman reclining on a beach while her friends enjoy splashing about in the sea. Date: 1927

Fountain Fun
Two girls wearing bathing caps, splashing around in a fountain. Date: 1930s

Little boys first traumatic experience of the sea
A little boys first (rather traumatic) experience of taking a dip in the sea, despite soothing and encouraging words from Mama. Date: circa 1910s

Poster, Theres Health in the Bath Tub, showing a happy baby splashing about in the bath. Issued by the Health and Cleanliness Council. 20th century

Model messing about in the surf
A model (Gill Emberton) pictured messing about i the seaside surf

Who Cares ? by Muriel Dawson
A little boy in a smart red coat and trousers with wellington boots or galoshes splashes carelessly through the shallows on a beach and asks, " Who Cares

Boys Club swimming 1935
A group of boys from a Boys Club take their afternoon exercise in the sea, swimming and splashing All have one piece costumes and one boy has a ball

Shampoo Sir?
Swimming. Illustration by Frederick Parker showing 1920s bathing belles splashing a bemused male swimmer

Olympics / 1932 / Hurdles
Mens 3000 metre hurdles: Evenson (Great Britain) wins the heat, but comes 2nd in the final

Elephants Bathing C1840
Regents Park, London : an elephant in his bath

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