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The Palio, Siena, ItalyThe Palio - a spectacular (if rather dangerous for riders and spectators) horse race, run round the Piazza del Campo in Siena
Starting Post, Saratoga Race Course, NY State, USAJockeys and their horses, including War Admiral, approaching the Starting Post, Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, New York State, USA. Date: 1939
The Fountain, Wilton, Wiltshire - Inauguration ceremony. The large circular water trough and fountain sit beside the A30, now just inside the River Wylye recreation field
Swiss Mountain RailwayThe Swiss have more mountains than most people - and more railways to carry you up them. This is the electric rack- railway of Gernergrat, starting at Zermatt
Poster, Exide, The Long Life Car Battery, needs no handle to its name. circa 1945
Bookmaker - Turf Accountant - James Dowsett of 38 Duke Street, Brighton. circa 1950s
Shrove Tuesday Football Match, Kingston-Upon-Thames, 1846Engraving showing the traditional game of football, played on Shrove Tuesday, in the marketplace of Kingston-Upon-Thames. This match was played between the Thames-Street Club and the Townsend team
1903-Trouble; 1930-Reliability: The Motor cars wonderful adSix photographs illustrating the development of the motor car over a period of 27 years starting with the old Siddeley of 1903 next to its latest descendant of the time
Motocross ScramblersMuddy bikers revving up their engines between the starting strings at a Motocross scrambling race. Date: 1980s
Muybridge - Runningsequences of an athlete starting to run
Sheepdog Trials. Bringing in the sheep, starting the dog, driving the sheep and finally trying to get them into the pen
Myth / Icarus by RichmondIcarus starting out on his flight
Amelia Earhart; Wilmer Stultz (r) and Louis GordonAmelia Earhart, centre; Wilmer Stultz, pilot, right; and Louis Gordon, co-pilot. Burry Port, Wales, after their non-stop flight from Newfoundland starting on 17 June 1928. Date: 1928
The Town of San Gimignano, Italy, 1944Photograph showing the eleventh-century hill-top town of San Gimignano, near Siena, Italy, prior to July 1944. Later that month the Illustrated London News reported that a German artillery
The Goal in Sight - Two Scotsmen fired up in race for ScotchThe Goal in Sight - Two Scotsmen fired up in a race for the First Prize of a bottle of Scotch Whisky! Date: 1916
Muybridge - Walk and Runman walking - and starting to run
Tabard Inn, SouthwarkSouthwark: the Tabard Inn as it looked in 1810: several centuries earlier, Chaucers pilgrims left for Canterbury from here
Christmas morning swim in the SerpentinePage from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring various sketches of the Christmas morning swimming handicap in the Serpentine in Hyde Park
Chamberlain Clock in BirminghamThe Chamberlain Clock, Birmingham, erected to commemorate Joseph Chamberlains tour of South Africa 1902-3 after the end of the Second Boer War
Starting the days war - the Gudeli Track, WW1The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. Starting the days war - the Gudeli Track. By Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945). 1917-1918
Cohens Full Cream Dairy van, BirminghamCohens Full Cream Dairy van, a Ford van shaped like a milk churn, Victoria, Birmingham. Date: circa 1920s
Start of a Womens Sledging CompetitionStart of a Womens Luge (Sledging) Competition at the Hotel Bristol in the Territet Suburb of Montreux Switzerland. Date: 1909
Ernest Willows and his mechanic, W GooddenErnest Willows and his mechanic, W. Goodden, starting at Wormwood Scrubs on the flight to Paris in the Willows No3 City of Cardiff airship on 4 November 1910
Family / Grace before MealPapa, mama, son and two daughters say grace before starting to eat
London Museum 1914Starting life in 1911 in Kensington Palace, this Museum moves in 1914 to these premises at Lancaster House, St James, before going back to Kensington Palace after WW2
Hiller YH-32 Hornet 55-4963United States Army - Hiller YH-32-UH Hornet 55-4963 (msn 7), at an air display on a US Naval Air Station, (note the single-bladed tail-rotor and the hand-held starting engine)
Group of children lining-up on the starting line for a raceSunny Snaps postcard showing a group of children lining-up on the starting line for a running race - South Coast holiday Camp resort. Date: 1936
Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA, which inugurated the fir?Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA, which inugurated the first helicopter-operated public mail service in the UK on 1 June 1948, starting from Peterborough. Date: 1948
Regimental Sports - 27th Inniskillings, Tianjin, ChinaRegimental Sports - 27th Inniskillings, Tianjin, Northern China - 13th May 1911. Western nations were permitted to garrison the area to ensure open access to Beijing
Starting a gold mine in South Africa - Victorian period
Starting a new gold mine, South Africa
Samuel Cody assorted memorabiliaEARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Extremely important Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate No.9, 1910, issued to S. F
Transatlantic Sailings leaflet, various shipping lines, mentioning largest steamers in the world, Olympic and Titanic. The sailing schedule shows an image of Olympic and Titanic on the cover
Innovative Starting GateAn innovative starting gate, designed by Professor H. Rottenburg, being tested at a public schools athetics meeting. Date: 1932
Regatta at RydeA starting gun signals the beginning of a yacht race as part of a regatta at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Date: 1931
Swans in the LakeOil painting showing five swans. One of them is frantically flapping their wings and starting to take off. Date: circa 1929
Caricature illustration, The Starting Price by Rene Vincent. Showing fashionable woman in tunic and scarf, with blushing gentleman standing behind her
The Motor Picture Book, And Away She Goes! Date: 1930
The Motor Picture Book, Just a Sharp Turn Date: 1930
4th Gordon Bennett Trophy, Chas Jarrott starting4th Gordon Bennett Trophy, Chas Jarrott (Napier for Britain) starting, later crashed. Date: 2nd July 1903
4th Gordon Bennett Trophy, showing Gabriel starting 64th Gordon Bennett Trophy, showing Gabriel (representing France) starting 6. Date: 2nd July 1903
An avenue in the West of Madrid after bombardment by the Nationalist airforce and artillery, November 1936. A barricade made of cobbles and bricks can be seen on the right of the photograph
Trolls are malicious, and will start an avalanche just for the fun of it. Date: 1895
Comic postcard, Man en route to Coronation Date: 20th century
Underground railway, Waterloo and City Line opening LondonUnderground railway, Waterloo and City Line opening, London. Starting from Waterloo, a driver working the motor, the entrance to one of the iron tunnels. Date: 1898
Underground railway construction, Lord Mayor of London 1881Underground railway construction, the Lord Mayor of London commencing works for the extension of the Inner Circle railway. Date: 1881
The hour and the man - James Braid carries starting clockThe hour and the man - photo of golfer James Braid carrying the starting clock to the tee during the English Ladies golf championship at Walton Heath 1928
Start of a Brooklands Double-Twelve Race with drivers and mechanics running to their machines. 20th century